Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Varsity golf team has been permitted to compete in the New England Intercollegiate tournament at Oakley on Friday and Saturday May 17 and 18. In the Varsity polo program a scheduled match with Yale at New Haven on Thursday, May 30, has been canceled and the trio has been granted permission to compete in the Intercollegiates, from June 8 through June 15, probably in the vicinity of New York. A match with Myopia has been added for Saturday, June...
Ceramist Aitken has also served as a guide in the Ontario woods, been adopted by the Ojibway Indians with the tribal name of Lackwinni Mangoon (Lone Wolf). He teaches sculpture and plays polo at White Sulphur. He once flew a planeload of pottery from Cleveland to Newark, paddled through Germany in a kayak, crossed Austria on skis, engaged in sabre duels with the student Korps Hilaritas of Vienna. Polo, aviation, duck shooting and skeet are his favorite recreations...
...boxing instructor at Pittsburgh Athletic Association. The club had just been inaugurated [in 1911] and a night set apart for the opening of the beautiful pool. The elite of Pittsburgh were in attendance; a polo game was the exciting event. I was merely a spectator on the side lines. Ruddy punched an opponent on the nose and a reciprocal punch from his swimming antagonist caused Ruddy's nose to bleed. . . . I ordered the swimmers out of the tank and they knew their master's voice. Like a lot of sardines they crawled to the dressing room...
...Ruddy, famed water polo coach of the New York Athletic Club, insists that he not only hit Pugilist Choynsky in the eye but that he could have hit him two or three times. He firmly denies that anyone hit him (Ruddy) on the nose. Ten years after the Pittsburgh incident Ruddy met Choynsky in Chicago and Choynsky challenged him to a public fight. Ruddy said he was willing if they could make any money out of it. Nothing happened...
...following major "H's" in minor colore were given for having won minor "H's" for three years: Richard C. Boys '35 and Richard G. Fletcher, Jr. '35, in basketball; Thomas J. Davis, Jr. '35, in polo; Stanley G. Haskins '35, in squash; Roy S. Wallace, Jr. '35, in swimming; Richard W. Emory '33, in wrestling; and Edward E. Langenau '35 and Webster F. Williams, Jr. '35, in fencing...