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Rivalry between the two South American teams entered in this year's Open Polo Championship was a shade more than friendly. The Santa Paula Team, which won the Pacific Coast Open in 1930, arrived first, played at Chicago and Detroit this summer. The Anglo-Argentine Hurlingham team got to Westbury, N. Y. just in time to steal some of Santa Paula's thunder. If they played brilliantly in the Open, their accomplishments might have affected the enthusiasm with which U. S. buyers would bid for the spare-limbed, light-footed, cattle-trained ponies Santa Paula had brought with...
...when she can get off to the country, for during these three days she will find her hands full with taking her nephew to teashops, grill-rooms, music halls. After the last ball has been bowled at Lord's, she will chaperone at the Eton-Harrow dance at Hurlingham, and Monday send the "nipper" back to school, along with the other small Etonians (under 5 ft. 4 in.) in toppers and truncated jacket, large Etonians in toppers and morning coats; small Harrovians in jackets and straw "boaters," large Harrovians in tails and that same straw headgear which the school...
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...