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]
The Gerald Balding Cup is held annually at Cirencester Park Polo Club in his memory. In the 1920s he played in England, America and India. In 1930, 1936 and 1939, he played for England against the US for the Westchester Cup and was field captain of the English team in 1939. He was a brilliant striker of the ball and was rated as one of the finest players ever seen.
He died on 16 September 1957 in London, England.[1]
His granddaughter is broadcaster and journalist Clare Balding.[3]
Publication
Gerald Balding, "Polo as the English Play it," The Sportsman, September 1937, 36.
^ ab"Ivor Balding, 96, a Standout During Polo's Golden Era, Dies". New York Times. 26 January 2005. Retrieved 5 April 2011. Mr. Balding, along with his brothers Barney and Gerald, played polo in the United States throughout the 1920s and 1930s, 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
^"TheGenealogist featured article on Clare Balding". TheGenealogist. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
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