Monday, Feb. 02, 1931

Polo Ranking

In the New York Racquet & Tennis Club last week the United States Polo Association held its annual meeting, attended to routine business and, specifically, to the delicate question of handicaps. They raised the two able Texans who played in the East last summer-- Cecil Smith from seven goals to eight, Rube Williams from six to seven. Beside Williams, three other players were raised to seven: Robert Strawbridge Jr., Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford of the open-champion Hurricanes, and Stewart Iglehart of the young Old Aikens. In the great first flight of polo--the internationalists--they left Thomas Hitchcock Jr. at the highest possible rating of ten goals, raised to nine goals his teammates, long thin Winston Guest of Long Island and stocky, long-driving Eric Pedley of California. Only surprise: what happened to the Hoppings, Earle Sr. and Jr. Young Earle, although a member of the winning international team, was left at his old handicap of eight. Old Earle was reduced from seven to six.

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