Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author has ridden to hounds for 35 years. Well-to-do, like most M.F.H.'s, he still goes to his old-fashioned Manhattan office to "work for his living" as a coal dealer. An all-round horseman, he har had many a nasty spill, broke his hip playing polo 14 years ago and has walked with a halting gait ever since. Says he: "I'm better on four legs than two." Of Scottish ancestry, he is prouder of being a Yankee who was born in Israel Putnam's house in Greenwich, Conn. A Ph.D., LL.D...
With six goals credited to Skiddy Von Stade, Harvard defeated the Connewood Polo team 14 to 10 Saturday at the Commonwealth Armory. In another game the Jayvees lost to the First Corps Gray beards...
...Indian Army will retain cavalry until 1939, but elsewhere British cavalrymen will exchange their bridles for handle bars or steering wheels, their whips for monkey wrenches, as fast as the whole new program of creating "mechanized cavalry" can be put through. For swank British cavalrymen that meant no more polo, unless they switch to motor-cycle polo. The social implications of this order burst last week like so many bombs in the messes of cavalry units slated for almost immediate mechanization: the King's Dragoon Guards; the Queen's Bays; the King's Own Hussars; the Queen...
Other activities follow:: Swimming 241 Squash 221 Basketball 96 Special Corrective Exercise 94 Crew 73 Track 57 Fencing 52 Boxing 50 Wrestling 48 Hockey 32 Managers 15 Gymnasium 12 Polo 8 Miscellaneous...
With an experienced, hard riding squad taking to their horses this afternoon, Harvard's varsity polo coach, Captain Charles D. Palmer, stated last night that he considered the team's chance of a victorious intercollegiate season better than it has been in some time...