Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Piddling pedallers will have little chance to rank with the winners, if past races are any indications. Some cyclists have been practicing steadily, and Alexander K. Rupp '52 rode the course in 24 minutes yesterday...
While Peiping rode the crest of victory, Nanking languished in the slough of defeat. From the Nationalist capital TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin cabled...
...hoary holdovers from the salad days of U.S. polo. The great Tommy Hitchcock, Jr. was gone (killed in a wartime plane crash in Britain) but one of his contemporaries, 45-year-old Cecil Smith, was in there riding at No. 3. Up front, his back ramrod-stiff as always, rode the old man of the team, Eric Pedley...
...like a contest between a canny, battle-weary old boxer and a wiry young puncher. The Argentines rode their ponies like gauchos at a festival, leaned spectacularly from their saddles to swipe at the ball. They led at the halfway point...
When the Argentines rode out again this week, big Roberto Cavanagh was in the lineup. He had come running after a rush call to Buenos Aires. His seven goals helped sink the U.S. veterans, 15-10. Roberto was staying around for the remaining two matches...