"J Cheever Cowdin c1927 Meadowbrook Polo Press Photo" (SOLD)

Sz: 8" x 6"

JCC, Veteran of fifteen years play in American Polo, who has been named as a member of the American Big Four to play in the international matches at Meadowbrook against the British Army in India team.

8-12-27

John Cheever Cowdin (March 17, 1889 – September 16, 1960) was an American financier and polo champion who was a head of Universal Pictures, Standard Capital Corporation of New York City, and was chairman of Ideal Chemicals.

J. Cheever Cowdin served as president of Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. In 1941, the track renamed its Junior Champion Stakes Thoroughbred horse race to the Cowdin Stakes in his honor.

He was termed by Esquire Magazine not only one of the best-dressed men of his era, but "one of the Big Four of polo from the time of the great Tommy Hitchcock." The International Polo Club Palm Beach lists him on a 1927 team with W. Averell Harriman and Tommy Hitchcock. He also played in 1925