Word: hurlingham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...Britishers debarked from the S. S. Minnetonka from London, were propelled by motor to the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club in Rye, N. Y. They had come, via London, from India, where they are officers in the British Army. It was to them that Great Britain's polo organization, Hurlingham, had assigned the task of winning the Westchester cup, emblematic of international championship. Since 1921 it has rested...
...Hurlingham Club has the honor hereby to challenge the Polo Association of America for the international polo challenge cup, known as the Westchester...
Louis E. Stoddard, Chairman of the United States Polo Association, denied yesterday that arrangements had been completed for the visit of a polo team of Indians to this country in 1927, as was reported by cable from London. The report stated that the Indian team would represent the Hurlingham Club of London, and would play a team from the Meadow Brook Club here for the Westchester Cup, the famous International Polo trophy...
Informal discussions leading to a formal challenge have already been begun between the Hurlingham Polo Committee in England and the United States Polo Association here, said Mr. Stoddard. So far, however, nothing definite has been decided upon...