Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawing rooms and porches of leafy Lake Forest, Ill. talked of nothing but polo last week and eight thick-wristed, sunburned guests-of-honor had lots to say to each other when they met. Week before, the four best players that swanky Eastern polo could produce had been ridden groggy by a hard-hitting, hell-for-leather Western four, beaten in the first of three games, 15 to 11 (TIME, Aug. 21). Since he became a 10-goal player in 1922 the East's Captain Thomas Hitchcock had never been challenged on a field as the West...
...close-cropped field, Raymond Guest was still in the East's lineup, but in Michael Phipps's stead was a burly, baldish fellow with a fringe of red hair and a bright red helmet. This Was another scion of one of the East's great socialite polo families, Earle A. S. ("Young Earle") Hopping, 199 lb., a cool, rough-riding player who helped beat Argentina in 1928. He went in at No. 2 while Hitchcock moved to No. 3, Winston Guest...
...Picked as U. S. Minister to Austria, today's hot spot of Central Europe, was George Hansell Earle Jr., polo-playing Philadelphia socialite. A onetime Republican, he supported Franklin Roosevelt last year. His appointment, first diplomatic patronage to go to Pennsylvania, had the endorsement of Joe Guffey, the State's Democratic boss. After his Harvard graduation (1913) Mr. Earle roamed Germany and Austria for two years, served in the Navy during the War, is now vice president of Pennsylvania Sugar Co., a director of the Philadelphia Record. Dark, handsome, husky, he lives with his wife and four children...
...Louis Southwestern. When he sold it in 1925 to the Rock Island (which was later forced by the I. C. C. to turn it over to the Kansas City Southern) the last Gould railroad disappeared from the map. Meantime he had led a quiet, model life -played polo in his youth, joined Troop A of New York's socialite 71st regiment, risen from private to captain, become an ardent marksman. (During the War. although already in military retirement, he volunteered, became a supply sergeant, later a major in the Ordnance Department.) He married Sarah Cantine Shrady, daughter...
After the week spent in turning back the rugged forces of Yale, Army, and Pennsylvania Military College, the Harvard and Princeton polo teams have earned the right to vie for the intercollegiate polo title, which will be decided tomorrow at Rye, New York. Although the Crimson teams have won this championship twice before, the Tigers have never come through in the finals, save unofficially...