Word: polo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Iowa, and $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 of Des Moines real estate. Connecticut-born, lawyer-trained Frederick Marion Hubbells, 90, is head of the family. He acts as chairman of the insurance company. Two much younger Hubbells, Fred and Jim, financed and starred on the Des Moines polo team for several years...
Divorced. Mrs. Kitty Lanier Lawrence Harriman; from William Averell Harriman, 37, able son of an able father, the late Edward Henry Harriman; in Paris. Graduated from Yale in 1913, Mr. Harriman was married in 1915, has two daughters, is strenuous in business and polo...
...polo, a "junior" is a player handicapped at six goals or less; a "junior" team has 20 goals or less. '"Juniors" may be anywhere from schoolboys to grandfathers. The best juniors of the year turned out to be four college youths, captained by a sophomore...
...that point that something happened, something perhaps internationally significant. Polo is usually a game of brilliant individuals. The young Old Aikens rely on perfect team-play. Riding into the fifth chukker against the Greentrees they opened a team attack of such dash and precision that they scored five times without giving the Greentrees another goal. Captain Iglehart tied the score on a free shot just before the final gong. In the extra period he smacked another one through. The Midwests, able individualists though they were, could make no headway at all against the Old Aiken system of feeding, riding...
...part played by Mrs. Hitchcock in developing polo players is without parallel. The new junior champions-who went undefeated through 1927, won the Meadowbrook and Hempstead Cups last year and this year defeated Winston Guest's freebooters for the Westbury Cup-are all graduates of the Meadow Larks, a training school organized by her with experts like Devereaux Milburn and Malcolm Stevenson supervising and refereeing. Internationalist Guest was once a Meadow Lark. Some, and perhaps all of the present Old Aikens will doubtless become Internationalists. "Schooling" for polo means learning horsemanship with and without a mallet. It means...