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...Polo Association well knew that no such doings were permissible. Faster turf and the new U. S. mounts made the second game at Meadow Brook last week less one-sided but the upshot was the same. When it was over, 8-to-4, Manuel Andrada, Andres Gazzotti, Luis Duggan and Roberto Cavanagh were the first poloists who had beaten the U. S. in an international series since England...
...national industry, polo is the national sport. The majority of the game's good players are not socialites as they are in the U. S., but ganchos (cowboys). Manuel Andrada, the Babe Ruth of Argentina, is a gaucho who has been playing high-goal polo for 30 years. Gazzotti, South America's No. 1 player, is a middle-class businessman. Luis Duggan and Roberto Cavanagh are third-generation, European-schooled sons of rich Irish-Argentinian ranching families. Cavanagh, at 20, is currently considered the most promising poloist in the world...
...record prices after the series, were not only better but more numerous. After the fourth chukker, when the score was tied at 8-all, the U. S. team-Bostwick, Balding. Hitchcock, Whitney-began, as is customary, to use ponies that had already played a chukker. The Argentines-Duggan, Cavanagh, Gazzotti, Andrada-used fresh ones throughout the second half...
...early match. They ran into more of the bad luck that always seems to follow Argentine poloists in the U. S. when their No. 1, Alfredo Harrington, fell at a polo pony show and tore his leg muscles. Andrada took his arm out of its sling, moved Andres Gazzotti up to No. 1, left mustachioed Juan Reynal at No. 2, in front of his brother, Jose...
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