Word: polos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bandy-legged Scotsmen, savage Welshmen, bounding hooligans in Dublin sandlots, to say nothing of Germans, Frenchmen, Poles, and European Hebrews, play the game of soccer. American college boys play it too, but they rarely go out to watch it, and the crowd of 46,000 that gathered in the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, last week, to see the Hakoah (Jewish) soccer team from Vienna play a team (Irish) recruited from the New York Giants and the Indiana Flooring Co., was the largest crowd that had ever watched a soccer game...
Died. Francis R. Hitchcock, 67, famed international turfman, steward of the Jockey Club, uncle of polo player Thomas Hitchcock; on board the White Star liner Olympic, en route to France to see his horses race...
...Kara Khoto is a ruined desert city, uninhabited now for some 400 years. It is mentioned by Marco Polo under the name of Edzina. In modern times it has been visited by very few Europeans, prominent among whom has been Colonel Kozlov of Petrograd who recently made such startling discoveries in Manchuria...
...holding of these intercollegiate polo games gives a clear indication of the extraordinary progress which the sport has made among college athletics during recent years. There is hardly a parallel to this sudden rise in popularity of a game in American sporting history...
...four players on the Harvard team, the present Intercollegiate champions," said a report of the United State Polo Associations. "Is such material as to have a pronounced effect on the future of the game. They are all players of considerable ability and rare promise. That they happen to be the sons of families in which polo has been played is not significant. There are as promising players at Yale and Princeton and the other institutions in the Intercollegiate Polo Association. College graduates interested in the game, who saw little or nothing of this sport in their undergraduate days, would...