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The part played by Mrs. Hitchcock in developing polo players is without parallel. The new junior champions—who went undefeated through 1927, won the Meadowbrook and Hempstead Cups last year and this year defeated Winston Guest's freebooters for the Westbury Cup—are all graduates of the Meadow Larks, a training school organized by her with experts like Devereaux Milburn and Malcolm Stevenson supervising and refereeing. Internationalist Guest was once a Meadow Lark. Some, and perhaps all of the present Old Aikens will doubtless become Internationalists. "Schooling" for polo means learning horsemanship with and without a mallet. It means, as taught by Mrs. Hitchcock, even beginning on foot, to learn the rudiments of team play. The second step is bicycle polo, then ponies. Thus may able poloists be developed young. The Old Aikens still average under voting age. Their captain's mother, Mrs. D. Stewart Iglehart Sr., started another preliminary school five years ago at old Westbury called the Sparrowhawks, composed of famed players' young sons.