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...stone terrace and colonial portico of Piping Rock Club (see map, p. 25), test matches between candidates for the U. S. team went on with much earnestness. People watching from cars parked along the sideboards were increasingly numerous and interested. The matches with England, to be played at Meadow Brook-climax not only of this season but of three years of polo preparation-were only three weeks...
This trio were original Meadow Larks, as Meadow Brook's younger generation has since been called. They started playing...
...Hitchcock, F. S. Skiddy von Stade Sr. and other fathers and an occasional mother played against the Meadow-Larks. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. grew up and went to War. For a while there were no Meadow Larks. Then the second Hitchcock boy, Francis ("Frankie"), was big enough to start.* When he was going to school in Aiken, S. C. his mother sent him mallets and balls enough for two teams. They played on bicycles on a red clay field. Later Frankie had a hard fall that ended his riding for the time, but the boys who had played with him, still...
Boys are always playing polo on the Hitchcock field. Even during the juvenile depopulation that falls upon Long Island in August because mothers mysteriously believe this to be an unhealthy season, young candidates for next year's Meadow Lark Club are being watched by Mrs. Hitchcock and coached by a onetime British cavalry sergeant named Gaylord. On the present squad, potential internationalists of the future, are Skiddy von Stade Jr., Julian Peabody Jr. (a Hitchcock grandson), Devereux Milburn Jr., Jack Milburn, David Dows Jr., Jimmy Curtis, Marshall Field Jr., Coolidge Chapin, Charlie von Stade, Jack Windmill, Nelson Brown, Scott...
...MEADOW...