Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...athlete who "by his performance, example and influence' as an amateur and as a man has done most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship." There is no particular reason why these conditions should be fulfilled any better by a decathloner than by a foot-racer, polo player or yachtsman. Nonetheless, the sports experts whose poll decides the Sullivan award have come to regard it as a rare chance to make amends to decathloners for the neglect with which they are usually treated. The Sullivan award was inaugurated by the Amateur Athletic Union in 1930. Decathloner Barney...
...good at the more mechanical forms of learning, but frequently behave in ways which do not redound to their own benefit. "Cows," she continued, "catch on to things quicker, remember better. And strangely enough the cows that give the most milk are the smartest of all cows. But polo ponies make the same mistakes that draft horses do. And sheep, despite their timidity, can be taught tricks, such as taking a handkerchief out of your pocket, rolling a barrel, and shaking hands, just as easily as a horse...
...182Last summer Thomas Hitchcock Jr., 37-most famed living polo player, missed the international matches in England for the first time in 15 years because of pressing business affairs. He was no longer willing to leave the U. S. just for polo. Last week his business association since 1932 with Lehman Bros., big Manhattan investment banking house, matured into a partnership. His good friend Robert Lehman often plays polo with the great Hitchcock at Meadow Brook...
Pointing toward their first match of the season against Hartford on January 23, the Varsity Indoor polo team, captained by Francis T. Winmill, Jr. '37, entered its fourth week of practice yesterday...
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