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...English team that people expected a month ago. Aidan Roark got mastoid. Captain Richard George, another tentative No. 1, fell ill too. Barney Balding was tried out for a week. He had to quit after a bad fall. A young lieutenant of the Royal Scots Greys named Humphrey Guinness had done well as a substitute in 1927. There was nothing for it now but to put him in at back, move the veteran Lewis Lacey to No. 2-a position he had never played before when a match meant anything-leave Capt. C. T. I. Roark...
...they sit back when riding after the ball but when it comes time to hit they hoist themselves out of the saddle and smite amain. As Editor Peter Vischer of authoritative Polo says: "None of them hit from arm chairs." Balding is a long hitter and so are Pat Roark and, proverbially, Lewis Lacey. the Canadian-born Argentine. Richard George is still competing with Aidan Roard for No. 1. Like the U. S. team, the Englishmen have decided not to announce their lineup until the night before the first game (Sept. 6), The British leader, Capt. Charles H. Tremayne...
...Malmesbury, England, Captain Charles Tremayne announced for the last trial against the Army a line-up that will probably though not positively be the one that faces the U. S. in September: No. 1, Capt. Richard George; No. 2, Gerald Balding; No. 3, Capt. C. T. I. ("Pat") Roark; Back, Lewis Lacey...
...GREEN PASTURES-Marc Connelly's tremendously successful and moving adaptation of Roark Bradford's Negro biblicals...
...Author Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford, 33, descended from Massachusetts Puritans, was born in Tennessee, lives in New Orleans. During the War he was ist Lieutenant of Coast Artillery at Panama, then in France; after the War instructor in gunnery and ballistics, then newspaperman. Two months ago he resigned the Sunday editorship of the New Orleans Times-Picayune to give all his time to writing. Author Bradford's first book, Ol' Man Adam, was a success; his second, This Side of Jordan, a serious novel about Negroes, a failure...