Word: polo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prime Dillingham enthusiasm is polo. He organized the Hawaii Polo & Racing Association, developed inter-island games, captained many a Hawaiian , team journeying to the mainland...
...long ago the U. S. Polo Association: called upon Hawaii for ponies for an international match. Sportsman Dillingham contributed two prize mounts, with the proviso: "If anything happens to them, we are to stand the damage." Harry Payne Whitney did his best to return this patriotic courtesy by helping Mr. Dillingham pick out some fine Virginia mares and serving them free at the Whitney stud, to give the Islands a good new strain...
...Haverford, Pa.* Women's Intercollegiate Championship†-Won by Marjorie Gladman, University of Southern California; at Boston's Longwood Cricket Club. U. S. Army Championship-Won by Maj. Robert C. Van Vliet, infantryman, Panama Canal Zone (three-time title holder); at Washington's Columbia Country Club. Polo. Intercollegiate Championship-Won by Harvard University; at Philadelphia...
...winter season was not on the whole as successful in point of major victories as might have been hoped. It was however far form devoid of achievement in Harvard sport. The University polo trio, coming undefeated through a nine game schedule, winning the Class A league championship of Boston and the intercollegiate title for the first time, was a heraled of a new era for polo at the University. The aggregate of winter contests. including Freshman and second7CROSS COUNTRY LEADER WHO WON IN INTERCOLLEGIATES J. L. REID...
Golf gave one of Dr. Horace Gray's (Chicago) middle-aged patients a pain in the back. Then another patient came in with the same sort of ache at the base of his spine. And shortly a third. But the last was a polo player. The three were enough for Dr. Gray to decide that he had discovered a new recreational malady - wrenched backs in men between 35 and 45 - and he hastened last week to notify the profession. Quick swings of the polo mallet twist stiffened spines. In golf the cause is the "brisk, snappy twist...