Sport: Open Polo

The Greentree polo team is named for the Long Island estate of John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, who has been trying for five years to win the National Open Championship. To help him at Meadow Brook last week, he had Cecil Calvert Smith, the hard-riding Texas cowboy who was called the greatest player of the year after the West beat the East at Chicago last August (TIME, Aug. 21, 28); and two of the Balding brothers, Gerald and Ivor, who come from England to the U. S. for every polo season.

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