Word: mallets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Changes in the handicaps of America's polo players were announced last night by the Handicap Committee of the Polo Association. W. C. Guest, captain of the Yale mallet men and a player on Stephen Sanford's Hurricanes, earned a three point increase in his handicap. He now ranks among the six goal men. C. R. Barrett, number 2 man on the Yale team, has been raised from two to three goals...
...High Princes") intimidated back into contact with the world. Not until two years later did Townsend Harris, as U. S. Consul General, raise at Kakisaki, near Shimoda, the first consular flag ever unfurled in Japan. Despatches told last week that many a parchment skinned workman is chipping with light mallet and fine chisel at a granite memorial to be unveiled on completion at the spot where Mr. Harris raised his standard...
PLAIN TALES OP THE NORTH- Thierry Mallet-Putnam ($2). Captain Mallet is president of a fur company (Revillon Freres) whose flag, flapping at the masthead of a trading schooner, has been watched for and hailed by Indians and Eskimos on the headlands of Labrador and Hudson's Bay for two centuries. Besides traveling in Siberia and soldiering in France, Captain Mallet has visited these hardy trappers many times. Evidently he has found time for good reading on his trips, or maybe it is through his Gallic inheritance that he comes by the lucid, restrained prose in which, a page...
Polo. Alfonso XIII, 40, probably the only living sovereign young enough to ride a pirouetting polo pony, played back, one afternoon, for the polo team of the 65th Lancers against the 7th Hussars. With a potent swipe of the royal mallet he split a polo ball both halves of which rolled over the goal line. By that goal the Lancers...
...ball or the first tile which will be the Harvard-Princeton match, starting at 3 o'clock. The New York executive is an ardent polo fan and is expected to be on hand to open the tournament. Following the University's clash with the Nassau quartet, the West Point mallet men will take the field against the Pennsylvania Military College team. Officials of the Intercollegiate Polo "Association expect the coming tournament to draw the largest gathering of spectators that has ever witnessed a college match. The Intercollegiate event is the first important polo tournament of the outdoor season...