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...vast crowd assembled one fine day at Meadow Brook to witness the much-heralded polo match. Several times that crowd was seen to rise hesitatingly as a succession of young men wearing clothes a la Renfrew arrived. His arrival was unmistakable; the vast hordes of photographers gathered at the main entrance to the field suddenly went "mad dog", scampered hither and thither, stopped, snapped and retired. Cheers and handclaps were absent, but most of the spectators strained their necks. All present were impressed with the Baron's good sportsmanship. He smiled throughout the game, despite the fact that...
Little horses, nervy and debonair, clipping the turf with pointed hoofs, mallets whacking, riders shouldering, wheeling, while young Royalty looks on. At Meadow Brook, the background is grass; at the Wanamaker Art Gallery, Manhattan, it is canvas. An exhibit of Poloiana has opened there. A wooden pony, smartly blanketed, stands at the end of the gallery-a silent symbol of the stable. The room is rigged with saddles, flags, balls, mallets; scenes of the game and portraits of dead and living players cover the walls. A painted Prince, losing in the work of St. Helier Lander something of the incipient...
...century" dash, Paddock was vying with an old rival, Loren Murchison, of Newark, and both were out to trim "Al" Leconey (Meadow Brook Club), who had claimed a new world's record of 9 2/5 sec. for a race, down wind, he had run the previous week at Allentown, Pa. Murchison led to the last ten strides, when Paddock flashed by. Leconey took third. Murchison also led Paddock at the start of the 220, was 3 yds. behind when Paddock snapped the worsted...
Back, Devereux Milburn, Meadow Brook...
...Four" thus designated, after weeks of trial play (TIME, Aug. 11), proceeded to practice daily together on Cochrane Field, at the Meadow Brook Club, Westbury, L. I. On Sept. 6, they will lock mallets on International Field (adjacent to Cochrane Field) with the invading Britons in a two-out-of-three series...