Word: poloists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Devereux Milburn, 61, rated for some 20 years the world's greatest polo player; of a heart attack; in Westbury,L.I. A poloist from the age of 14, he transformed what had been a short-passing, easygoing game into the hard-riding, hard-hitting polo that satisfied the most excitement-hungry; the style of play that brought the International Challenge Polo Trophy to the U.S. from England for the first time in 1909-the first year he played on an international team. He played on all the U.S. international teams from that year through 1927, and lost only...
...Winston Churchill came to Washington to sell just that bill of goods. And yet it began to be realized in London last week that the Churchill Government has mishandled affairs in the Orient. The Prime Minister himself knows little of the subject except what he learned as an enthusiastic poloist in a Punjab regiment in Kipling's India. A Cabinet shake-up was demanded...
Died. Foxhall Parker Keene, 74, onetime leading U.S. poloist, member of the first U.S. international polo team in 1886; at Ayer's Cliff, Quebec...
Died. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., 80, captain of the first U.S. International polo team, trainer of great steeplechase jumpers, hunters, polo ponies, father of famed poloist Thomas Hitchcock Jr.; of coronary thrombosis; in Old Westbury...
...born 57 years ago, in Nashville, Tenn. He went from West Point (1902-06) into the Cavalry, has never regretted the eleven years of sound grounding in Army principles which he got in that service. In the best Cavalry tradition, he was a proficient poloist. He married a girl who was also a poloist and who actually played on Army teams: Jeannette ("Johnnie") Allen, daughter of the late Major General Henry T. Allen, who commanded the U.S. Army of Occupation in Germany after World...