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...Greentree polo team is named for the Long Island estate of John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, who has been trying for five years to win the National Open Championship. To help him at Meadow Brook last week, he had Cecil Calvert Smith, the hard-riding Texas cowboy who was called the greatest player of the year after the West beat the East at Chicago last August (TIME, Aug. 21, 28); and two of the Balding brothers, Gerald and Ivor, who come from England to the U. S. for every polo season...
Evenly handicapped-25 goals for Greentree and 26 for Aurora-the finalists were almost even on the Scoreboard after the first four chukkers-6 goals for the Auroras to 5 for Whitney's team. But the crowd in the blue Meadow Brook stands had noticed two surprising differences between the teams. Seymour Knox's ponies were stretching their necks ahead of Greentree's in races for the ball and "Big Bo'' Boeseke, mounted splendidly on Red Ace, Dos de Oro and Cacique, was clearly outplaying Smith. In the seventh chukker, Boeseke barely saved himself from...
...Thomas H. Somerville's bay gelding Trouble Maker: the 35th running of the Meadow Brook Hunt Cup; from Mrs. Vadim Makaroff's Gigolo, by a length; at Westbury...
Only the Meiji would know. Firm in this conviction a spruce file of puzzled Japanese Army officers rode out from Tokyo one dawn last week to a pungent park of pine and camphor trees. They crossed a gurgling brook, entered a spotlessly clean quadrangle and faced with awe the Meiji Shrine, an unpainted wooden building, austere, impressive and, to Japanese, sublime...
Railmen pointed out that such a move would leave Philadelphia and Baltimore as one-road cities, something which their citizens would never brook. If there was any discussion among "financial interests," it must have been among the partners of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., bankers for both roads...