Word: milburn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John George Milburn, 78, Manhattan lawyer, counsel for the New York Stock Exchange, onetime defender of trusts (old Standard Oil, Union Pacific R.R.), president of Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition (1901), father of famed Poloist Devereux Milburn; three weeks after the death of his wife, Mary Stocking Milburn; in London. When President McKinley was shot by Assassin Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo on Sept. 6, 1901, it was to the Milburn home that he was carried, there that he died one week later...
This year's will be the first International team since 1909 to go into action without the iron-wristed centaur-rider, Devereux Milburn. The polo feudality that was once built around Milburn now centres about Hitchcock. More, it centres about three Hitchcocks-the son who is captain, the father whose duties on the Defense Committee are to see that the ponies are properly trained and stabled; and the mother, polo's matriarch, the captain's teacher, a word from whom at the dinner table might well settle a point in strategy, even a contested place...
...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 Truesdale and the Gerry twins. On the international squad itself are six onetime Meadow Larks: J. C. Rathborne, Stewart Iglehart, J. P. Mills, Pete Bostwick, Winston Guest, Earle Hopping...
...team will be picked from a national rather than an exclusively Meadow Brook squad is a salute to the British. After repeated defeats the British have accepted the introduction of hard-riding, bumping, slashing and swatting to the "gentleman's game." Particularly they have tried to develop the Milburn-Hitch-cock style of tremendous hitting...
...Milburn, N. J., Anton Boslavage, going up hill in his 15-ton steamroller, pulled the wrong lever. The roller rolled backward down the hill, got going faster and faster, reached town at 45 m. p. h., crushed two automobiles, broke a sidewalk, knocked the corner off a building, tossed Anton Boslavage, rolled over on its side...