Word: polos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bear Britannically left. In vacant lots small black boys play cricket. Inhabitants speak English with a very broad A. The British themselves do their best to carry on with the old precept of the "home away from home." After golf or tennis, they stop in at the club-the Polo (men only) or the Pickwick. The Polo provides two tables for volunteer snooker, a tattered copy of Punch, and a few low easy chairs in which members can order a whiskey-&-splash, and rehearse the good old days of rumrunning. The younger set prefer the Pickwick, for its jukebox...
...visitors had better ponies but considerably less experience than the white-shirted U.S. veterans. But at any rate, Mexico's polo-playing President Manuel Avila Camacho was satisfied that his hand-picked team of brothers-José, Alejandro, Guillermo and Gabriel Gracida-had been beaten by the best team the U.S. could muster. The scores...
Later, an Argentine polo pony trader arrived in the U.S. with a string of 24 mounts. He expected them to go like hotcakes, at $3,000 to $5,000 apiece, as they did before the war. By last week, he had not sold one. U.S. poloists had learned to appreciate the home-grown Texas cow-pony, which can run like the wind for 100 yards, stop on a dime and take a lot of punishment...
International polo used to mean the U.S. v. Argentina (and Great Britain) in a hard-riding, first-class show. The first big polo match since the war, probably due to recent diplomatic differences between Washington and Buenos Aires, was something less than that. At Long Island's International Field last week, 21,000 fans crowded the weather-beaten stands to watch a good U.S. team trounce a fair Mexican quartet for the second time in a three-match series...
...looked as if Texas would also supply its share of players. The two most promising teen-agers in the land-Larry Sheerin of San Antonio and Tom Mather of Dallas -should be ready by the time Great Britain is ready for international polo again, two years from...