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Polo Facts. Polo mallets are croquet mallets, extremely stretched. The long handles are of flexible bamboo and the head of wood. It is the erroneous impression of many people, even after witnessing a game, that the ball (wood, about indoor baseball size) is hit with the nose of the mallet. This would be practically impossible; the nose of a polo mallet is not two inches in diameter. The ball is hit with the side of the mallet, preferably just where the handle joins. When it is hit between the goal posts at the end of the field (flat turf...
...stuff to me, rolling little balls on the ground and not even socking anything with them! And then you have to insult all the decent men who, like myself, think real bowling is not only good exercise but good he-man sport: "bowling or tenpins, playe 1 now in indoor alleys by barflies and roustabouts." I don't claim to be any dude but I am no barfly and I BOWL, IN AN ALLEY. Now here's where TIME lay down last week: in the SPORTS department were only that story about the bowling for old ladies...
...over a smooth patch of turf, was awarded to Buffalo. In these championship matches the game was a network of rules and conventions. As in all modern bowling-on-the-green, however, the general procedure was this: the first player, or lead, sent his bowl-the size of an indoor baseball-into one of the rinks marked off on a 40-yard square green in an effort to hit the "jack" or to rest as near it as possible. Following players, up to the number of four, tried also to hit the jack, or to knock opponents' bowls into...
Gradually rules rather than decorative diversion came to govern the sport. There grew to be two main divisions-the one called "bowling" or "ten-pins," playe'd now in indoor alleys by barflies and roustabouts; the other called "Bowls" or "Bowling-on-the-Green," a handsome recreation for gentlemen, a game which in tempo compares with other present-day exercises, as the courante compares to the Charleston. It is played now by members of the Elizabethan Club at Yale University, and by the members of many an old, austere and gentle club, who are too antique for the frantic...
...National Junior Tennis Champion. Shields, New York youth, ploughed through five bitter sets at Forest Hills, L. I., to win 7-5, 6-8, 5-7, 6-0, 6-4, from Julius Seligson, also New York. Shields was tired but happy. Last winter he was beaten for the Indoor Junior championship by this same Seligson...