Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cards, though, are the U. S. Amateur Golf Championship at Garden City next week, the polo matches with Argentina at Meadow Brook next fortnight, and the 400-mile international auto race at Roosevelt Field next month. Last week, at Meadow Brook, the Open Polo Championship series ended. Last week also, International Tennis, a leisurely international carnival in whose circuit the other stops are Melbourne and Nice, Auteuil and Wimbledon, paused at the flat and singularly unarboreal New York suburb of Forest Hills, to play its last major engagement of the year-the Singles Championship...
...have a wedding present for you.' . . . I closed my eyes . . . felt something cold being pressed against my left temple. . . . Opening my eyes I saw that it was actually a revolver. . . . I felt the bullet plow into my head." In another bed in the same hospital lay his polo-playing son-in-law Donald Burdick, 39, whom milkmen had found unconscious in the wreck of an automobile, morning after the shooting. Moaned he: "I'll be ready to talk when I feel better...
...Polo's brightest season started last June when the U. S. beat England at Hurlingham. It continued at Berlin, where Argentina won the Olympic tournament, in which no U. S. team was entered. Last week, Polo moved to Long Island for the U. S. Open Championship. This year the Open has an extra significance: the winner will represent the U. S. against Argentina in the year's second major international series, the Cup of the Americas, starting at Meadow Brook Sept. 19. In last week's first-round matches, all played the same afternoon on three fields...
...Open Polo Championship is a misnomer. If the popularity of a game were measured by the number of people who would like to play it, polo might be the U. S. national pastime. As it is, a generous estimate would put the total number of U. S. poloists at 5,000. Of the 5,000- because at least half the responsibility in polo is the pony's, and a good string, properly equipped, costs $25,000-all but some 500 play a variety of polo which compares to what was going on on Long Island last week...
...What polo means to the rest of the world is in reverse ratio to its importance in that enameled frieze of polite 20th Century pleasure that constitutes September social life on Long Island. Deserted through muggy August days while the fog horns mooed unhappily along the Sound, the big Georgian houses along the North Shore were last week filled again, lighted for parties through cool evenings as their owners returned from Newport, Saratoga, Maine and Europe...