Table of Contents Acknowledgments ix Foreword by Dennis J. Amato 1 Introduction 3 Part I. The Herbert Era, 1876-1921 1. The Beginnings of All Things Polo in America 7 2. The First International Games 20 3. Polo Across the Land 24 4. The Founding Clubs and the Organization of the Polo Association 40 5. Individual Handicaps and the Major Polo Tournaments 51 6.

The Westchester Cup: The Pre- War Years 60 7. American Polo Players in the Olympic Games 71 Part II. Full Blossom: The Age of Hitchcock, 1922-1939 8. The Roaring Twenties at Home: West of the Mississippi 79 9. The Roaring Twenties at Home: East of the Mississippi 93 10. The Open Championship After World War I 112 11. The Golden Era of the International Matches 118 12. Polo During the Depression 137 13.

The Open Championship until the War 152 14. The Game at the Universities 163 15. Polo in the Military 173 Between pages 180 and 181 are 8 color plates containing 22 photographs Part III. The Road to Recovery, 1946-1975 16. The Home Front, 1946-1960 183 17. International Contests After the War 197 18. Women's Polo in America 211 19. Indoor Polo 225 20.

Polo at Home, 1961-1975 231 Part IV. American Contemporary Polo 21. The International Panorama 249 22. Polo in America in the Late Twentieth Century 264 23. The Literature of Polo in the United States 291 24. American Polo in Art 300 25. American Polo in the Twenty- First Century 310 26. Current Polo Issues in the United States 323 Appendix 1.

Rules of the California Polo Club, 1876 337 Appendix 2. Clubs Affiliated to the Polo Association, 1890-1900 338 Appendix 3. Henry L. Herbert's Handicap List, 1888 340 Appendix 4. Players' Handicaps in 1888, 1890 and 1891 341 Appendix 5. Winners of Major Championships, 1890-1921 342 Appendix 6. Winners of the U.S.

Open Championship 344 Appendix 7. Winners of the U.S. Women's Polo Association Open Championship 348 Chapter Notes 349 Bibliography 361 Index 365.