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Over the Solent spithead, thread of English Channel between the Isle of Wight and Hampshire, three Englishmen and three Italians raced for a new world's air speed record last week. Contestants: H. R. D. ("Daisy") Waghorn, 25; R. L. R. Atcherly, 25; d'Arcy Grieg, 29; Giovanni Monti, 29; Rema Cadringher, 26; Tomaso dal Molin, 27. Lining Solent spithead were at least 1,000,000 spectators -the Prince of Wales on a yacht with his crony, rich Philip Sassoon, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald with foreign ambassadors on the aircraft carrier Argus. Absent from race and show...
...enough, polo enthusiasts were last week thinking less of the approaching finals than of the poor showing of the Eastcott team, three-quarters English, which was easily eliminated by Hitchcock's four in the opening match of the series. Whether by some inherent strain of grace which prevents Englishmen from making final, unlovely exertions, or by some inscrutable play of chance, U. S. polo had again shown itself indomitably superior to British play. Since 1927 hard-riding gentlemen from the British Isles, traditional home of the polo-minded, have twice tried to capture the International trophy from...
Thus it was that during the past few weeks field glasses in the stands were trained particularly on the English players, neglected best U. S. stickmen, eager college boy contestants. The Englishmen, as everyone knew, were potential internationalists who will enter next year's international play. They had been sent to play in tournaments, to get the feel of U. S. turf, to study U. S. play and players. In addition to Capt. Roark, sure to be among next year's challengers, were bespectacled Cecil Balding, wing commander Percival K. Wise, tattooed 9-goalman and Capt. Charles...
...first game of the Monty Waterbury Cup series, also begun last week at Westbury, and in importance second only to the Open, the National Junior Championship youngsters who call themselves the Old Aikens trounced them 16-8. Old Aikens' victory coupled with the early elimination of the Englishmen in the Open series discouraged polo-observers from predicting formidable 1930 opposition from overseas...
There was nothing in TIME'S language that a gentlewoman could find worthy, neither sympathy for the mother and father swans over-powered by Englishmen whom I do not hesitate to call callous brutes, nor any tenderness for the little frightened swanlets as their bills were nicked with sharp knives! Do you approve of such savagery to animals? If you do you ought to have your own noses nicked...