Word: polos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ALICE GREEN SCHRYVER Polo...
...Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Society will hold its annual spring pep rally tonight. The card will feature an eight man free-for-all bout between four rabid copy-boys for PM and Princeton's 1944 polo team. Vag will referee. High tea and blintzes will be served between rounds and shillelaghs may be checked at the door. No cover, no minimum...
...Several months later, Colonel Robertson arrived to take command of the base. A West Pointer, he had been wounded in World War I, retired, recalled for duty for World War II. An elegant disciplinarian, he liked to play polo with cinema people and rich orange growers...
Like an acrobat's child, Tommy Hitchcock was trained for his career almost from infancy. His father, Thomas Hitchcock Sr., was captain of the U.S.'s first international polo team (1886), later became the country's No. 1 steeplechase trainer. Tommy's mother was called "the Mother of American Polo." She was Louise Eustis Hitchcock, daughter of James Biddie Eustis, Grover Cleveland's Ambassador to France. Prime mover in the horsy affairs of Aiken, S.C., she set Tommy in a saddle when he was three, started his polo training when he was five...
Tommy Hitchcock played competitive polo for 23 years and was a ten-goal man for 16 of them-the greatest polo feat of all time. With Devereux Milburn, he accelerated the game. He turned what had traditionally been a defensive position (No. 3) into an aggressive one. He turned a short-passing game into a fast, hard, long-walloping one. He was a whirlwind at infighting, and probably the most powerful and accurate hitter of all time...