Clarence Mott Woolley Jr. led, for a time, a charmed existence.
Clarence Mott Woolley Sr. made central heating possible in America by providing cast iron radiators for millions of homes; for this, he was well compensated, so young Clarence’s educational options were not limited. He attended Phillips Andover and then Yale. Because his father had a [...]
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C.M. Woolley, Yale & Polo
Posted in Polo on July 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Amen
Posted in Polo on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Horses trust us. We need to return that trust.”
– Mike Azzaro, polo player, on why the United States Polo Association should institute drug testing for players and horses
Winston Guest, Patron of the Arts
Posted in Art, Photography, Polo on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Winston Guest, trailed by Lewis Lacey, 1930 Westchester Cup
I have read much about Winston F. C. Guest (1906-1982), who in his youth led Yale’s polo team to the Intercollegiate Championship, playing, in the words of Time, “polo that was fast and sportingly rough enough for international cup matches.” Guest did become an internationalist, playing for [...]
A Variety of Interests
Posted in Art, Photography, Polo on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“I love naked women, wildlife, polo ponies and chandeliers. I have eclectic taste.”
– Darryn Lyons, owner of the world’s largest celebrity photographic agency
O.M. Wallop, Yale and Polo
Posted in Polo on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The other day, I stumbled across another Yale polo story, this one with a player named Wallop. How could anyone resist picking up that thread of history?
The story began in 1883 when Oliver Henry Wallop graduated from Oxford and went to Wyoming. This may strike you as an odd move, but he was the fifth [...]
The Westchester Cup
Posted in Polo on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mary Duncan Sanford and Babs Tyrrell-Martin grace this photo, most probably taken during the 12th competition for the Westchester Cup, in 1939 at Meadow Brook, Long Island, where the best polo players of the U.S. and the U.K. were competing for a trophy first put up for grabs in 1886.
On the left, Mary Sanford. As [...]
Griswold Lorillard and Polo’s Westchester Cup
Posted in Polo on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nathaniel Griswold Lorillard became famous for something he didn’t do, and has been almost completely forgotten in connection with something he actually did.
To begin, he was born in clover. His father was Pierre Lorillard IV, head of a tobacco company that had been thriving since 1760 (and thrives to this day). The lad was named [...]
Henry D. Babcock, Yale and Polo
Posted in Polo on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Henry Denison Babcock Jr. had the world by the tail. His grandfather, Samuel D. Babcock, was a wealthy businessman with a home on Fifth Avenue, a “country seat” at Riverdale-on-Hudson, and memberships in the Metropolitan, Union and Manhattan clubs, the New York Yacht Club, and the Country Club of Westchester County. Henry’s father, Henry Babcock [...]
Marjorie LeBoutillier
Posted in Polo on November 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I have a special affection for extraordinary people who have been largely, and unfairly, forgotten, and one of my recent favorites is Marjorie LeBoutillier, a polo player of great ability. She first surfaces in Aiken, South Carolina, in Harry Worcester Smith’s Life and Sport in Aiken and Those Who Made It (1935), in which he [...]
Polo, Oysters and Evelyn Nesbit
Posted in Art, Photography, Polo on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The upcoming tournament for the Monty Waterbury Cup, which begins in Aiken, S.C., on September 19th, calls to mind one of America’s greatest polo players and the evening he dined with Evelyn Nesbit.
James “Monty” Waterbury was a 10-goal player and a finesse player, always composed, in perfect control of himself, his pony and his mallet. [...]
