Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generosity as a contributing Democrat is only equalled by his enthusiasm for the cause and, perhaps, by his ambition to hold office. He takes his politics with the same gusto that he plays bridge (he is an expert) and patronizes sport (he goes to all big fights, baseball, football, polo games in his airplane). At Houston in 1928 he threatened to beat up Rev. J. Frank Norris, a Protestant preacher acquitted of murder, who opposed the Presidential nomination of Catholic Al Smith. When Smith was nominated, Amon Carter's exuberance knew no bounds. In his exhilaration he shot...
...last week for the autumn meet of the United Hunts Racing Association. They saw Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's chestnut gelding Blot win the main event, the Manhasset Steeplechase, by a half-length. They saw Winston Guest astride Lady Newberry win a thunderous race for polo ponies after his cousin Mike Phipps fell from a slipping saddle in the stretch. But what they enjoyed most, and what many of them had come specially to see, was the four-furlong race for lady riders, an innovation in United Hunts meets...
...year Chick gave an exhibition between halves of the California-St. Mary's game, kicked 108 consecutive goals from the 10 yd. line (20 yd. from the goal posts). His Brother Bud, 12, is less interested, less proficient. Between halves of last week's game at the Polo Grounds, in which the New York Giants swamped the Philadelphia Eagles 56-to-0, Father & Son Brickley started the schoolboy kicking carnival, saw a youngster named Charles Goodell of New York's Curtis High School qualify for the finals Dec. 3 by booting four out of five over...
...Seymour ("Shorty") Knox's open championship Aurora polo team: the Monty Waterbury Memorial Cup. from "Jock" Whitney's Greentrees, 12-to-9; at Meadow Brook Club, Westbury...
...numbers in parentheses, follow: crew, 189 (202); tennis, 189, (201); swimming, 165, (88); singles, 144, (101); football, 144, (190); track, 49 (68); soccer, 48 (68); cross-country, 28 (41); fencing, 22 (88); miscellaneous, 17 (12); baseball, 13 (28); managers, 12 (listed last year under different sports); handball, 11 (15); polo, 8 (19); wrestling, 7; lacrosse...