Gerald Barnard Balding, Sr.
Gerald Matthews Balding (1909–1957) was a British champion polo player.[1]
Biography
He was born in Leicestershire, England, in 1909. He had two brothers who also played polo, Ivor Godfrey Balding and John Barnard "Barney" Balding. His sons, Gerald Barnard "Toby" Balding and Ian Balding, were both thoroughbred racehorse trainers in Britain.
He remains the United Kingdom's last 10 goal polo player since 1939. Of the state of polo in England in the 1930s, he said, "Polo is not taken so seriously as in America or Argentina."[2]
He died on 16 September 1957 in London, England.[1]
Publication
- Gerald Balding, "Polo as the English Play it," The Sportsman, September 1937, 36.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Ivor Balding, 96, a Standout During Polo's Golden Era, Dies". New York Times. January 26, 2005. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
Mr. Balding, along with his brothers Barney and Gerald, played polo in the United States throughout the 1920's and 1930's, mostly at the famed Meadow Brook Club in Westbury on Long Island, then the national center of the sport.
- ↑ Horace A. Laffaye, The Evolution of Polo, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2009, p. 144