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An original Phil Berube pen and ink drawing of Tommy Hitchcock Jr playing polo, with cartoon captions and a handwritten caption ''Still Going Strong'

Winning Bid:
£150

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An original Phil Berube pen and ink drawing of Tommy Hitchcock Jr playing polo, with cartoon captions and a handwritten caption ''Still Going Strong'' in blue ink, 21.8 x 19.3cm; sold together with a hand painted colour postcard of Tommy Hitchcock, mounted on a canvas frame, 16 x 10.8 cm; seven b & w press photographs of Tommy Hitchcock, dating from the 1920/30/40's whilst representing the US polo team, another of Hitchcock playing tennis dated 1939 and another of him in military uniform; two postcards from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, featuring polo matches, one with pencil writing on reverse, postage stamp, dated 1936, 9.2 x 14.1 cm; a print of Britain's Walter Selby Buckmaster and a b & w photograph featuring Buckmaster with Mrs Geo Gould; eleven b & w photographs from the 1930/40's featuring some famous polo players and Hollywood stars, to include Devereaux Milburn & Malcolm Stevensen, the Gracida Brothers, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joe E Brown, Jack Holt, Lillian Knight, Charles Cary Rumsey, Maureen Orcutt, Mr & Mrs Fred Bailes, (qty) Thomas (Tommy) Hitchcock Jr., American Polo Player (1900 - 1941), 10 goal handicap in 1922, one of the first group of inductees into the Polo Hall of Fame in 1990. He was a member of the winning teams in the Westchester Cup in 1924, 1927, 1930 and 1939 and participated in the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris winning a silver medal.

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