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History. In 1886 the Westchester Polo Club of Newport and the Hurlingham Club, centre of English polo, had a private argument. Polo at that time was unnoticed in the U. S. A handful of sportsmen, including Thomas Hitchcock Sr., "picked up a team" and were soundly trounced by the better trained and better mounted Britons. For 14 years polo continued unnoticed. In 1900 a group of U. S. citizens residing abroad picked up a team and played & lost a single game to the British. Two years later international polo really started when a team headed by Foxhall Keene of Philadelphia...
...dise: "More deer than any white man ever saw in the State . . . 30, 000 to 40,000 pheasants in Salt Lake and Utah counties this fall... the largest fish producing plant in the United States." Utah has public shooting grounds of 12,000 acres with accommodations for 1,000 sportsmen...
Although "shooting over dogs" is the most time-sanctioned method, it is now entirely passe, chiefly because smart, modern sportsmen no longer want to trudge after dogs which advance before them, flushing or scaring up the birds...
When the flushed birds have been winged, a motor lorry will roll up. A butler materializes. Soon the sportsmen are regaled with "high" game, with meats that are rare and bloody in a fashionably virile sense, and with champagne iced in a portable refrigerator...
...generally agreed that this has been a bad season for those Cambridge sportsmen whose favorite pastime is lying on the boathouse dock under the benefit and browning influence of the sun; it has been a cool and cloudy May. With the approach of examinations, however, Sol makes a belated appearance, and sculling is open once more for those who believe in a clear head as the best preparation for a mental ordeal; and once more the tannery on the Charles is doing a good business in idleness and early sunburns...