Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then came the men; four U. S. men in white, four Englishmen in red and blue. They scampered across the turf on their ponies, hitting the ball for practice. Soon they lined up. J. Watson Webb, No. 1 and spearhead of the U. S. attack nearest the ball; a little behind him Thomas Hitchcock Jr., and Malcolm Stevenson; behind them and nearer the white goal posts where the magic carpet ends Devereux Milburn, grey veteran of every International match since 1909, U. S. captain. Opposite were Major Austin H. Williams, Capt. C. T. I. Roark and Capt. Claude E. Pert...
...drubbed Britain, in two straight games. Since then there have been five challenges, and four of them have been won by the U. S. Just before the red shadow of war darkened all sport, the English four took the title back to England where it remained until Milburn, Hitchcock, Webb and Louis Stoddard regained it in 1921. International polo is not played every year. It involves too much preparation, too much expense. England challenged in 1924 and a team identical in personnel to that which will take the field this month won two straight games...
...Captain Matthew Webb, also of England, was first...
Died. Rutherford Platt Hayes, 69, son of the late U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, and brother of the President's only surviving son, Col. Webb C. Hayes, who still occupies the old family mansion in Fremont, Ohio; at Tampa, Fla.; after a lingering illness...
...Rutlam, himself a keen, able player, who travels with the officers as companion, enthusiast, patron. Most prominently mentioned among those who may be selected by the U. S. Polo Association to represent the U. S. next September are Thomas Hitchcock Jr., Devereux Milburn, Louis E. Stoddard, J. Watson Webb, Malcolm Stevenson, J. Cheever Cowdin, Earle W. Hopping and Robert E. Strawbridge...