1941: Polo

With Elbridge T. Gerry continuing as Chairman of the United States Polo Association, governing body of the game here, there was a full and active season at the many polo fields throughout the country.

At Meadow Brook on Long Island, the National Open Championship and Monty Waterbury Cup tournament, highlights of the American season, were held and both events were won by the same team. This was the Gulf Stream four, captained and led by Michael Phipps and including in its make-up J. H. A. Phipps, Charles S. von Stade and Alan L. Corey, Jr. The National Twenty Goal Championship was also held at Meadow Brook and was won by G. H. (Pete) Bostwick and his Bostwick Field team consisting of himself, Sidney Culver, Charles von Stade and Alan Corey, Jr.

The year's Inter-Circuit and Twelve Goal Championships were, once again, held in the Middle West at the Oak Brook Club, just outside of Chicago, and the National Inter-Circuit was won by the Huisache team from Houston, Texas, while the home Oak Brook team won the Twelve Goal title. Robert D. Farish, William Dritt, Robert S. Nichoalds and Rudolph Humberson played for the winning Houston side while Harry O. Owen, Jr., Paul Butler, Dan Peacock and Charles Aaberg made up the winning Twelve Goal team.

At the Blind Brook Club at Port Chester, N. Y., Yale won the Intercollegiate Championship for the second successive year.

No formal international competition was held but two American teams visited Mexico City during the course of the year for a series of special matches with the Mexican Army.

Stewart B. Iglehart became the only 10-goal player in the world when Cecil Smith, who had shared the top pinnacle with him during the 1941 season, was dropped to 9 goals at the regular fall meeting of the Handicap Committee of the Association.