Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youngsters at Hun School in Princeton, N. J. the Besler boys were usually mistaken for twins. (Now William is dark, slender; George is blond, stocky, has a mustache.) As Princeton undergraduates they played polo, learned to fly, owned planes. As graduates they became steam-engine conscious, as are all Beslers because of the family's substantial interest in Davenport Locomotive Works. They went to California and got control of Doble Steam Motor Corp., which had been in difficulties, began producing steam automobiles, steam trucks and busses. About three years ago the Beslers and their friend Clement Harts began experiments...
...Orleans tennist: the Houston invitation tournament; 7-5, 10-12, 6-2, 6-2 against George Lott in the final, after beating Clifford Sutter, third ranking U. S. player, 6-1, 2-6, 6-0, 9-11, 8-6 the day before. C Harvard's indoor polo team (Bill Mc-Guckin, Tom Davis, Fred Nicholas): the John R. Townsend Cup for the intercollegiate championship; 10½ to 1, with seven Koals in the last period, against Army in the final; in Manhattan. C George Terry Dunlap Jr., onetime intercollegiate golf champion (Princeton) : the North & South amateur championship...
...catch naps on his way to the Saratoga races, much pre- fers to tool his coach & four. This is the vehicle in which, wearing a beige derby to match his wife's beige dresses and equipped with lavish hampers of refreshments, Mr. Clark takes himself magnificently to the polo matches and race meets which decorate Long Island summers. In winter the Clarks go to Melton Mowbray for the hunting. A friendship between Mr. Clark and the Prince of Wales-who visited them in Westbury in 1924-sprang up there one morning when Mr. Clark saw a cow struggling...
...editor and business manager of Trend have helpful connections. Publisher Peter Vischer of Polo is the brother-in-law of Editor Frederick Guyn ("Fritz") Brownell, onetime general manager of the Washingtonian and editor of Buffalo Town Tidings. Adman Albert Davis Lasker is cousin to Business Manager Eugene Meier Warner. Money from Warners, Schoellkopfs and other rich & prominent Buffalonians will tide the enterprise over until the promoters decide whether they will accept advertisements, add another four pages. Five advts, claimed Trend, had already been turned down...
...Intercollegiate Polo Championship in New York tomorrow night the Varsity malletmen will meet a strong Princeton trio in their first-round match as the result of the draw, which was announced yesterday...