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...once inoculated with the polo germ, he never recovers, he will play the game the rest of his life," asserted Devereux Milburn, famous internationalist player in an interview with the CRIMSON reporter recently. Mr. Milburn, a graduate of the Harvard Law School, is one of three ten-goal handicap men in the country and is considered by experts to be the game's greatest exponent...
...Poor Gentleman' is a breathless tale, with many a sudden twist and hair-raising moment. The Shrewd ways by which Captain Shere overcame his handicap, for example, that gruesome life-or-death fight in the dark, when the blind man meets him on even terms, and the manner in which he turned it often to advantage in his contest with his able, if treacherous, adversaries are thrilling incidents in a story that Major Beith has told in his finest...
...featured by scoring ten goals while R. B. Burnett ocC. and J. P. Cotton '29 each collected three tallies. The Artillery players got only one goal, scored by Needham. The final count, however, does not show the great lead which the Crimson team amassed, because of the point handicap and larger number of penalties given the University players...
Starting the game with the one point handicap given the Crimson players in the league games because of their higher rating, the University horsemen soon galloped into the lead and were never headed. Clark started his scoring in the first period and tallied in all but the last chukker. He made the best shot of the night at the start of the third period when he travelled at full speed down the center of the riding ring, hit the ball at about quarter length, and with a powerful sweep, drove it the remaining distance in the air for a score...
Score, Harvard 13 1-2 101st Field Artillery 1-2 Harvard handicap 1 Goals. Clark 10, Bennett 3, Cotton 3, Needham Fonts, Birmett 3. Clark 2 Furber 2, Needham time six chokers of five minutes each Referee Lieutenant Graves...