Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riding in a drag hunt near her estate at Aiken, S. C. was U. S. polo's gallant, white-haired Matriarch Louise Eustis Hitchcock, 68, mother of "Tommy" Hitchcock Jr., longtime No. i U. S. poloist, aunt of George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, No. 1 U. S. steeplechaser. Hot on the trail of her baying beagles. Matriarch Hitchcock urged her mount to a stiff hurdle, was catapulted to earth when it faltered and fell. Fully conscious, she was carried to her home, where doctors found that two broken neck vertebrae had partly paralyzed her right arm, completely paralyzed her right...
...John Daniel Hertz is keen, amiable, modest but, in a business tussle, a ferocious fighter. It bothers him not a whit that on a polo field in his heavy tortoise-shell spectacles, with his helmet snugly strapped under his big chin, and seated in a curious grey, woolly saddle, he cuts a strange figure. When he misses a shot, which is often, he always shouts...
...France in 1916. Mr. &; Mrs. Prince gave $200,000 to the Washington National Cathedral for a memorial chapel where their son's body now lies (TIME, April 29, 1929). Frederick Henry Prince at 74 is stocky, white-thatched and still vigorous enough to play a hard game of polo on his 1,000-acre estate near smart Prides Crossing. Since the Depression he has emerged from "Princemere" (where champagne is always served for lunch, tea and dinner), to buy at bargain levels the big yacht Weetamoe and Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont's $2,000,000 "Marble Palace...
Marked by hard hitting, fast riding, and fast scoring, the opening Varsity polo game with Albert C. Burrage's Candlewood trio at the Commonwealth Armory Saturday evening was won by that team...
Captained by Thomas J. Davis, Jr. '35, and including veteran malletmen William C. McGuckin '34, and Henry A. Gerry '36, the Harvard polo team will ride against the Candlewood trio this evening at 8 o'clock in the Commonwealth Armory. Preceding this game the Jayvee contingent is to play the 110th Cavalry...