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...only Harvard player affected by the changes in the national handicap polo ratings for 1930 is E. T. Gerry '31, captain of the Harvard horsemen. His handicap was dropped from six to five F. A. Clark Jr. '29, flashy captain of last year's intercollegiate championship team, had his rating raised from four to five goals. J. P. Cotton Jr. '29, also of the championship four, now playing for the Rye Polo Club, was raised from...
...expected that Gerry will be back in the saddle for the next match, with the Lancers, next Saturday. His absence has materially weakened the Harvard horsemen to such an extent that they are far behind in the competition for the league championship...
Harvard's horsemen will engage in a match at the Commonwealth Armory this evening in which they will find their coach opposing them. Coach Sharp, who usually guides the Harvard malletmen during a game, will have an opportunity to test his charges in action...
...Wood Jr. '32. E. A. Mays, Jr. '32, B. D. White '32, and Charles Devens '32, takes its place beside the immortals of former years. George, Trevor, a recognized critic writing for the New York Sun, compares the Sophomore quartet to the 1929 edition of the Notre Dame horsemen and adds that while football history is studded with backfields as good or better than the "Four Furies" ... "we wouldn't trade Harvard's sophomore quartet for the present Notre Dame array. Mays is a shiftier carrier than Elder and almost as fleet in football clothes...
...joined in companionate marriage with their oars until the feel of the sweeps becomes an ingrained habit. Polo devotees may be forced to live, wine, and dine in the saddle, although some "softies" will no doubt feel that merely toting the mallet about will suffice to carry the horsemen to intercollegiate championships. Possibly, at some date not so far in the future, the steps of Sezer Hall at class time may be thronged with sweat-shirted students swinging baseball bats, tennis and squash rackets, javelins, 16-pound weights, lacrosse sticks, soccer balls, and chessmen...