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Courteous centaurs again pranced out upon the smooth surface of In- ternational Field, Meadow Brook Club, Long Island. Thousands clamored in the light blue grandstands. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. smote the first goal and the U. S. team led the British team. Hitchcock Jr. smote the second goal; and the third. He smote five goals in the game; J. Watson Webb smote two; Devereux Milburn, U. S. captain, one. Malcolm Stevenson, fourth player on the team, smote none, but played valiantly. In the seventh chukker he slipped from his horse and lay, a white figure, on the green grass. His knee...
...soft, green, magic carpet was unrolled at the Meadow Brook Club, L. I., between squat wooden structures, blue as robin's eggs. Into the squat structures poured more men with monocles than ever before gathered in one place in the U. S. Many of them wore suede shoes; blue jackets with brass buttons, and nearly all of them soft grey felt hats. With them their ladies, gay in scarlet and gold, green and white. The squat structures were nearly saturated with rich men, sportsmen, society men and their ladies, when out on the magic carpet the witch- ery which...
Major Atkinson was guardian of those goal posts for all the millions of the British Empire. With men, horses and money he and his comrades had come 11,000 miles from India to try their fortune at Meadow Brook for the International Polo...
...Providence, R. I., one Joseph de Virgilio, adult, put on a pair of stilts. As he stalked northward, his ungainly shadow flickered and staggered-first on his right, then under his stamping stilts, then finally, long and frightening, bending and kicking in a fantastic goosestep, over road and into meadow on his left. At last, in Boston, having covered 45 miles in 12 hr., 20 min.,* Joseph de Virgilio flopped down from his five-foot, 15-pound poles. His legs, swollen to far above their normal size, could not support him; he was carried moaning...
...played mostly in the country. Urchins borrow pitching gloves worn by their fathers through a career on the highschool nine, gather in a meadow, "measure a bat" for first up, compete through long summer mornings with protesting squeals and squawks that stir the catbirds to caustic music...