Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pittsburgh Pirates had climbed into the first division last year, with the help of bailing wire and Manager Billy Meyer; they still needed help at first and third. In St. Louis, the Cardinals had Stan Musial, now generally conceded to be the most valuable player in the game; they were in the position of hoping Stan would be enough...
International polo, the prewar sport of the breakneck rich, has nearly as many postwar problems as Lake Success. Taxes and war have all but killed the game in Britain, have certainly done it no good in the U.S. Only in Argentina, where more rated polo players (some 3,000) exist than in any other country in the world, is polo still clearly on the upgrade. For four years, Argentine polo's pride & joy has been a dashing outfit with a couple of Argentine Irishmen named Juan and Roberto Cavanagh riding...
...ball almost beneath his pony's feet and drove it squarely between the uprights for two successive goals, to turn the tide. With less than one minute to play, the U.S. scored the clincher that beat the Argentines, 10-9. But the Argentine protest was allowed; the game didn't count...
Dartmouth Beat the golf team 6 to 1 Saturday after the varsity dropped one game on the eighteenth hole and two on the nineteenth. The match was played at the Dedham Polo and Country Club, Harvard's home course...
Captain Bill Rickenbacker scored a 71, low for the afternoon, to win the Crimson's only game. Four other varsity players broke 80, but Dartmouth had easily the best team...