The year 1939 in polo was notable for the fact that the first International Polo Cup matches between Great Britain and the United States since 1936 and the first to be held in this country since 1930 were played in June. These matches, held at the Meadow Brook Club in Westbury, Long Island, were won by the United States team in two straight games in the two-out-of-three game series. Michael G. Phipps, Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., Stewart B. Iglehart and Winston Guest formed the American team, while Great Britain used Robert Skene, Aidan Roark, Gerald Balding and Eric Tyrrell-Martin.
The National Open Championship and Monty Waterbury Memorial Cup tournaments were held, once again, in September at Meadow Brook and the Open was won by the Bostwick Field team of George H. Bostwick, Robert L. Gerry, Jr., Elbridge T. Gerry and Eric H. Tyrrell-Martin. The Greentree team, consisting of J. Peter Grace, Jr., Robert Skene, Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., and John Hay Whitney, won the Waterbury Cup.
The National Twenty Goal Championship, which was formerly called the National Junior Championship, was won by the League of Nations team, while the National Inter-Circuit tournament, which brings the best medium goal teams from all over the country to a central point, was once again played at the Oak Brook Club just outside of Chicago and was won by the good Houston Huisache team from Texas. The National Twelve Goal tournament, held in conjunction with the Inter-Circuit, was won by the Pegasus Club of New Jersey.
On the whole it was a successful season, with the game following the sun around the different parts of the country and play continuing unbroken from January through December.
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