Word: jocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney and Winston Guest of Long Island with Eric Pedley and Elmer J. Boeseka Jr. of California prevented the college-boy Old Aikens, green-shirted national junior champions (TIME, Aug. 5), from becoming the year's outstanding U. S. polo team. by galloping through them, 18 goals to 8, in the final of the Waterbury Cup matches at Meadow Brook. Both teams were put out early in the open championship, won last fortnight by Irish Captain C. T. I. Roark's four...
...eight teams entered in the tournament, there soon predominated: The Greentrees-a Long Island four with James C. Cooley, oldtimer, at No. 2 and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney at No. 3. The Midwests-with W. Seymour ("Shorty") Knox of Buffalo at No. 1, Barney Balding and William Blair of Chicago in the middle, Nelson Talbott of the poloing Dayton, Ohio, Talbotts at Back. The Old Aikens-the college team, three parts Yale, one part Harvard. They have played together for years. Their first teacher was Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., mother and coach of Internationalist Hitchcock. Her younger son, Frank Hitchcock...
Americans owned eleven of the horses which made the first charge. Among them was the favorite, Easter Hero, 9 to 1, from the stable of John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Easter Hero carried 175 pounds. Shortly after the start he swung gracefully into the lead. Over Becher's Brook, over Valentine's Brook, around the treacherous canal turn he swung, taking the leaps with daring ease. On and on to what seemed to be sure victory. But the turf was soggy from two days of rain. The field crept closer and closer. At the last hedge but one, Easter...
...head for the places where their favorite professionals hold forth. At Pinehurst are Donald and Alec Ross; at Augusta, Dave and Alec Ogilvie; at Belleair, Alex Smith. Gene Sarazen is at New Port Ritchey, Fla. At Miami Beach is Willie Klein; at St. Augustine, National Open Champion Johnny Farrell. Jock Hutchison is still a fixture at Nassau in the offshore Bahamas...
Pierre Etchebaster, a Basque from St. Jean de Luz and the Jeu de Paume of Paris, beat the best court tennis players in the U. S. last week in Philadelphia. Jock Soutar, Britisher, met him in the finals for the national championship in the Racquet Club of Philadelphia...