Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last decade, U. S. polo has experienced sweeping changes. Once practiced only by rich patricians, it has lately become popular among cowboys in the Southwest, cinemagnates in California. Once watched by socialites only, New York polo matches in the last few years have drawn crowds as large as baseball games. Determined to make polo in England more profitable, London's swank Hurlingham Club last month made the brave gesture of announcing that it would open its grounds to the public for the Westchester Cup series against the U. S. Before play started, an announcement in the London Times reassured...
Popularization is not the only department of the game in which British poloists would like to copy their U. S. rivals. They would also like to play as ably. When competition for the Westchester Cup began in 1886, ten years after polo was introduced in the U. S. by Publisher James Gordon Bennett, England won regularly. The famed "Big Four" of U. S. polo - Devereux Milburn, Harry Payne Whitney and the Waterbury brothers, Monty and Larry - turned the tide in 1909, won again in 1911 and 1913, without losing a game. The U. S. lost the Westchester...
...Tommy Hitchcock, the world's only 10-goal player. Recalled to Hurlingham, Balding became with Tyrrell-Martin the nucleus of the British team. Last week, with Captain Humphrey Guinness behind Tyrrell-Martin at back and Hesketh Hughes ahead of Balding at No. 1, England rode out on international polo's soth anniversary to face the U. S. four of Eric Pedley, Michael Phipps, Stewart Iglehart, Winston Guest...
Yesterday was Field Day for the class of 1911. When festivities wound up at Symphony Hall last night at 11 o'clock, it marked the end of a day which took in the Dedham Polo and Country Club, the Essex Country Club, and the Pops...
...polo game was held at the country club in the afternoon for those who cared while the main field events were held in the morning...