Word: polo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University polo insignia to--J. P. Mandell '29, who was killed in a polo accident at Dedham during the summer vacation...
...most recent of the many indications that have accumulated to mark a decline in certain fields of professional sport. New York sport pages and individual columnists alike reflect the trend of the times with a tendency toward an Increasing emphasis upon amateur sports, upon tennis and golf and polo, that must be of some significance to the public at large, but of even more consequence to the collegiate world in which the best of amateur sport in certain fields is to be found...
...Open Polo Championship last week reached its final round. Across the close-cropped turf of Meadowbrook Club, Westbury, L. I., the Sands Point team, headed by Thomas Hitchcock Jr., only 10-goal U. S. poloist, charged to decisive victory and a chance to cross mallets with the Hurricanes, Irish-American four. The Hurricanes, led by Irish Capt. C. T. I. Roark, internationalist who has played on Spanish, French, Irish, English, and Indian polo fields, had defeated but one team (The Roslyns) in order to meet the two-time victorious Sands Pointers in the deciding match...
Surprisingly enough, polo enthusiasts were last week thinking less of the approaching finals than of the poor showing of the Eastcott team, three-quarters English, which was easily eliminated by Hitchcock's four in the opening match of the series. Whether by some inherent strain of grace which prevents Englishmen from making final, unlovely exertions, or by some inscrutable play of chance, U. S. polo had again shown itself indomitably superior to British play. Since 1927 hard-riding gentlemen from the British Isles, traditional home of the polo-minded, have twice tried to capture the International trophy from...
...Waterbury Cup series, also begun last week at Westbury, and in importance second only to the Open, the National Junior Championship youngsters who call themselves the Old Aikens trounced them 16-8. Old Aikens' victory coupled with the early elimination of the Englishmen in the Open series discouraged polo-observers from predicting formidable 1930 opposition from overseas...