Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roslyn Polo Team (Raymond Christy Firestone, Seymour H. Knox, Harold E. Talbott Jr., William H. Post II): the Junior Polo Championship, beating the Aiken Knights 9 to 6 in the final at Rumson...
...Aiken Polo Team: four pieces of silver plate, emblematic of beating Santa Paula in a series of international matches at Chicago. Old Aiken won the first match, 14 to 11 (TIME, July 20); Santa Paula won the second 11 to 8 when Stewart Iglehart, Old Aiken No. 3, fell ill. Fifty-three-year-old James Cooley, substitute No. 1 for Old Aiken, made the deciding goal in the last minute of the last match. Score...
Onwentsia Club in smart Lake Forest, polo has been less a one-man affair, more of a game, with Broker Charles Foster Glore and Major Frederic McLaughlin (Coffee, Irene Castle's husband) as guiding spirits. There were a few Army teams to play with, but by & large Chicago polo was unorganized. Major McLaughlin last winter decided something ought to be done. He suggested to President Louis Stoddard of the U. S. Polo Association that a series of international matches be played at Onwentsia. Mr. Stoddard said that would be fine but they would have to be financed. Major McLaughlin...
...course of a practice match, a ball driven out of bounds came close to hitting Mrs. Linn. Cried she: "If they think it would help polo's publicity, I'll let one of the ponies run over...
Lake Forest went off to its cocktail and dinner parties devoutly hoping the Argentines would win on Wednesday so that there could be another Saturday game, another polo weekend...