Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem. The track already has the largest grandstand in the U. S., an "eye in the sky" to photograph close finishes at the rate of 165 frames a second, an electric totalizator to flash changing pari-mutuel odds on every race, a public address system, a polo field in the infield...
Devereux Milburn played a brilliant game at back but the team missed Harry Payne Whitney at No. 3. Under the hot sun at Meadow Brook, sitting in the stands under dainty parasols or fanning themselves with huge boaters, a crowd of 10,000 saw England's dashing polo team of four Army officers win the second straight game against the U. S. for the Westchester Cup. That was June 16, 1914. England has not won a polo game against the U. S. since...
Last week a hot sun at Hurlingham blazed on the tenth subsequent U. S. v. England polo game, second in the fifth post-War series. In the first game fortnight ago, hard-riding Hesketh Hughes had led England to glorious defeat, 9 goals to 10. Last week Hughes scored the first goal of what British experts later called the most exciting polo game ever played on British soil. Thereafter, the U. S.'s lanky back, Winston Guest, kept Hughes bottled up, while Stewart Iglehart and Michael Phipps fed the ball to Eric Pedley at No. 1. In the last...
...license. As he landed, he put on the brakes too hard, cracked up in a somersault which ruined his plane, soaked him in gasoline, bruised his hand. Pooh-poohing the injury, he hustled off to a banquet, remarked: "I am used to getting hurt. In 20 years of polo-playing I was knocked out 15 times and sometimes for long periods. I got a fractured skull, a broken back and other injuries, and a little thing like this does not bother me." Two days later he took a flying examination, became the first U. S. Governor to get a license...
Hero of Hurlingham turned out to be Hesketh Hughes, a Welshman who learned his polo in the Argentine and looks like Golfer Gene Sarazen. A scrimmaging, scuffling, head-on player, with no finesse but prodigious determination, Hughes kept bunting shots past Winston Guest, who played at back as though he thought his opposing No. 1 were not worth bothering with. When, in the fourth chukker, chunky little Hughes poked the ball between the posts three times, England was only a goal behind. When Guinness scored again for England in the sixth, the score was tied at 7-all, and what...