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...four U. S. men in white, four Englishmen in red and blue. They scampered across the turf on their ponies, hitting the ball for practice. Soon they lined up. J. Watson Webb, No. 1 and spearhead of the U. S. attack nearest the ball; a little behind him Thomas Hitchcock Jr., and Malcolm Stevenson; behind them and nearer the white goal posts where the magic carpet ends Devereux Milburn, grey veteran of every International match since 1909, U. S. captain. Opposite were Major Austin H. Williams, Capt. C. T. I. Roark and Capt. Claude E. Pert, British No. 1, unconventionally...
...stern magic of sport thundered across the carpet and the little men on horses waved their bamboo wands. The wand of Thomas Hitchcock waved, and for the first time the goal of Major Atkinson was crossed for a score. The U. S. was leading. Stevenson waved his wand, and the U. S. was ahead by two. Britain rallied, fighting across the carpet toward the U. S. goal. They attacked, missed, attacked and missed again. Then Hitchcock waved his wand again and the score was 3-0. From that moment the event was no longer a contest; the magic...
Major Atkinson's wand worked one through for Britain; and again Hitchcock swept in to score. As the fourth period opened, this same Hitchcock drew back his wand with headstrong determination and struck the willow ball. It rose like a golf ball for a midiron over the heads of the players, bounced, bounded through the posts over 100 yards away. Webb scored, Hitchcock scored, Milburn (against whose play at back the British at tack had foamed and fallen like a wave) scored twice; Hitchcock scored, Webb scored twice; Roark scored a second goal for Britain. Webb scored; Pert scored...
History. In 1886 the Westchester Polo Club of Newport and the Hurlingham Club, centre of English polo, had a private argument. Polo at that time was unnoticed in the U. S. A handful of sportsmen, including Thomas Hitchcock Sr., "picked up a team" and were soundly trounced by the better trained and better mounted Britons. For 14 years polo continued unnoticed. In 1900 a group of U. S. citizens residing abroad picked up a team and played & lost a single game to the British. Two years later international polo really started when a team headed by Foxhall Keene of Philadelphia...
...active woman player has been Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, mother of the brilliant Tommy Hitchcock, No. 2 on the U. S. team...