Word: goale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game were negative ones. Hurlingham was handicapped by the loss of its regular No. 1, Captain Michael P. Ansell, who chipped a bone in his wrist last month. Eric Tyrell-Martin. who showed the effects of a winter's polo at Del Monte, Calif., played above his seven-goal U. S. handicap. Far from the runaway that the crowd half expected, the game turned out to be a tight struggle in which the score was tied seven times and in which the goal that finally won, 9-to-8, for the Hurricanes, was scored in the last chukker when...
...beating Templeton, champions last year and warm favorites to retain their title, 10-to-9, at Meadow Brook when, with the score tied in the last chukker, Bostwick. on his speedy Mio Mio, picked up a long hit from Balding and carried it down the field for the winning goal...
...play seriously since he was 10. Promptly and characteristically, he concluded that if polo was good enough for him to play, it was good enough for more people to watch than those who could park their cars along the boards at the dozen or so private fields where high-goal players customarily perform, or afford to buy seats at Meadow Brook. He improved Bostwick Field at Old Westbury until it became, next to Meadow Brook, the best playing surface on Long Island. He put up gigantic signs "Polo-50?" on four Long Island boulevards, built a grandstand (without boxes...
This section of Cambridge life makes it look very petty, but you have still a large percentage of healthy, great-souled folk who stride toward their goal with unaverted eyes. If Harvard is in any way comparable to Cambridge, it will become less of a butt for yellow journalism when every freshman decides upon his goal and goes for it, without wondering what the other chap is going...
...Dictator Stalin gets things done, occasionally spurring his subordinates to perform the flatly impossible, appeared last week when Commissar for Transport Lazar Kaganovich announced 13,423,000 freight car loadings for the first seven months of 1935, whereas experts had considered it impossible for him to fulfill the goal of 13,356,000 loadings set by Comrade Stalin...