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...propaganda value of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, both in the novel and film forms, has never been calculated. But its violent assertion of feeling was an extra puff of wind to raise even higher the wave of antagonism toward all things German. The mere depiction of French heroism, regardless to the end to which that dauntless effort was directed, was a rousing stimulus to European and American imagination and cooperation...
Four tired, dripping, happy horsemen guided their lathered ponies across International Field, at Meadow Brook, L. I., toward the official box of the U. S. Polo Association. They were the Four Horsemen of America's polo apocalypse and had just left their English opponents tranced and helpless a second time before wondrous revelations of speed, strength, skill with mount and mallet. Said the Scoreboard: "U. S., 14; England...
...come-back." Zev, however, was not down and out. Up he bobbed, an easy winner from his stablemate Mad Play in the Kings County Handicap. Both horses were from the Rancocas Stable and both put up a fine performance. Mad Play, however, attracted most of the attention and horsemen considered him by all odds worthy to match hoofs with St. James, Wise Counsellor, Sarazen and the others at Pimlico...
...University polo team will leave this afternoon for New York, where it will engage the horsemen from Virginia Military Institute tomorrow afternoon, in its first match of the Outdoor Intercollegiates at Fort Hamilton...
Yale has been exceptionally successful since taking up polo, winning the intercollegiate indoor and outdoor championships last year. This year the Blue suffered but one reverse, and that at the hands of the formidable Pennsylvania Military College Trio. In an earlier encounter the Eli team defeated the University horsemen by the narrow margin of a half point, the result of a foul. During that game the University played sensationally, and according to Colonel Browning and Captain Clark, deserved a much better fate. Yale has an experienced team, however, which has played together during, the past two years, and the Elis...