Robert Skene (polo player)

Charles Skene began his polo-playing career playing country club polo in Australia with his father and friends.

In 1937 he was on the Ashton Brothers Australian team that won the Champion Cup at the Hurlingham Club in London.

At 25 he received a nine-goal rating playing for England vs. the United States in the Westchester Cup on Long Island, New York.

Skene remained in the United States after the match, working in the war relief effort in the Bundles for Britain campaign.

Wanting to contribute more to the war effort, he soon joined the Indian army, becoming an officer in a Gurkhas regiment.

The Santa Barbara club awards the annual Robert Skene Trophy to twenty-goal tournament winners.