Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...founder of Cudahy Packing Co., to buy him a little chestnut race horse from a man who owed a feed bill of $170 and wanted to sell the horse for the bill. This summer, 14-year-old "Bob" Cudahy marked out a quarter-mile track on the Onwentsia Club polo field, had the family chauffeur hold a clock while he rode his horse around it. Later he sent the horse to the racing stable of one of his father's friends, had the trainer let a jockey exercise him. Because in his nine previous starts he had never done...
Harvard's hopes for a winning Freshman polo team this year are in order since Long Island's high ranking junior malletman, F. Skiddy von Stade, Jr., has made his appearance among the dozen men out for this sport. Another man whose prospects of making the team seem good is John H. Roosevelt...
...first East-West polo matches at Chicago last year were a Century of Progress triumph. They produced two weeks of noisy entertainment by Chicago socialites and the liveliest polo in 20 years. In the second East-West series, which started at Meadow Brook, L. I. last week, the East's main consolation for producing nothing comparable in the way of excitement was the one period of magnificent polo which enabled the young team of Michael Phipps, James Mills, Winston Guest, and William Post to open the series against the heavier, more experienced Westerners, Eric Pedley, Elmer Boeseke, Cecil Smith...
Republicans in the state of New York seem to find that the best way to avoid the claws of the Tammany Tiger is to indulge in squabbles among themselves. The setting is usually on Long Island and the action rages at the cocktail hour when polo is the chief rival in discussion. This time, however, the children have completely lost their temper and the action has been transferred from pillared terraces to the dank halls of Rochester where the Convention gets underway tomorrow...
...William Averell Harriman, 42, son of the Railroad Builder Edward H. Harriman, director of 30 banking, railroad and steamship companies, noted polo player, now special assistant to General Hugh S. Johnson...