Word: milburn
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Outside your magazine you print the picture of a benevolent, timidly smiling, white-haired gentleman. Inside your magazine you print the story of Devereux Milburn, aggressive, hard riding, cyclonic captain of the U. S. Polo Team. Which is which? I have seen Milburn, talked to him; watched him play. As a rabid polo fan and a strenuously American citizen I resent your artist, S. J. Woolf's drawing. I enclose a copy of a drawing printed in Polo, which translates the indomitable power of the real Milburn into black and white lines on paper. P. L. FINK...
...Milburn is truly an intimidating figure when wrought up in a polo game. TIME, abhorring single-sided presentation, wrote about him thus; printed a drawing of him in one of his milder, but no less characteristic moments. Herewith is the drawing (by famed Hugo Gellert) from Polo...
...mare, Rosita, is the property of Major H. H. Raj Rajeshwar Saramad Rajhai-Hindustan Maharaja Dhirej Sri Sir Ummaid Singh-ji Sahib Bahadur of Jodpur, is the British star. Gargantilla, spectacularly marked veteran of the last series from the Whitney stables, will be among those under Milburn...
...first game and lost the next two. Soon Harry Payne Whitney took a hand. This famed sportsman opened a thor- ough preparatory drive to beat Britain, selected his team, schooled his ponies over a period of years. In 1909 the "Big Four," Whitney, Monty and Larry Waterbury, and Milburn, sailed for England and drubbed Britain, in two straight games. Since then there have been five challenges, and four of them have been won by the U. S. Just before the red shadow of war darkened all sport, the English four took the title back to England where it remained until...
...advice of H. H. the Maharajah of Rutlam, himself a keen, able player, who travels with the officers as companion, enthusiast, patron. Most prominently mentioned among those who may be selected by the U. S. Polo Association to represent the U. S. next September are Thomas Hitchcock Jr., Devereux Milburn, Louis E. Stoddard, J. Watson Webb, Malcolm Stevenson, J. Cheever Cowdin, Earle W. Hopping and Robert E. Strawbridge...