Word: pete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started. Then, with Tommy Hitchcock at No. 2 playing as well as he did before injuries the past two years made it look as if his polo days were over, Jock Whitney's team began to show its class (TIME, Sept. 23). Little George H. (''Pete") Bostwick, at No. 1, missed half a dozen shots at the goal but he counted with three others. Gerald Balding, at No. 2, had a hard time turning the speedy Aurora attack but he got away for two goals and Whitney made another which put Greentree ahead...
...Field to Seymour Knox's Aurora, champions in 1933. Two days later, Aurora nosed out the Hurricanes 11-to-10, for a place in the final against Greentree. Greentree, Jock Whitney's team, has never won the Open but this year, ahead of Whitney at Back, are Pete Bostwick, Gerald Balding and Tommy Hitchcock. They got into the final by beating Templeton, champions last year and warm favorites to retain their title, 10-to-9, at Meadow Brook when, with the score tied in the last chukker, Bostwick. on his speedy Mio Mio, picked up a long...
...excitement of having a British team campaigning on Long Island has been the major polo interest of the season, the doings of young Pete Bostwick on and off the field have run a close second. Last year, Bostwick, whose diminutive size had aided him to become generally rated the world's ablest amateur jockey, decided to give up racing in favor of a game which his other interests had kept him too busy to play seriously since he was 10. Promptly and characteristically, he concluded that if polo was good enough for him to play, it was good enough...
Bankster Neidecker's arrival in the U. S. last week was more harassing than his departure from France. Slipping quietly from his ship, he sought refuge in Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, where he registered as "Peter" Neidecker. (His French friends always called him "Pete.") Reporters reaching him by telephone last week asked bluntly whether he was the missing Paris banker. "Why, absolutely not!" said he. Who was he, then? He was a brother. Reminded that he had only two brothers neither named Peter, he explained pleasantly: "Strange, strange-apparently there are others...
Died. John Joseph Bernet,, 67, president of the Van Sweringens' Chesapeake & Ohio (TIME, July 8), Pete Marquette and Nickel Plate R. R., onetime telegrapher, self-made son of a Swiss immigrant blacksmith; after brief illness; in Cleveland...