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...close-cropped turf of Meadowbrook Club, Westbury, L. I., the Sands Point team, headed by Thomas Hitchcock Jr., only 10-goal U. S. poloist, charged to decisive victory and a chance to cross mallets with the Hurricanes, Irish-American four. The Hurricanes, led by Irish Capt. C. T. I. Roark, internationalist who has played on Spanish, French, Irish, English, and Indian polo fields, had defeated but one team (The Roslyns) in order to meet the two-time victorious Sands Pointers in the deciding match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Open Polo | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...later still, last week, the U. S. polo team was unmercifully trounced in a practice game by a four composed of Guest, Roark, Hopping, "Laddie" Sanford. The score: 8 to 5. The question: If the U.S. team was unable to stop Guest and Sanford, how will it contrive to stop brilliant Lewis Lacey of the Argentines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Polo | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...Fixit (Eldon F. Roark) on the Memphis Press-Scimitar gave a pint of his blood to a woman who almost died in childbirth, during the Mississippi flood. He brought in two husky firemen to do likewise. ... In one month he obtained jobs for 300 people, later helped start a free municipal employment bureau. . He found homes for stray dogs; reported street cars that had flat wheels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mr. Fixit | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...second year naval officers are: Lieutenants A. B. Clark, D. W. Mitchell. Roark Montgomery, and J. H. Skillman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMY, NAVY SEEK HARVARD TRAINING | 10/26/1927 | See Source »

Will Subscriber Epstein back Reader Roark against Subscriber Blake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

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