Polo Player Thomas Hitchcock Jr starts his 28th polo season, 1939
Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. (February 11, 1900 – April 19, 1944) was an American polo player who was killed in an air crash during World War II. He was inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald loosely modeled two characters in his books on Tommy Hitchcock, Jr.: Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby (1925) and the Tommy Barban character in Tender Is the Night (1934)
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