OAK BROOK POLO CLUB 100year timeline

First U.S. Open Polo Championships to be held at

Oak Brook Polo Club was chartered on October 3rd, 1924

Founded the Oak Brook Polo Cub

USPA Monty Waterbury Champions

U.S. Open Polo Championships played at Oak Brook with the exception of 1963, 1966 and 1968

Creation of the first Butler Handicap, Paul created this tournament so that teams, which had been knocked out of the U.S. Open competition, would have something else for which to compete

Became the largest polo plant in the world with 14 fields and stabling for 400 horses and billed the “Polo Capital of the United States” or “Polo Town”

1st U.S. Open Polo Champions (Team: A. Donald Beveridge, Wayne Brown, Cecil Smith, Harold L. “Chico” Barry) 8; Royal Palm 5 at Oak Brook

2nd U.S. Open Polo Champions (Concar Oak Brook Team: Leslie L. Linfoot, Charles W. Smith, Julio Muller, Jack Murphy) 10; Solo Cup Crescents 9 at Oak Brook

1964

1964

3rd U.S. Open Polo Champions Oak Brook-Santa Barbara (Ronald Tongg, Charles W. Smith, William R. Linfoot, Jack Murphy) 11; Bunntyco 5 at Oak Brook

1965

1967-1979

4th U.S. Open Polo Champions

Bunntyco-Oak Brook (Delmer

W. Carroll, W. Ray Harrington Jr., Jack Murphy, Richard Bunn) 8; Milwaukee 2 at Oak Brook

Michael Butler representing the Oak Brook Polo Club would help international polo competition return to England by revitalizing the Coronation Cup

5th

Champions Oak Brook (Hugo Dalmar Jr., Charles W. Smith, Allan D. Scherer, Robert D. Beveridge) 8; Tulsa Greenhill 7 at Oak Brook

Abercrombie & Kent (Geoffrey Kent, David Wigdahl, Antonio Herrera, Stuart Mackenzie) 7; Tulsa 6

USPA registered JBK and Sue Sally Hale of Sleepy Hollow Polo Club, Carmel Valley California and assigned them handicaps JBK handicapped at 0 / Sue Sally handicapped at 1

6th

Champions Oak Brook (Hugo Dalmar Jr., William G. Atkinson, Charles W. Smith, Robert D. Beveridge) 9; Willow Bend 4 at Oak Brook

Guillermo Gracida won his first of 16 U.S. Open Polo Championship titles at Oak Brook

1976 1980-89

1976

June 25th – the day after his 89th birthday, Paul Butler was struck and killed by a car as he crossed a street in front of his house in Oak Brook, Illinois Butler Handicap Champions with Michael Butler

1 st Butler Handicap Champions with Jorie Butler Kent’s Abercrombie & Kent Team

Butler Handicap Champions with Michael Butler

1986

2nd U.S. Open Polo Champions with Jorie Butler Kent’s Abercrombie & Kent Team Rolex A & K (Geoffrey Kent, Joel R. Baker, Antonio Herrera, Stuart Mackenzie) 10; Retama 9 at Retama

2 nd Butler Handicap Champions with Jorie Butler Kent’s Abercrombie & Kent Team

HRH Prince of Wales, Prince Charles would visit Oak Brook to play in exhibition polo match between England and Oak Brook

James Drury, in partnership with the Village of Oak Brook, agreed to take over polo operations and put polo back in the hands of the greater Chicagoland polo community

Oak Brook Polo Club celebrates 100th Anniversary and return to the Cecil Smith Field

Oak Brook Polo Club was awarded and hosted the National Youth Tournament Series Championships