Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held yesterday afternoon in Wadsworth House, Military Science Department. A lengthy talk was given by Captain Sharp and also short talks were made by Captain F. S. Nicholas '33, and F. E. Sondern '32, manager. A second gathering will take place Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Polo Cage near the stables on Soldiers Field...
...result of the interference of various preliminary meetings of courses, the turnout for the first meeting of aspirants for the Freshman polo squad was smaller than last year. Captain F. D. Sharp estimated that about 15 men had signified their intention of playing, a total of 11 under last year...
Rivalry between the two South American teams entered in this year's Open Polo Championship was a shade more than friendly. The Santa Paula Team, which won the Pacific Coast Open in 1930, arrived first, played at Chicago and Detroit this summer. The Anglo-Argentine Hurlingham team got to Westbury, N. Y. just in time to steal some of Santa Paula's thunder. If they played brilliantly in the Open, their accomplishments might have affected the enthusiasm with which U. S. buyers would bid for the spare-limbed, light-footed, cattle-trained ponies Santa Paula had brought with...
...England's only 10-goal player, Capt. Charles Thomas Irvine Roark, at No. 3. No. 1 man and captain was Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford; back, selected after two others had been tried, was Terence Preece, who learned the game at Westbury where his father deals in polo ponies and hunters. Santa Paula had been badly handicapped early in the tournament when chunky Manuel Andrada, captain and back, sprained his mallet-hand in an early match. They ran into more of the bad luck that always seems to follow Argentine poloists in the U. S. when their No. 1, Alfredo Harrington...
...order to satisfy the physical training requirement, members of the class of 1935 may choose from numerous elective sports; among these are lacrosse, tennis, handball, fencing, equitation, polo, soccer, squash, hiking, and single-shell rowing...