Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before complete figures had been added up, it looked last week as though both major leagues had had the most profitable summer on record. Last fortnight, a crowd of 67,000 was the biggest that ever jammed the 40-year-old Polo Grounds for a National League game. Louisville's famed Hillerich & Bradsby factory, which makes 95% of organized baseball's bats, has this summer been turning out 1,600 more a month than usual. Upshot of the exhibition baseball game at the Olympic Games in Berlin (TIME, Aug. 24) has been increased demand for baseball paraphernalia from...
...Hubbell series last week, baseball experts were divided. Giant rooters pointed out that if National League batters who were accustomed to it could not hit the Hubbell screwball, Yankee batsmen who had never encountered it could scarcely hope to do so. Yankee enthusiasts retaliated with the argument that the Polo Grounds, where the grandstands are nearer to the plate than in the Stadium, would suit home run experts like Gehrig, Joe Di Maggio, Bill Dickey. Hired to sign stories for Hearst sport pages, Pitcher Hubbell and First Baseman Gehrig met in the syndicate's office in Manhattan. Said First...
...first game of the two-out-of-three series for polo's Cup of the Americas last fortnight, Greentree, representing the U. S., was roundly beaten by Argentina, 21-to-9. There were two reasons for the defeat (TIME, Sept. 28). One was the superiority of the Argentine ponies. The other was the superiority of the Argentine players...
...borrowing five new mounts last week, Greentree at least tried to repair the first defect. The second was irreparable. In arranging the series the U. S. Polo Association had agreed to let the winners of the U. S. Open Championship represent the country. By substituting Winston Guest for Jock Whitney at Back and Stewart Iglehart for Gerald Balding at No. 2, the team-with Pete Bostwick and Tommy Hitchcock at Nos. 1 and 3-could have been improved but the U. S. Polo Association well knew that no such doings were permissible. Faster turf and the new U. S. mounts...
...Argentina, where cattle raising is the national industry, polo is the national sport. The majority of the game's good players are not socialites as they are in the U. S., but ganchos (cowboys). Manuel Andrada, the Babe Ruth of Argentina, is a gaucho who has been playing high-goal polo for 30 years. Gazzotti, South America's No. 1 player, is a middle-class businessman. Luis Duggan and Roberto Cavanagh are third-generation, European-schooled sons of rich Irish-Argentinian ranching families. Cavanagh, at 20, is currently considered the most promising poloist in the world...