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...first outdoor event of the polo season, officials of the Intercollegiate Polo Association expect the largest crowd of spectators that has ever witnessed a college match. Many prominent sportsmen are to be present among whom will probably be Mayor James J. Walker, of New York City. His honor has been asked to throw out the ball for the first flit. The New York official is known to be an ardent polo fan, and will attend his engagements permit...
...Myopia matches have been added to the regular schedule by Manager E. W. Mudge '27 in order to secure more practice before the supreme test of the intercollegiates. The encounters will take place on. Thursday and Saturday of this week against a team made up of North Share sportsmen. The same Crimson team that sees action today will probably be in the saddles at Myopia. Against them Dudley Rogers, Shaw McKane, his brother Harvey McKane, and Frederick Prince will ride, all Poloists of considerable experience...
...which convinces a man or woman that one horse will travel a certain distance in a briefer period than several other horses. Two of his characters are habitues of the tracks; another is a stony old justice of the peace who believes betting sinful. The efforts of the young sportsmen to alter the old man's opinion, plus their efforts to marry young women of his household, compose the play's development. 0. P. Heggie is the leading player, though a relatively obscure actor named Walter Kingsford gives the best performance. The Sport of Kings is only funny...
Last week, in Fort Worth, Tex., the ponderous right hand of World's Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey described a motion that sportsmen had begun to believe it might never describe again. After hours spent thrashing the harvest in advance, Champion Dempsey reached for a pen and signed an agreement to fight another fight. A second dotted line was signed by Promoter Tex Rickard of Manhattan. No place, no opponent was named, but Dempsey committed himself to encounter either of the two logical challengers-Gene Tunney or Harry Wills-and Rickard indicated that either his New Madison Square Garden...
...vulgarly offensive***, just as your libelous reference to Lacoste as a dissipated Frenchman" whose "face showed all too clearly his partiality for the vices that infect his country." We have known the French players for years and there is nothing to justify these insults. They are the cleanest of sportsmen and clearly outplayed our best experts in the recent matches at the Seventh Regiment Armory...