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The famous Tommy Hitchcock, America's greatest polo player, shortly before he was killed in World War II, while he was stationed in England, engaged in a polite argument with a famous British sportsman about the snobbishness and democracy as practiced by the athletes from both countries.

"We're far more democratic in American sports than you Englishmen are over here," stoutly insisted Tommy Hitchcock. "I maintain that all you English sportsmen are much too reserved."

"Sheer nonsense!" retorted the Britisher indignantly, "Why, take me for an example. I'm the son of a duke, yet when I was in Oxford and rowing on my college eight, I knew all the other chaps on the crew quite well except one -but he was way up in the bow."