Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although leading by three goals in the first chukker of a fast polo game on Saturday, the University team finished behind the 103rd Field Artillery team of Providence, with the score of 8 3-4 to 6 1-4. At the same time in Boston the officers of the Harvard R. O. T. C. unit lost their lead in the Indoor Polo League by losing to the 101st Artillery team...
...University game was hard and fast. Despite the absence of Captain Kent the Crimson riders displayed a brand of polo that could have vanquished any less experienced trio than the 103rd. Pinkerton, scoring four of Harvard's goals was bettered only by Beresford of the Providence team who made five of his team's scores...
...went a pistol in the Chicago Coliseum a few hours later. Three runners leapt forward; fast they went, though they had a mile and three-quarters to go. In front was a light skinny one, this Nurmi; behind him came Joie Ray, Fred Liewendahl. Lap after lap they padded. At the tenth they were only two; Liewendahl had quit. At the twentieth Nurmi looked over his shoulder at lurching, wavering Ray. Then he set his eyes on the tape, flashed through it, trotted off to his dressing room. Eighty yards behind came Ray, crossed the finished, collapsed into the arms...
...squad to Boston yesterday afternoon, and the players had a workout at the Arena from 6 until 7 o' clock. Although defeated decisively by the Eli sextet two weeks ago, and on the short end of a 3 to 1 game with the Dartmouth team. Princeton has come along fast lately, and it will take the Crimson's best to eke out a win tonight. Harvard rules a favorite by virtue of as Yale win, but the football game last fall was a fitting example of the value of comparative scores when Harvard and Princeton meet...
...lost their matches. Captain Hayne, of the University, was defeated by Tryon, of M. I. T. by a close referee's decision. Captain Greer of M. I. T. lost his but more decisively, being thrown by Wood, the University's 158-pound representative. Both these bouts were exciting and fast, and provided the chief interest in an otherwise dull meet...