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...foremost U. S. racing family, the Whitneys, is appropriate. Dorothy Paget's father. Lord Queenborough, met her mother, Pauline Whitney, when he had a ranch in the U. S. Pauline Whitney's father, William Collins Whitney, was Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland. John Hay ("Jock" ) Whitney, who has not missed a Grand National in six years and who had better luck than usual when his Thomond II finished third last week, is William Collins Whitney's grandson. Delaneige, who led the field most of the way, is owned by John B. Snow, merchandise manager...
...more, no less. The companies are Texas Sulphur, which accounts for two-thirds of the production, and Freeport Texas, the principal deposits of which are at present not in Texas but in Louisiana. Last week Freeport Texas completed a four-year internal reorganization. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, sportsman son of the late Payne Whitney, was made Freeport's board chairman. Jock Whitney graduated from Yale in 1926 and by the time he finally went to work as a buzzer boy in Lee, Higginson & Co. in Manhattan he was already a director of Great Northern Paper. While answering the buzzer...
...lady jockeys were socialite maids and matrons, counterparts of gentleman jockeys but much less experienced in competitive riding. Two, Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney and Mrs. John Frank lin, rode their own mounts. The others had been invited to ride by horse-owning friends whose silks they wore. Bookmakers found their early favorite in extremely horsey Mrs. "Jock" Whitney, although to make it more of a race she had refrained from entering one of her swiftest mounts. Then it was revealed that beauteous Mrs. "Sonny" Whitney would ride Halcyon, and Mrs. Rigan Mc-Kinney "Pete" Bostwick's Pompeius - both...
...Seymour ("Shorty") Knox's open championship Aurora polo team: the Monty Waterbury Memorial Cup. from "Jock" Whitney's Greentrees, 12-to-9; at Meadow Brook Club, Westbury...
...Greentree polo team is named for the Long Island estate of John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, who has been trying for five years to win the National Open Championship. To help him at Meadow Brook last week, he had Cecil Calvert Smith, the hard-riding Texas cowboy who was called the greatest player of the year after the West beat the East at Chicago last August (TIME, Aug. 21, 28); and two of the Balding brothers, Gerald and Ivor, who come from England to the U. S. for every polo season...