Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presented King Alfred's Excelsior to his old friend Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan. who swanked about in it until her death five months ago. To the auction block went the armored Excelsior together with a diamond-studded vanity case, a number of floor lamps and a half-dozen polo mallets. The car brought $80 from a dealer who had an idea that sooner or later he could find...
...Varsity Polo: Saturday, May 12, Army at West Point; Saturday, May 19, Pennsylvania Military College; Saturday, May 26, Yale...
...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports has approved schedules for the junior varsity 1934 football team and the freshman soccer team. The Committee also approved a schedule for the varsity polo team for this spring. The schedules follow...
National League. Experts who last year picked the Giants to finish near the bottom of the National League had by last week voiced insubstantial guesses for 1934. After a month of training at Miami's Flamingo Park Polo Field the New York Giants last week appeared fatigued as they started toward their own Polo Grounds-named for the team's first playing field near Central Park. A livelier ball should militate against their winning pennant & World Series again this year. Manager Bill Terry's only change in a team built around four pitchers (Hubbell, Schumacher, Fitzsimmons, Parmelee...
Died. Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., 68, matriarch of U. S. polo; of complications resulting from a fall from a horse three months ago; in Aiken, S. C. Mrs. Hitchcock taught polo to her famed son "Tommy," trained among other players Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, Douglas Burden. An indomitable rider, she was acknowledged one of the most gallant sportswomen...