Word: hitter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unless the automobile carrying Mrs. Bilbo was backing toward Guide Hall the hitter had no way of knowing the car was from Mississippi as that State issues but one license tag which is placed on the rear of motor vehicles...
...used to conventional army saddles, they sit back when riding after the ball but when it comes time to hit they hoist themselves out of the saddle and smite amain. As Editor Peter Vischer of authoritative Polo says: "None of them hit from arm chairs." Balding is a long hitter and so are Pat Roark and, proverbially, Lewis Lacey. the Canadian-born Argentine. Richard George is still competing with Aidan Roard for No. 1. Like the U. S. team, the Englishmen have decided not to announce their lineup until the night before the first game (Sept. 6), The British leader...
Last week at its mid-season meeting the U. S. Polo Association's handicap committee issued an important demotion and an important accolade. To Winston F. C. Guest, hard-riding No. 2, next to Thomas Hitchcock Jr. the longest hitter in the game, fell the demotion-reduction of his handicap from nine goals to eight. Always erratic, Guest has been expected to have poor afternoons, but this year in trial matches among contestants for the International team his poor afternoons have come oftener than before, his streaks of brilliant scoring more seldom. Critics who had considered him sure...
...busy with final examinations. Ticknor is one of the men who will not play and Huxtable will replace him temporarily in the center garden. Ticknor's place in the heart of the batting order will be taken over by Lupien, who has also replaced him as the leading hitter of the team. There is also a possibility that Mays, who was injured in the Penn game over a month ago, will get in for a few innings today. The Sophomore second sacker reported for practice on Monday and has been taking light workouts since then. With Nugent at second there...