Word: polos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...majors have had fewer problems. The only night games affected by the sea-coast dimout are those held at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field and Manhattan's Polo Grounds, where the Dodgers and Giants now play at twilight instead. Some big-league stars have walked off to war; many more will follow. But up from the minors have come a bumper crop of rookies who have helped fans forget the Greenbergs, Fellers, Padgetts, Travises...
...first, played in Manhattan's Polo Grounds between a thunderstorm and a blackout, was all-civilian: between picked teams of American and National Leaguers. The Americans, hopping on the National's super-duper Pitcher Morton Cooper before he had worked the dampness out of his mighty right arm, scored three runs in the first inning, starting with a homer by Cleveland's Lou Boudreau on the second pitch. That was enough to win the game (3-to-1) and the chance to represent the big leagues in the skirmish with Uncle Sam's club in Cleveland...
There were 17,000 punters at Winnipeg's Polo Park one afternoon last week. But when the bugle called six of Canada's classiest three-year-olds to the post for the 13th running of the Canadian Derby, there was nobody at the pari-mutuel windows. Reason: touted Ten to Ace, shipped west from Toronto, was so overwhelmingly favored that track officials had declared the race a "no-betting" affair...
...Stanford University in the early '30s, Will Jr. set a 100-yd. backstroke swimming record that still stands, was a four-goal man on the polo team. For a while he edited an off-the-campus paper stridently called New, once scooped the college and West Coast newspapers by tracking down a "kidnapped" college queen. He graduated from college in 1935, the year his father died with Wiley Post in the Point Barrow, Alaska plane crash. With his share of the estate he bought the Citizen, was a full-fledged publisher at 23. He kept a union shop, covered...
Appointed: Polo's famed Major Tommy Hitchcock, as assistant military attaché for air, in London...