Word: polos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday's whirlwind demonstration at the Polo Grounds against Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was typical of the American mob in its most blind and unreasoning mood. Under authority vested in them by the rules of big league baseball, the umpires have the power to call a game on account of darkness, and acting under this authority the umpires called the second game in the World's Series, when the score stood three all at the end of the tenth inning. Darkness was falling fast, and in the opinion of the umpires a continuance of play for another inning was impossible...
During the summer a riding ring has been built on Soldiers Field by the Military Science Department, consisting of a large sawdust ring, surrounded by an eight-foot fence. A polo cage has also been built, for the instruction of advanced students in the principles of the game...
...large number of men who will be available in the spring are now engaged in football and will be unable to report for fall practice. George Owen '23, who was elected captain of the 1923 nine immediately after the last Yale game at the Polo Grounuds, will not report until the spring but he will certainly fill his old berth at first base. L. C. Larrabee '24 and Thorwald Sanchez '24 will be the mainstays of the fall catching staff while A. W. Samborski '25 who caught on the Freshman team last year will also be available in the spring...
...greatest improvement, however, is in the quality of the horses. Nineteen of the inferior animals have been disposed of and their places have been filled by 21 Montana ponies of the polo type. At present a polo practice cage is under construction in order that students may be able to learn the rudiments of stick work...
...this sort of jest is enough, and incidentally, the ability to appreciate the joke does not decide anything definite about the relative merits of the two teams. The game will be played today, the heavens permitting, or Saturday, but wherever finally staged, in New Haven or at the Polo Grounds, it will be a Harvard-Yale game, and as such worth waiting for a week...