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...Hurricanes (Stephen Sanford, Eric Pedley, Capt. C. T. I. Roark, Robert E. Strawbridge Jr.): the U. S. Open Polo Championship at Meadow Brook, coming from behind with four goals in a row to beat Winston Guest and his Templetons...
...fifth period, long-legged Winston Guest, U. S. back, was ridden down by Captain Roark, pitched off his white-booted pony, thrown breathless on his back. His brother Raymond hurried out on the field, saw that the injury was not serious, ran back to stop his frantic mother who had come down from the stands to rush to her fallen son. Twice she crossed the planked boundaries, twice Raymond shushed her back. Meantime Son Winston got up, the crowd roared, he got another pony and the game was on again...
...previous period Captain Roark's little brown mare Joy Bells suddenly went lame. Helped off the field, Joy Bells was found to have a broken pastern in her right foreleg. Spectators were happy to hear that although she will never play polo again, she will not be destroyed. "For sentimental reasons" she will be carefully nursed until the leg mends, then she will pass the rest of her useful life foaling...
...since the success of The New Yorker, local weekly smartchart, have been started, last fortnight was added New Orleans.† Like most of its contemporaries, The New Orleanian candidly follows The New Yorker pattern. Its first issue showed care of preparation, uncommon taste in typographical layout. Most famed contributor: Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford, author of Ol' Man Adam & His Chillun (source of Marc Connelley's Pulitzer prize play, The Green Pastures). Instead of "The Talk of the Town" (New Yorker), the New Orleanian's first pages were headed "Uptown-Downtown-Back of Town." Instead of a "Profile...
Critics had predicted a runaway for the Americans. This did not happen. Through the first half, and until the seventh chukker. the Englishmen made it hard. Lacey's Argentine ponies outran the bigger U. S. mounts for a while; first Guest, then Roark and Hitchcock broke mallets. Lacey stole the ball from Hopping and Hitchcock for beautiful shots. What the English team lacked most was an accurate goal shooter like Pedley. Consistently the ball was fed to Balding at No. 1, but under pressure, Balding's shots were sliced, sometimes missed entirely. In the last periods...