Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in the mild continuous fete that constitutes summer life on Long Island, one activity gained increasing importance. Many incidents bespoke it. A stalwart, bronzed gentleman arrived in Manhattan on the Mauretania-Gerald Balding, contender for No. 2 on the English international polo team. He was a little ahead of his teammates, but they were starting too. Their 67 ponies were on the way over on the S. S. Minnetonka. Another foreign team, an extraordinary one made up of four brothers Ashton from Australia-Philip, Geoffrey, James, Robert-all about the same size, closely resembling each other, ranked...
...test matches that Long Islanders mean when, after lunch, they suggest "going over to see the polo." The actual team this year will not be picked until the night before the first game, but the men on it will be chosen from the "Red" and "White" teams which confront each other as tentative units, constantly rearranged. Thomas Hitchcock Jr., captain of the U. S. team and chairman of the Defense Committee, had made clear that he would not consider anyone as trying out for a specific position. His purpose in the test matches was to arrive at combinations that worked...
This year's will be the first International team since 1909 to go into action without the iron-wristed centaur-rider, Devereux Milburn. The polo feudality that was once built around Milburn now centres about Hitchcock. More, it centres about three Hitchcocks-the son who is captain, the father whose duties on the Defense Committee are to see that the ponies are properly trained and stabled; and the mother, polo's matriarch, the captain's teacher, a word from whom at the dinner table might well settle a point in strategy, even a contested place...
Boys are always playing polo on the Hitchcock field. Even during the juvenile depopulation that falls upon Long Island in August because mothers mysteriously believe this to be an unhealthy season, young candidates for next year's Meadow Lark Club are being watched by Mrs. Hitchcock and coached by a onetime British cavalry sergeant named Gaylord. On the present squad, potential internationalists of the future, are Skiddy von Stade Jr., Julian Peabody Jr. (a Hitchcock grandson), Devereux Milburn Jr., Jack Milburn, David Dows Jr., Jimmy Curtis, Marshall Field Jr., Coolidge Chapin, Charlie von Stade, Jack Windmill, Nelson Brown, Scott...
...fast, accurate U. S. Army team: the National Junior Polo championship, beating Whippany River 17 to 7 in the final; at Rumson...