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...stone terrace and colonial portico of Piping Rock Club (see map, p. 25), test matches between candidates for the U. S. team went on with much earnestness. People watching from cars parked along the sideboards were increasingly numerous and interested. The matches with England, to be played at Meadow Brook-climax not only of this season but of three years of polo preparation-were only three weeks...
This trio were original Meadow Larks, as Meadow Brook's younger generation has since been called. They started playing...
That the team will be picked from a national rather than an exclusively Meadow Brook squad is a salute to the British. After repeated defeats the British have accepted the introduction of hard-riding, bumping, slashing and swatting to the "gentleman's game." Particularly they have tried to develop the Milburn-Hitch-cock style of tremendous hitting...
...morals which necessarily intrudes its presence into birth control theory involves an issue upon which tradition and "enlightenment" sharply divide. The younger generation regards the whole matter in two separate classes. As applied to individual cases, they argue that the matter is one of private morals and refuse to brook the intrusion of legislation into a matter upon which it is ill-fitted to judge...
...occasional "hunter" who combs the hills once each year for a legal maximum bag of game, not for the bleacher authority on batting averages. Its rich illustrations depict gentlemen riders taking jumps handsomely: "Mr. Lewis Lacey . . . leads Mr. Hopping over the boards in the third match at Meadow Brook"; a priest blessing the hounds of Chagrin Valley Hunt Club before the chase...