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...barring injury, is sure to be on the team, probably at No. 3, is Hitchcock himself. The other candidates proceeded last week with practice under his watchful eye- varying groups of brilliant and often erratic individuals. Critics could only guess that on present showing the team would be Eric Pedley of California at No. 1, young Earle Hopping No. 2, Hitchcock No. 3, Winston Guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Polo | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...Hollins. No hole-in-one could have pleased her as much as the $1,500,000 testimony to her foresight and salesmanship. According to current stories, the first move she made after receiving the money was to give $50,000 of it away, $25,000 going to Poloist Eric Pedley, $25,000 to another woman. No charity, these gifts were the result of a "sportsman's agreement" two years ago that the first of the three to make $1,000,000 would give each of the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Grandpa | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...French Lick, Ind. ¶ The Argentine polo team-Manuel Andrada, Jose and Juan Reynal, Alfredo Harrington-handicapped at 23 goals, with a $250,000 string of ponies: their tenth straight game on the Pacific coast against teams of famed U. S. stars including 8-goalers Elmer Boeseke and Eric Pedley. ¶ Primo Camera, Italian brobdingnagian: a bout with one Frank Zavita in Jacksonville, Fla., by a knockout (eleventh by Camera in the U. S.) with a right to the ribs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won Mar. 31, 1930 | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

Doolittle v. Pedley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...correct (TIME, Sept. 30) in saying that Jimmy Doolittle held his own and a little more than his own in boxing Eric Pedley in his undergraduate days. But that's not all-Doolittle administered a knockout with the first blow struck after the boxers had touched gloves. It was amazing because it was so quick. Pedley was stretched flat before any of the spectators realized it. It was all the more remarkable because Doolittle was boxing out of his class in weight-a light heavyweight in the heavyweight group. The incident, which is local legend hereabouts, and much retold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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