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Tommy Hitchcock retired from competitive polo after 1939. He had been spending a 9-to-4:30 day as a partner of the investment-banking firm of Lehman Brothers. He commuted between Wall Street and his Long Island home by seaplane, thus could squeeze in a late game of polo after a day at the office. He kept in shape by getting up around dawn and boxing with his trainer, sometimes doing a little roadwork and some vigorous calisthenics. In London he was still keeping in shape—he hustled out of his flat and dog-trotted around Grosvenor Square every morning.
Polo's great Devereux Milburn, who knew him for 20-odd years, said of him: "I've never seen him play a bad game."