Word: onwentsia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...founder of Cudahy Packing Co., to buy him a little chestnut race horse from a man who owed a feed bill of $170 and wanted to sell the horse for the bill. This summer, 14-year-old "Bob" Cudahy marked out a quarter-mile track on the Onwentsia Club polo field, had the family chauffeur hold a clock while he rode his horse around it. Later he sent the horse to the racing stable of one of his father's friends, had the trainer let a jockey exercise him. Because in his nine previous starts he had never done...
When they rode out on Onwentsia's close-cropped field, Raymond Guest was still in the East's lineup, but in Michael Phipps's stead was a burly, baldish fellow with a fringe of red hair and a bright red helmet. This Was another scion of one of the East's great socialite polo families, Earle A. S. ("Young Earle") Hopping, 199 lb., a cool, rough-riding player who helped beat Argentina in 1928. He went in at No. 2 while Hitchcock moved to No. 3, Winston Guest...
...Onwentsia Club, Lake Forest, Ill., Mrs. Edward Foster Swift, relict of the meat packer, gave a Swift family golf tournament, for married members only. Husbands & wives played together. Play was over nine holes; each pair was allowed a handicap, combined net score only to count. Couples paid $10 to play, $20 not to play. Among the entries were the Theodore Philip Swifts, the Edward Swift Juniors, the Charles Henry Swifts. The George Swifts, the Charles Henry Swifts did not play, paid their $20 fines. Prizes were $30 in cash, a silver...
...opening of Chicago's Onwentsia Hunt, James Simpson Jr., son of the board chairman of Marshall Field & Co., fell, broke...
...first big issue contained an article by Editor Peter Vischer of Polo (which Publisher Quigley used to own) on Chicago's exciting fortnight of international polo at Onwentsia (TIME, July 20). Other contributors were talent mustered from around the town. Arthur Meeker Jr., arty son of one of the best families, wrote rather harshly about having to stay in Illinois in the summertime. William C. Boyden, Harvardman, literary lawyer, did a comic piece about actors and actresses he had known. He used to be theatre critic for the earlier Chicagoan. Another old contributor-Durand Smith, Oxonian, Lake Forest socialite...