Word: polos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Polo Grounds, NBC Telecaster Bob Stanton (TIME, May 26) decided to have a hot dog-with mustard. He had barely got it down before his doctor, who had been watching at home with disapproval, called up and scolded Stanton roundly for breaking his diet...
Family Affair. Ailing Babe Ruth himself, 15 years a Yankee player, has become a Giant fan-partly because he likes to see home runs, partly (he explains) because the Polo Grounds are closer than Yankee Stadium to his apartment on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Ruth doubts that Mize or anybody else will break his record; but if somebody has to break it, he hopes that big Jawn will be the man. Mize is Mrs. Ruth's second cousin, and the Babe would like to keep the record in the family...
Born in Rome of U.S. parents, Haseltine was raised in the saddle, once rode a polo pony up the 107 steps of the Altieri Palace just for a lark. At one time or another he owned three lions, several macaws, an Indian bull, a Syrian ram, assorted Asiatic wildcats, plenty of monkeys. Some of them he modeled...
...both England and the U.S., polo seemed to be on its last expensive, thoroughbred legs. It had never been a common man's sport, since the minimum equipment usually includes a string of ponies at a minimum of $1,500 each. Now it was getting too expensive for the rich, too. Obviously no one was going to rewrite the nation's tax laws just to save polo. Millionaire Poloist George H. Bostwick decided that the only cure for the ailing old sport was an injection of professionalism...
...Pete" Bostwick had scandalized some of polo's elders 13 years ago by putting on 50? polo matches complete with soda pop. Now he dipped into his Standard Oil millions and came up with a $5,000 purse for a handicap tournament-the first cash prize ever offered in polo. His ambition is to convert polo into a mass-appeal sport in which a man can make a living from his winnings...