Word: pedley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Citroen, Argentine-bred chestnut polo pony owned by Robert Lehman and ridden in the international matches last week by Eric Pedley: first prize in the annual show of the National Polo Pony Society at the Meadow Brook Club (Westbury...
...Hurricanes (Stephen Sanford, Eric Pedley, Capt. C. T. I. Roark, Robert E. Strawbridge Jr.): the U. S. Open Polo Championship at Meadow Brook, coming from behind with four goals in a row to beat Winston Guest and his Templetons...
...position and Guinness had been playing splendidly. Also, the Englishmen were saying that this time they knew they were not outmounted-they had brought along better ponies than any previous British team. On the American side nothing sensational had happened. Five-foot one-inch, 175-lb. Eric Pedley of California had made No. 1 as everyone expected him to-the first westerner to get on an international team. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. was at No. 3 where he could not be expected to make as many goals as he used to at No. 2 but where he could feed Pedley...
...Englishmen made it hard. Lacey's Argentine ponies outran the bigger U. S. mounts for a while; first Guest, then Roark and Hitchcock broke mallets. Lacey stole the ball from Hopping and Hitchcock for beautiful shots. What the English team lacked most was an accurate goal shooter like Pedley. Consistently the ball was fed to Balding at No. 1, but under pressure, Balding's shots were sliced, sometimes missed entirely. In the last periods the U. S. team put on speed while their opponents tired; Hopping banged in a 60-yd. drive; Hitchcock got in a long...
...need to hit far-his job is to take a long pass and run it in with an accurate short one. Bostwick, wonderful in the saddle, hits very straight. Elmer Boeseke of California might get on at No. 2 because he works so well with his fellow-Californian, Pedley. Pedley was playing the flashiest game of his life, averaging almost as much distance as Hitchcock on his full-hit shots, often scoring more goals than all the other men on his side put together...