Hitchcock Sr.

Last week a new member was appointed to the defense committee of the U. S. Polo Association--Thomas Hitchcock Sr. His famed son, Thomas Jr., captain of the yet unpicked international team and chief of the defense committee, asked his father to help him because they get on well together and because Thomas Hitchcock Sr. is good at the sort of thing he will do for the committee. Every committeeman has some special job. Mr. Hitchcock Sr.'s will be to train the association's ponies. Carleton Burke, California poloist, was going to attend to this, but found he could not go east until August. This is the first year that the U. S. Polo Association has owned a decent stable. In past years some of the ponies were lent to the Association after the team was picked, but this year the Association needed its own ponies because it is not going to pick the international team until the night before the first match.

Head of the foremost polo family in the world, Thomas Hitchcock Sr. was one of the sporting, rich and able-bodied young men of 1886 who got up the first U. S. international team, played a match with the English at Newport, were soundly beaten. He married Louise Eustis whose interest (and ability) in polo has become celebrated through her coaching of youngsters at Aiken, S. C. and at Westbury (TIME, Oct. 8). Soon the association's 17 ponies will be moved, in the padded, glistening trucks which Long Island people call "horse-vans," from Mitchell Field, L. I. to Westbury, where the new committeeman will look them over.

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