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...lunch, they suggest "going over to see the polo." The actual team this year will not be picked until the night before the first game, but the men on it will be chosen from the "Red" and "White" teams which confront each other as tentative units, constantly rearranged. Thomas Hitchcock Jr., captain of the U. S. team and chairman of the Defense Committee, had made clear that he would not consider anyone as trying out for a specific position. His purpose in the test matches was to arrive at combinations that worked well and to pick from them one supreme...
...with an accurate short one. Bostwick, wonderful in the saddle, hits very straight. Elmer Boeseke of California might get on at No. 2 because he works so well with his fellow-Californian, Pedley. Pedley was playing the flashiest game of his life, averaging almost as much distance as Hitchcock on his full-hit shots, often scoring more goals than all the other men on his side put together...
Last week at its mid-season meeting the U. S. Polo Association's handicap committee issued an important demotion and an important accolade. To Winston F. C. Guest, hard-riding No. 2, next to Thomas Hitchcock Jr. the longest hitter in the game, fell the demotion-reduction of his handicap from nine goals to eight. Always erratic, Guest has been expected to have poor afternoons, but this year in trial matches among contestants for the International team his poor afternoons have come oftener than before, his streaks of brilliant scoring more seldom. Critics who had considered him sure...
Last week a new member was appointed to the defense committee of the U. S. Polo Association-Thomas Hitchcock Sr. His famed son, Thomas Jr., captain of the yet unpicked international team and chief of the defense committee, asked his father to help him because they get on well together and because Thomas Hitchcock Sr. is good at the sort of thing he will do for the committee. Every committeeman has some special job. Mr. Hitchcock Sr.'s will be to train the association's ponies. Carleton Burke, California poloist, was going to attend to this, but found...
Head of the foremost polo family in the world, Thomas Hitchcock Sr. was one of the sporting, rich and able-bodied young men of 1886 who got up the first U. S. international team, played a match with the English at Newport, were soundly beaten. He married Louise Eustis whose interest (and ability) in polo has become celebrated through her coaching of youngsters at Aiken, S. C. and at Westbury (TIME, Oct. 8). Soon the association's 17 ponies will be moved, in the padded, glistening trucks which Long Island people call "horse-vans," from Mitchell Field...