Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Score--Harvard 33, Bates 0. Touchdowns--Nazro 2, Nevin, Locke, Crocker, Points after touchdown--Wells, Dean, Whitney. Referee, J. E. Keegan, Pittsfield. Umpire, G. H. Lowe, Lafayette. Linesman, T. J. McCabe, Holy Cross. Field judge, A. U. Bratt, Tufts. Time--Four 12-minute periods...
...Greentree polo team is named for the Long Island estate of John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, who has been trying for five years to win the National Open Championship. To help him at Meadow Brook last week, he had Cecil Calvert Smith, the hard-riding Texas cowboy who was called the greatest player of the year after the West beat the East at Chicago last August (TIME, Aug. 21, 28); and two of the Balding brothers, Gerald and Ivor, who come from England to the U. S. for every polo season...
...leaders whose position is a little bit like that of a small boy who has been given a new football. Equipped with money and mounts to outfit their teams, they select crack players for their sides. Thus last week, Greentree had reached the final by beating C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney's Westburys and Winston Guest's Templetons, who won the title last year. The Auroras, with a bye in the draw, had ridden over Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford's Hurricanes...
Evenly handicapped-25 goals for Greentree and 26 for Aurora-the finalists were almost even on the Scoreboard after the first four chukkers-6 goals for the Auroras to 5 for Whitney's team. But the crowd in the blue Meadow Brook stands had noticed two surprising differences between the teams. Seymour Knox's ponies were stretching their necks ahead of Greentree's in races for the ball and "Big Bo'' Boeseke, mounted splendidly on Red Ace, Dos de Oro and Cacique, was clearly outplaying Smith. In the seventh chukker, Boeseke barely saved himself from...
...William Robertson Coe's racehorse Osculator: the $10,000 Havre de Grace handicap at 20-to-1, by a length, from Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny'') Whitney's famed Equipoise; before a record crowd of 25,000 come to see Equipoise run his farewell race before being retired to stud. Equipoise's total winnings, $322,970, make him fourth biggest moneymaker in turf history...