Word: poloed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been re-christened Elaine's. A minor New York City official in Mayor Lindsay's administration named John Scanlon appears as the bartender, and Dan Greenburg, author of How to Be a Jewish Mother, plays the editor of the Tomb stone Epitaph. They stand out like two polo players at a rodeo...
...Bicycle polo was first played 80 years ago in Ireland, on a field fittingly called
...where the charter club was organized at Milton, Mass., in 1897. In the intervening years, it had brief periods of popularity and was kept alive during its several down cycles largely through the efforts of the Aiken Preparatory School of Aiken, S.C., which uses it to help teach regulation polo. Explains Carlos Concheso, a New York banker and one of the founders of the U.S.B.P.A.: "It's a good way to develop a feel for the fundamentals, especially for the teamwork that is so necessary...
Winded Riders. In the past few years the inflation (polo ponies cost about $750 to $1,000) and the increasing popularity of bicycling have given bicycle polo a new shot in the arm. Clubs have been organized in California, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York, where the U.S.B.P.A. holds practice sessions in Central Park every Tuesday and runs tournaments during weekends on Long Island...
Though bicycle polo is inexpensive enough for almost anyone, most of its aficionados so far are relatively affluent. In Southampton, for example, the crowd is very social indeed, but weekday practice sessions in Manhattan's Central Park are somewhat more democratic: volunteers are allowed to join the fun when one of the riders becomes winded. Occasionally a pony-polo expert decides to give the game a try. He is usually disappointed. "It's easier on horseback," a high-ranking rider from Colombia discovered last week. "You don't have to pedal the horse...