Word: argentina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first game of the two-out-of-three series for polo's Cup of the Americas last fortnight, Greentree, representing the U. S., was roundly beaten by Argentina, 21-to-9. There were two reasons for the defeat (TIME, Sept. 28). One was the superiority of the Argentine ponies. The other was the superiority of the Argentine players...
...notion exploded with a dozen loud and startling cracks. The cracks were made by the mallets of four Argentine poloists knocking the ball through the goal posts four times in each of the last three chukkers of a game against the best team in the U. S. Score for Argentina when the game was over was 21-to-9-most one-sided result of a first-class International polo match on U. S. records...
...least 50% of polo are the "mounts," now bred so big and speedy that poloists have almost discarded the term "ponies." Main reason for Argentina's victory last week was the fact that the Argentine mounts, which are likely to bring record prices after the series, were not only better but more numerous. After the fourth chukker, when the score was tied at 8-all, the U. S. team-Bostwick, Balding. Hitchcock, Whitney-began, as is customary, to use ponies that had already played a chukker. The Argentines-Duggan, Cavanagh, Gazzotti, Andrada-used fresh ones throughout the second half...
Last week's game, by an agreement made last spring to save the trouble of test matches to choose an International team, was not, properly speaking between Argentina and the U. S. It was between Argentina and Greentree, winner of the U. S. Open Championship, in which the best poloists in the U. S. were distributed among half a dozen teams. Main chance to restore U. S. faith in its poloists seemed last week to depend on whether substitutions-specifically, Winston Guest for John Hay Whitney at Back and Stewart Iglehart for Gerald Balding at No. 2- could...
...worth of orders from abroad went for 294 aircraft ($6,416,369); 409 engines ($1,902,768); spare parts ($3,100,270); parachutes ($220,043). Best U. S. customer was China, which paid $1,780,739 for 34 airplanes, 13 engines, various parts. Next biggest buyers were: Argentina ($237,670); Colombia ($148,002); Italy ($113,351); French Equatorial Africa...