Word: poloist
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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...
...William Wellman took one good look at himself on the screen he decided he was an even worse actor than salesman, became a messenger boy for Samuel Goldwyn. When General Pershing was being shown around the lot one day he spied Wellman, whom he had known when Wellman and Poloist Tommy Hitchcock were famed for their trick of flying low over German towns and firing their machine guns at church bells. Said Pershing: "Why, Bill, you old son of a gun, how are you?" Next day Wellman was made an assistant director...