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Last week a hot sun at Hurlingham blazed on the tenth subsequent U. S. v. England polo game, second in the fifth post-War series. In the first game fortnight ago, hard-riding Hesketh Hughes had led England to glorious defeat, 9 goals to 10. Last week Hughes scored the first goal of what British experts later called the most exciting polo game ever played on British soil. Thereafter, the U. S.'s lanky back, Winston Guest, kept Hughes bottled up, while Stewart Iglehart and Michael Phipps fed the ball to Eric Pedley at No. 1. In the last...
...rich patricians, it has lately become popular among cowboys in the Southwest, cinemagnates in California. Once watched by socialites only, New York polo matches in the last few years have drawn crowds as large as baseball games. Determined to make polo in England more profitable, London's swank Hurlingham Club last month made the brave gesture of announcing that it would open its grounds to the public for the Westchester Cup series against the U. S. Before play started, an announcement in the London Times reassured readers who might have thought grey toppers were essential: "Dress: lounge suits." Unfortunately...
...spent large portions of the last three years at Meadow Brook, Palm Beach and Del Monte. Poloist Balding learned his lesson so well that last year his handicap was raised to nine, only one less than famed Tommy Hitchcock, the world's only 10-goal player. Recalled to Hurlingham, Balding became with Tyrrell-Martin the nucleus of the British team. Last week, with Captain Humphrey Guinness behind Tyrrell-Martin at back and Hesketh Hughes ahead of Balding at No. 1, England rode out on international polo's soth anniversary to face the U. S. four of Eric Pedley...
...Hero of Hurlingham turned out to be Hesketh Hughes, a Welshman who learned his polo in the Argentine and looks like Golfer Gene Sarazen. A scrimmaging, scuffling, head-on player, with no finesse but prodigious determination, Hughes kept bunting shots past Winston Guest, who played at back as though he thought his opposing No. 1 were not worth bothering with. When, in the fourth chukker, chunky little Hughes poked the ball between the posts three times, England was only a goal behind. When Guinness scored again for England in the sixth, the score was tied at 7-all, and what...
...climax of the summer's rivalry be tween young men who have been living on Long Island and vying with each other at polo ever since they were old enough to pick up the rudiments of the world's most patrician pastime. On the same afternoon that Hurlingham was losing at Meadow Brook, Old Westbury was losing at nearby Bostwick Field to Seymour Knox's Aurora, champions in 1933. Two days later, Aurora nosed out the Hurricanes 11-to-10, for a place in the final against Greentree. Greentree, Jock Whitney's team, has never...