Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equipped, costs $25,000-all but some 500 play a variety of polo which compares to what was going on on Long Island last week as one-o'-cat compares to the World Series. Poloists who belong to clubs which belong to the U. S. Polo Association receive handicaps of from zero to ten goals in ratio to their ability. To enter the Open, a team's four members must have a total handicap of 21 goals or better. In the whole world, only that minute corner of Long Island bounded on the north by the Sound...
Greentree, with the only 10-goal poloist in U. S. ranking, Tommy Hitchcock, at No. 3, and England's Gerald Balding, 9 goals, at No. 2, is named for the Manhasset estate of John Hay Whitney. He is the team's backer, and, although his handicap is only 5, its Back. Minuscule Pete Bostwick plays No. 1. On paper the strongest team in the tournament (31 goals) is Templeton, which had a first-round bye. It includes three of the four players who beat England at Hurlingham in June-Winston Guest at Back, Stewart Iglehart...
...Fifty-nine-year-old Benjamin F. Cheek, Clinton, Ind. garage owner: the Grand American Handicap, No. 1 event of U. S. trapshooting; at Vandalia, Ohio...
...sloop Kirawan, launched only a month ago. Most famed was Vadim Makaroff's 72-ft. adapted-ketch Vamarie, known to yachtsmen as "often a bridesmaid but never a bride," because she so frequently crosses the finish line first only to lose the race because of her small allowance handicap. Last week's finish proved no exception. First over the horizon at St. David's Head, Vamarie crossed the line four minutes ahead of the schooner Brilliant. When the race was over, however, neither had won, for brand new Kirawan, finishing third, beat them both...
...poloists, England's poloists have at least been practical. Two of their ablest Internationalists, Eric Tyrrell-Martin and Gerald Balding, have spent large portions of the last three years at Meadow Brook, Palm Beach and Del Monte. Poloist Balding learned his lesson so well that last year his handicap was raised to nine, only one less than famed Tommy Hitchcock, the world's only 10-goal player. Recalled to Hurlingham, Balding became with Tyrrell-Martin the nucleus of the British team. Last week, with Captain Humphrey Guinness behind Tyrrell-Martin at back and Hesketh Hughes ahead of Balding...