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Polo was off to a flying start yesterday when six veterans and eight other potential mallet swingers reported to Captain Chester E. Sargent, polo coach, at the Commonwealth Armory for the first practice session of the current season...
Died. Colonel Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, 58, senior partner of G.M.-P. Murphy & Co., World War U. S. Red Cross Commissioner and lieutenant colonel in the A.E.F.; of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1921 Grayson Murphy laid the foundation of his financial reputation by skillfully reorganizing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Last year a committee he headed salvaged for debenture holders what little there was to be salvaged from the Kreuger & Toll disaster. Little known outside of Wall Street, Grayson Murphy was not only a Republican who shot grouse in Scotland, but in 1928 a Liberal (meaning wet) Republican...
...goal Sonny both playing Back. In the first two chukkers, Sonny succeeded remarkably well in holding back Greentree's Tommy Hitchcock, Pete Bostwick and Gerald Balding. Cousin Jock was less successful. In the third chukker Sonny suddenly cut in, took the ball away from Hitchcock, swung his mallet. Smack! The ball scooted between the goal posts for the only Whitney-made score of the match. By the end of the seventh chukker, Old Westbury, with the aid of Mike Phipps's five goals, was leading Greentree...
...longest driver in golf, wore the same green socks every day, washing them himself at night. His conviction that they brought him luck was not contradicted by victories over Henry Picard, Harold McSpaden, Craig Wood. Wild Bill Melhorn appeared with a putter that had a head like a croquet mallet. With it he putted well enough to be two up with four to play in his semi-final match with Denny Shute. Shute won on the 36th green. Next morning he and Thomson went out on the fragrant No. 2 course at Pinehurst, to play the final of the Professional...
...Regents are some of France's best financial brains, including François de Wendel (coal, steel, munitions), the Marquis de Vogüe (Suez Canal Co.. chemicals). President René Duchemin of the French Manufacturers' Association, Robert Darblay (paper), Louis Blanc (casinos) and Ernest Mallet, current representative of a banking family which has had a member on the board since the Bank's foundation, 136 years ago. To gether the old Regents are worth probably 7,000,000,000 francs...