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Adam Walsh, line coach of the Crimson forces this fall and captain of the "Four Horsemen" team that made Notre Dame football history a decade age, was looked to by those in touch with the committee as the likeliest...
...greatest team of 1934, but as one of the greatest of all time. To many an oldster it rated with Coach "Hurry Up" Yost's "point-a-minute" Michigan teams of 1901-04, Pittsburgh's invincible 1916 combination and Notre Dame in the days of the "Four Horsemen...
...below Sun Beau's world record of $376,744 (for five seasons), they are comparable because his prizes were diminished by Depression. If Cavalcade wins the Saratoga Cup, he will be well on his way to equalling Man o' War's record. If he also wins?as horsemen last week considered him likely to do?a proposed international race against Windsor Lad, winner of the English Derby, and Admiral Drake, winner of the Grand Prix, he may well join Man o' War as the model for great U. S. racehorses of the future...
Seven crack horsemen from War Commissar Klimentiy E. Voroshilov's Red cavalry rode forth one afternoon last week on a pleasant green meadow across the river from Moscow. They dangled polo mallets from their wrists. With them rode a Philadelphia socialite who had won his one-goal rating with the Bryn Mawr Polo Club and the West Point polo team, Charles W. Thayer, personal secretary to U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt...
...widow of famed U.S. Communist John Reed who lies buried in the Kremlin wall. Two months ago he persuaded the Russian high command to tell off a squad of cavalrymen to learn polo from his secretary. He pointed out that polo was played many centuries ago by the horsemen of Tibet who gave it its name pulu. Ambassador Bullitt, in trig khaki riding breeches and a well-cut tweed coat, umpired last week's match while War Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov and Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff sat on the sidelines...