Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Footing the bill for all this was one of the leading squash racquet and polo players in the U. S., Seymour Horace Knox. Son of a Woolworth partner and a potent investment banker in his own right, Poloist Knox has a burning ambition to make East Aurora and the Buffalo district as famed for polo as Long Island. He was captain of the squash racquets team sent to Britain in 1935. His active interest in art is recent. To date his private collection consists of one Utrillo bought a few months ago, and the collector...
...John R. Huffman, researcher in Chemistry at Columbia University; for the third successive year the national three-weapon (foil, épée, sabre) fencing championship of the U. S. from a field of 29; at the Fencers Club, New York. ¶West Point's polo team: its 27th consecutive victory, beating Yale, 12-to-9: at West Point...
Faced by Skiddy Von Stade's eight goals and abetted by a pony's clever footwork Harvard's best Varsity polo team in more than a decade swept to a 17 1-2 to 14 victory over the Governor's House Guard officers at the Cavalry Armory in West Hartford Saturday night...
Three hot dog vendors at Manhattan's Yankee Stadium and Polo Grounds received more ($30,000 to $34,999) than Pitchers Lefty Gomez ($20,000) and Carl Hubbell ($17,500). From Hal Roach Studios fat Funnyman Oliver Hardy had received only about half as much ($85,316) as his slender colleague Stan Laurel ($156,266). Henry Ford drew no salary from Ford Motor Co., while Son Edsel's $100,376 was topped by Ford's Vice President P. E. Martin ($128,008) and General Manager Charles E. Sorensen ($115,100). Pundit Walter Lippmann of the New York...
Readers of his Lives of a Bengal Lancer will remember that ex-Lancer Yeats-Brown was not only an enthusiastic polo-player and pig-sticker but an amateur of Hindu mysticism. In Lancer at Large, an account of India revised after 15 years, Hollywood will be hard put to it to find any material at all. At 50, Yeats-Brown approached India not as a sporty subaltern but as an inquiring disciple...