W. Ray Harrington Jr.
Biography
W. Ray Harrington Jr. was born in Texas.[1]
He was an eight-goal player. He won seven U.S. Open Polo Championships, in 1956, 1959, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1969, including four consecutive victories.[1][2] He also won eight Twenty-Goal championships, and two Monty Waterbury Cups, titles.[1] He played on the United States team in the 1969 Cup of the Americas.[1]
He starred in the polo training film made for the United States Polo Association (USPA) called Charlie Chukker.[3]
He was inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame in Lake Worth, Florida on March 18, 1993.[1]
gollark: PHP is incredibly advanced.
gollark: Suuuuuure.
gollark: Arbitrary bytestreams.
gollark: You didn't let me post in <#746231084353847366>.
gollark: Also, you should write some good flavour text about how GTechâ„¢ has to store arbitrarily large quantities of bee neuron data, and has offloaded the task of helping this to esolangs people.
References
- Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame, Stephen J. Roberts's biography
- Horace A. Laffaye, Polo in the United States: A History
- William Clark Herington, Six Chukkers Of Love, AuthorHouse, 2005, p. 47
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.