Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refuse." That he will skimp it, let technicians do all the dirty work, can be suspected only by persons who have never seen tough-minded, tough-muscled Poet MacLeish at work; who do not know that he was a field artillery captain in the War, before that played water polo and football for Yale...
...when the first international polo matches between England and the U. S. were played at Newport, they caused so little stir that a team of British cricketers, visiting the U. S. at the same time, did not know until they returned home that a team of British poloists had been almost within batting distance of them. Last week, when the twelfth series of matches for the Westchester Cup* took place at the Meadow Brook Club on Long Island, it was the No. 1 international sporting event on the U. S. calendar...
...them to the U. S. six months in advance so that they could get acclimated, sent their best poloists almost half way round the world to California for four months of tuning-up matches against U. S. players. The 36-man, 64-horse expedition cost Britain's Hurlingham Polo Association...
Last week the 20,000 polo enthusiasts sitting in Meadow Brook's turquoise-blue stands realized-a little sadly-that even this, Britain's best-of-all teams since the War (Bob Skene, Aidan Roark, Gerald Balding, Eric Tyrrell-Martin) was no match for the U. S. four: Mike Phipps, Tommy Hitchcock, Stewart Iglehart, Winston Guest. Fortnight ago, in the first of the two-out-of-three-game series, they were trounced 11-to-7. Last week the drubbing was even worse. The U. S. side won, 9-to-4, retained the Cup that has not crossed...
Despite a strong last chukker rally which netted them six goals, the Harvard polo team found itself on the short end of a 12 to 7 score to a hard-riding Eli quartet in New Harvard Saturday, Gay Dillingham of Harvard was the game's individual star with six goals, and Yale's Captain Johnson was a defensive standout...