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First Star. Allen knew his Army. He returned to the cavalry. That service had many advantages: it was ideal for a practicing poloist, it was socially remunerative and it was a branch from which officers frequently moved to the top in other branches and in the Army at large...
First Blood. In June of 1918, 14 months after the U.S. entered World War I, Terry Allen was a captain, a passionate and accomplished poloist, a drinker and bachelor of considerable renown, a cavalryman without a war where horses were required. In that month he went to France, where he soon got his first infantry command. At a school for infantry officers in France. Allen arrived the day before a class was to graduate. He lined up with that class. Said the commandant, passing out certificates: "I don't remember you in this class...
Died. Lawrence Waterbury, 65, onetime ten-goal poloist; after three months' illness; in Palm Beach. He was the last surviving star of the great American team of Monty and Larry Waterbury, Harry Payne Whitney and the incomparable Devereux Milburn, first to win the International Cup from the British, winners of every game in the 1909, '11 and '13 matches. He was also three times national amateur racquets champion...
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...