Career
Lost in finals of 1941 championship while playing for the Aknusti team (From 1923 to 1941 all United States Open Polo Championship were played at Meadow Brook on Long Island, New York)
The United States. Open Polo Championship
The 1939 Bostwick Field team: Pete Bostwick, Robert L. Gerry Junior., Elbridge T. Gerry, Senior, Eric Horace Tyrrell-Martin. In the 1940 United States. Open Polo Championship final the Aknusti team beat Great Neck.
The final score was a close 5 to 4.
Playing for Aknusti that year were Gerald Smith, Robert L. Gerry, Junior., Elbridge Gerry, and Alan Corey, Junior.
The 1941 Aknusti team was composed of Elbridge T. Gerry, Senior, Robert L. Gerry, Junior., Edward H. Gerry, and Pete Bostwick. In the United States. Open finals they played against Gulf Stream whose riders were Michael Grace Phipps, Ben Phipps, Charles Skiddy von Stade, and Alan L. Corey, Junior.
Gulf Stream beat Aknusti 10-6. Other USPA Trophies for polo
1929 USPA Open National Interscholastic Championship
1933 USPA Junior Championship
1938 USPA Twenty Goal Championship
Married Martha Leighton Kramer.
Owned until his death was his sprawling 2,000-acre (81 km2) estate "Aknusti" (later renamed Broadlands) in the rolling hills of Delaware County, New New York
lieutenant has acreage in the townships of Andes, Delhi, and Bovina New New York lieutenant is an almost contiguous estate with a polo field, multiple working farms, a 20,000 sq ft (1,900 m2). mountain ridge sited colonial manor house designed by Walker & Gillette, numerous dependencies, and landscaping done by Frederick Law Olmsted. That property has since been sold multiple times although it remains intact and owned by Amanresorts.
Son of Robert L. Gerry, Senior
Twin brothers Henry and Edward.
And an older brother Elbridge T. Gerry, Senior
Nephew of Governor West. Averell Harriman (mother"s brother)
Nephew of Mary Harriman who founded the Junior League (mother"s sister)
Grandson of railroad baron East.H. Harriman. (Mother was East H Harriman"s daughter, Cornelia Harriman, who married Robert L Gerry, Senior)
Great-great grandson of Elbridge Gerry, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Surviving children: Robert L. Gerry III
Robert L. Gerry, Junior"s mother was a sister to Roland Harriman and to the New York governor, West. Averell Harriman.