Elbridge T. Gerry, Sr.

Elbridge Gerry played polo at school in Aiken and with the Meadow Larks, both under the tutelage of Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, Sr., and with the Old Aiken team. He won the Indoor Intercollegiate Championship in 1929.

His outdoor victories included the U.S. Open Championship and the Monty Waterbury Cup, each three times, the National Twenty Goal twice, and with the “Old Aiken” versus the Argentine “Santa Paula” team in 1931. He went to England with the American Team in 1936, was captain of the Aknusti Team, and achieved a 9-goal handicap in 1940. Actively involved in the U.S. Polo Association, he became its Chairman in 1940.

He was an outstanding and versatile position player as well as an unselfish and enduring sportsman.

Elbridge Gerry, Sr. holding the 1928 Monty Waterbury Cup

Wm. Post, II, E.T. Gerry, Sr., R.L. Gerry, Jr., F.S. “Skiddy” von Stade

circa 1930s