Sparrowhawk Championship Polo Trophy
date: label: date made
content: 1926
name: label: user
content: Iglehart, Philip L. B.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Small silver trophy with a flared base, thin stem, and flared cup with a handle on each side. Sparrowhawk Championship, September 1926. The Sparrowhawk's were one of two polo clubs in the1920s and 1930s in the Westbury, Long Island, New York area. These clubs served the younger generation of players with instructions in riding and the strategies of polo. According to the donor, the players on this cup were J. Peter Grace, the head of W. R. Grace & Co; Barbara Stoddard, daughter of Louis Stoddard, polo internationalist and Chairman of the USPA for many years; Philip Iglehart, the donor and who achieved a seven goal handicap and is well known in the polo circles; Stewart Iglehart, the donor's brothers and famous internationalist and 10 goal player; and Joseph Davis an enthusiastic player who lost his life during WWII.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Polo
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Trophies
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Philip L. B. Iglehart
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0804.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0804
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0804.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: trophy, polo
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: sterling silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 4 1/2 in; 12.7 cm x 11.43 cm