Word: poloist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traveling expenses, hotel bills, entrance fees (sometimes as much as $100 for one event). If he competes at calf roping, he has to pay the feed bill and transportation cost of his specially trained horse (even more necessary to a calf roper than trained ponies are to a poloist). If he competes at steer wrestling, he has to hire a "hazer" (a mounted assistant to flank the steer going out of the chute...
Died. John Sanford, 88, millionaire carpet manufacturer and horse racer, father of Poloist Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford; in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., where he had gone to attend the Diamond Jubilee of the Saratoga Racing Association...
...comeback along with other Victorian fashions. Among U. S. croquet players: Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Socialite Mrs. Margaret Emerson, whose Port Washington estate is the scene of the annual Long Island croquet championship, Novelists Charles and Kathleen Norris, whose summer place is virtually built around a croquet court, Poloist John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, Social Cynosure Herbert Bayard Swope, who plays very solemn croquet with Broadway celebrities at his Long Island home, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Drama Critic Alexander Woollcott and the four Marx Brothers. Most of these play according to the Wimbledon Championship rules* and all of them take...
Died. Ray Ruddy, 27, swimmer who was considered one of the ablest water poloists in the world; day after he had fallen down a flight of stairs in his aunt's home and cracked his skull on a radiator; in Manhattan. Son of the most famed water poloist in history, Coach Joe Ruddy of the New York Athletic Club, brother of four other star swimmers, Ray Ruddy won the President's Cup for seven consecutive years, swam on three Olympic teams, won the National Long Distance Championship six years...
Polo's best. The U. S. Polo Association is a clique of moneyed, polo-playing aristocrats who not only govern the game but keep tabs on every poloist who plays well enough to compete in any of its sanctioned tournaments. Once a year these august gentlemen re-rank U. S. poloists, upping the handicaps of some, lowering those of others...