Word: polos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really Joe Louis' last fight, it was fought like a summary of his ring career. He knocked out Lou Nova with a murderous right, in the sixth round, before 60,000 chilly and disappointed people in New York City's Polo Grounds. They had come, if not to see Joe licked, at least to see a fight between equals. But like 46 men before him, Nova was just a tackling dummy at the finish...
Died. Foxhall Parker Keene, 74, onetime leading U.S. poloist, member of the first U.S. international polo team in 1886; at Ayer's Cliff, Quebec...
...five round of deliberate stalking, heavyweight Joe Louis exploded a straight right punch on Lou Nova's chin that blasted the California challenger's dreams and readled him for the technical knockout that came one second before the end of the sixth round in their title fight at the Polo Grounds tonight...
Like a railroad train in the '60s, each Clipper arrival is big news. In Manila, society weddings are timed to coincide with the arrival by Clipper of New York bridesmaids' gowns. A game at the Manila Polo Club was on schedule recently because a box of polo balls, delayed in shipment, was replaced by another brought by Clipper...
...Phippses (Mike & Ben), Charley von Stade and Alan Corey Jr. (galloping together under the name of Gulf Stream): the National Open Polo Championship; defeating Ebby Gerry's Aknusti four (three Gerry brothers and Pete Bostwick) in the final, 10-to-6; at Long Island's Meadow Brook Club...