Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against Threat Lacey, U. S. poloists rely on two mighty Bulwarks. At No. 3 will be Malcolm ("Mike") Stevenson, tried internationalist. And Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. will again play...
...news item. His cartoon in the form of a poster, showed a dog-faced gunman leaning on a World's Fair building which was labeled "100% American-Thompson Hall."* The smoke of the gunman's gun spelled: CHICAGO WELCOMES YOU! Other gangsters, disguised as fountains, were at play. In the background, the British Empire Exhibits were burning down...
...woman has the ability of Wills. Valiantly but with many an error Jacobs sped the ball toward her opponent's backcourt boundary, thereby failed to win from Wills the national women's singles championship. After the match Wills rested in the Forest Hills, L. I., clubhouse, resumed play. Paired with Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, she won the doubles title against Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper & Miss Edith Cross. Wills and Molla Bjurstedt Mallory are the only women who have won the singles title five or more times. Mallory won it seven times officially, an eighth time...
...near the Meadowbrook Club, center of U. S. polo, the slightest detail of international matches is made the subject of almost endless speculation. So important a detail as a postponement stirred unusually eager discussion. Would the added days give the U. S. four, new as a team to international play, a much-needed opportunity to work in W. Averell Harriman at No. 1, and to settle the contest for the No. 4 position? Every poloist loves and reveres the name of Devereaux Milburn, most famed No. 4 of all time. Meadowbrook fans had to scour their memories to recall...
...bred out of a family of polo-lovers. His mother, herself a player, has been friend and mentor of the Meadow Larks, a team which included young Tommy and Stevenson and many another youngster who now has an international rating. It was she who in 1921 polished the play of the 16-year-old Guest, then a raw but distinguished immigrant to the U. S. from England. Polo is in the Hitchcock blood. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. ranks with Devereaux Milburn and possibly Lewis Lacey as one of the two or three greatest of the polo great...