Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greentree polo team is named for the Long Island estate of John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, who has been trying for five years to win the National Open Championship. To help him at Meadow Brook last week, he had Cecil Calvert Smith, the hard-riding Texas cowboy who was called the greatest player of the year after the West beat the East at Chicago last August (TIME, Aug. 21, 28); and two of the Balding brothers, Gerald and Ivor, who come from England to the U. S. for every polo season...
...Auroras are led by wiry little Banker Seymour Horace ("Shorty'') Knox, of Buffalo's East Aurora Polo Club. There were no other Buffalonians on his team last week. His back was large, smiling Elmer J. Boeseke Jr. of California. Between Knox at No. 1 and Boeseke were two Long Islanders, Jimmy Mills and Elbridge ("Ebby") Gerry...
They were the finalists in last week's National Open Polo Championship. In polo, "Open" has a special meaning. There are no professionals in the game. Teams for the Open are organized by leaders whose position is a little bit like that of a small boy who has been given a new football. Equipped with money and mounts to outfit their teams, they select crack players for their sides. Thus last week, Greentree had reached the final by beating C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney's Westburys and Winston Guest's Templetons, who won the title last year...
...some, if not all, of the Lapham representatives," roared Mr. Holmes. To Mr. Holmes the most sinister in fluence in Texaco is Jack Lapham. A slim, blue-eyed, soft-spoken man of 51, whose father was one of Texaco's founders, Jack Lapham lives in Austin, plays polo, flies his own planes. Though no single one of Texaco's 90,000 stockholders owns more than a 2% interest, the Lapham family owns 250,000 shares of the 9.000,000 out standing. With nothing particular to do Jack Lapham has always liked to spend his time on Texaco affairs...
...Pinedo's acclaim. Some say it was because de Pinedo "forgot" about a half-million-lire fund raised for him by Italo-Americans to buy a new plane. Italo's hero was suddenly, drastically demoted, attached ob- scurely to the embassy in Buenos Aires. There he played polo and hunted. He kept his peace with good grace until this year-the year of Balbo's triumphal armada flight-he appeared in New York intent to the point of desperation on flying farther than any man had flown, all alone...