Word: hallberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straight by the U. S. First to jump were the Swedes. So intent were they on carrying home the trophy that they had shrewdly kept their superb mounts out of some preliminaries, bringing them into the main event in the pink of condition. Performance showed their wisdom. Capt. Ernst Hallberg led off on Aida. a magnificent brown mare from the stables of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. No faults. Then Lieut. Herbert Sachs on the grey gelding Orient. No faults. Finally Count Gustaf Fredrik von Rosen on brown Kornett. In a breathless minute he, too. made a perfect circuit. No team...
...Raguse cleared every barrier without a fault. Lieut. Nyblaeus had to equal that performance to win. He took the first five barriers cleanly. On the last his mount's hind foot knocked down the top bar, giving victory to the U. S. But Sweden's Captain Ernst Hallberg won the hotly contested honors for individual jumping. Throughout the meet the un happy Czechoslovakians, who had arrived late and lacked practice, never budged out of last place...