Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With little or no prospect of international polo in the U. S. next summer, last week's annual meeting of the U. S. Polo Association was one of the quietest on record. After re-electing last year's officers, the Association accepted the recommendations of the Handicap Committee, which left only 15 U. S. poloists ranked in the ''internationalist" class (seven goals or more). Highest, of course, was Thomas Hitchcock Jr., who has been one of the world's three ten-goal players since 1922.* Sport-writers who thought his play had declined were more...
Akamazoo, the most spirited horse on the Harvard polo squad, died yesterday. The deep grief felt in the Harvard stables indicates the esteenf in which this chestnut-brown pony was held. It was this plucky beast which lead the Crimson attack on the Lancers on Saturday, and from its back Captain F. S. Nicholas '33 was able to score six goals...
...being decidedly astonished at this romantic turn of events. Delicious is a fair example of their work. As soon as Miss Gaynor is seen, as a Scottish immigrant girl named Heather flitting about the steerage of a liner bound for the U. S., you know that Farrell, a polo-player returning to Long Island, will presently make his appearance from the first-class decks. You surmise that minor difficulties?an immigration official who wants to keep Miss Gaynor outside the U. S., and a blonde who wants to keep Mr. Farrell?will separate them temporarily. Though you might not guess...
...social connections in Manhattan, protégeé of Sir Thomas Glen-Coats. They had no trouble in finding such powerful patrons as Mayor James John Walker, Financier Francis Patrick Garvan, Lawyers Dudley Field Malone and Frank P. Walsh, Critic Ernest Boyd, Sportsman Aiden Roark (of the British International Polo team), Actor Dudley Digges, the widow of Author Donn Byrne (now Mrs. M. M. Willoughby Craig) and Socialites like Mrs. Walter A. Burke, Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey. By the time the Museum opened last week, several non-Hibernian names often connected with Culture in New York had been added...
Going down to defeat before a hard riding trio of Battery A polo players, the Harvard Freshman polo team lost in the Commonwealth Armory in Boston on Saturday night. The malletmen were at the small end of an 8 to 16 1-2 point score when the game in the Greater Boston Class B League came to a close...