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1936-08-31 [P A-17] < % Talk in Four Formidable to U. S- Olympic Affairs: Pampas—— Harmony ♦ _ A------- ? j they mused and they reacned tne in- for credible total of 23. That gives you Will Seek to Retain Walker U. S. some idea of the whirlwind these fel- Cup DISPLAYS POWER lows can raise. have a balanced i' m. "They beautifully team, half fresh and keen, the other half experienced and seasoned. They have a string of ponies that will fill HELP the eye even In America. And they COLLEGIANS’ GRUVER is tired of los- hoft to win the mug, beat- have one of the great leaders of the yesterday balls. Today he has ing Bernie Ha Hock on the extra hole game in charge of their expedition In ing golf to a 10-footer for a bird. Revival of Polo in Europe Jack D. Nelson, president of the Ar- an ample supply, enough by canning Be Key Man him for a couple Both men scored 73 for the regulation Brundage May gentine Polo Association and a player DORIEkeep going more rounds of at least. distance. Along With Other Games of no mean repute himself. golf in Rift Golf won the second Again Closing “The advance made by the Argen- He started out at Washington Lloyd Carey his Ini- flight, licking K. Okaiaki on Seen by Writer. tines In International polo during the and Country Club by hooking Between Factions. tial tee shot out of bounds, hitting the nineteenth. The third flight last few years is'something quite ex- went Dr. M. N. BY GRANTLAND BICE. of another baU and getting on the green to Parks, who BY ALAN GOULD. traordinary in the history sport. the fact that there la only three allots. He didn’t like that beat C. Argersinger, 4 and 3. Associated Press Sports Editor. It extends back only to 1S22. That in A affair at one polo club In Germany today ao well and it didn’t help his disposi- medal-play Kenwood was the year that a small group of YORK. August 31.—Wheth- went to Henderson Dunn a and the further disheartening of tion when he got on the green and with card as sundry Olympic de- Argentine polo players English er, FROMnews (that Is, for horsemen) found his putter missing. Tommy of 74-10-64. R. L. Harris was second forecast, A. A. U. antecedents decided.to go to England velopments that the best grounds in Paris recently Webb had borrowed It, he thought. and Bernard Dennell was third. domination over this country’s to see If they could get a few games. NEW were cut up into golf holes, one might His caddie came up to the green after be chal- There was no fanfare of embark at inn. limon-pure athletics will that the Is he had At Indian Spring George Diffen- Imagine galloping game on hand to see looking for the ball which It will more than the There were no reporters and Louis Fuchs out a lenged. require somewhat on the wane In Europe. whacked out of bounds. baugh rapped loosed thus them off, no flashlights, no cameras, best ball of 67 to beat Bob Barnett scattered verbal gunfire Personally, after seeing some 30.000 "Did find that ball, boy?" asked few friends. There Just happened to you far by returning Olympians to bring turn to see the and Prank P. Reeside of Chevy Chase people out Argentines out Dorle. resembling an up- be five gentlemen shyly setting in a little about anything beat Great Britain for the Olympic "No, air, I didn’t," the boy replied. friendly golf Joust. for London, Just a bit perturbed that heaval. and whitewash them in take this and championship, successful when "Well, here, you go Brownells Take Current to an effort by they might not be Tourney. signs point the bargain, 11 to 0, I don’t think so. up to the club house and buy me all to obtain they landed on the other side of the TV/fORE links titles for the Brownell college leaders stronger rep- I believe polo wUl have a revival to the golf balls It will buy,” Dorle said, resentation arid definite Atlantic, for a team from the Pampas family of Indian Spring and in, perhaps Europe along with other sports. Cer- handing the boy a $10 bill. the American As- never had played abroad before. Manor. Seventeen-year-old Bobby, control of, Olympic tainly no sport on the Olympic pro- So now Dorle Isn’t going to before the invasion of who holds the District junior crown, sociation, Japan gram aroused greater interest among run oat of bails for a while. Won Olympics In 1924. golf and his dad. James V. Brownell, today In 1940. the spectators. "Seemed to me every time I got in It will be two however, before "'T'HE rest is history. The four play- hold the Maryland father-and-son years, Nor did interest build A the rough or In a ditch I lost a golf public up era—Jack Nelson. Lewis Lacey, championship, won at the Five Farms there can be a showdown. Meanwhile Dorle said. “So I decided to quicker In any of the Olympic sporU ball,” of the A. A. U., not only has time to Johnny and David Miles—swept Lon- course Baltimore Country Club by than in the horse events. Only a few buy enough to last me a couple rounds in but don. The that told of four stroke. The Brownell combina- put its own household order, paragraph at least.” thousand turned out for the opening tion the In opportunity, if not actual Incentive, their arrival blossomed into columns played rugged layout 77, polo match between Great Britain and ! the to break 80 for the to effect more harmonious working that still are being written. They Joe Kirchner and Jack Warner won only pair Mexico. Few people In Germany knew round. With their of relations with chief- became the toast of polo. They made their to the third round in the handicap eight ttye collegiate anything about polo and the great | way a factor In world su- Club strokes they had a net of 69. tains. stands Argentina Washington Golf and Country facing the Malfeld, where tlv> In second were Charles E. "It is well to keep in mind that premacy. team tourney, along with L. H. Whit- place polo matches were played on a per- McPhail and Eton McPbail of the host since 1924 the trend has been con- “When the Argentines won the ten and R. D. Potter. fectly miraculous new ground, seemed who had 82—9—73. sistently toward a more equitable bal- champion cup at Hurllngham they club, quite empty. Each day more people The red-hot ance of A. A. were Invited to America, and favorites—Roger power between the U. turned promptly At least four Washington golf pros up for polo, until some 20.00C Peacock and Peacock fin- and college groups in guiding the they came, adding another great are starting for Hershey, Pa., today Harry came out to watch Hungary play Ger- ished with 83—6—77. affairs of the Olympic Association,” trophy to their collection. In 1924 and tomorrow, where Thursday will many—which meant polo about half R. D. and points out Dr. Joseph E. Raycroft of they won the Olympic championship the $5,000 Hershey open. Ro- Quinter. sr., Ralph as good as you can see at Bethpage o> begin vice of who will to win the inter- an American team Quinter, jr., of Chevy Chase, scored Ptfnceton, president the Amer- PINE VALLEY N J, August 31.—Yankee divot-diggers attempt Ox at Paris, beating land MacKenrie left today, while Leo the British team here Ridge on a Sunday afternoon. 88—11—77, while Russell T. Edwards ican Olympic Committee, and advo- national golfing trophy for the ninth time in competition with invading that Included Tommy Hitchcock and Walper and Cliff Spencer will go to- Cant and Burke Edwards of Manor had cate of a "middle-of-the-road” policy. Wednesday and Thursday. Left to right, front row: Dunlap. Campbell. Ouimet, Goodman, Elmer Boeseke in a match that these morrow. Wifley Cox will arrive at A. P. Polo Expert interviewed. 90—11—79. Voigt. Back row: Yates. Smith, Fischer, Givan, White, Emery. —Copyright, Wirephoto. two still recall as one of the toughest Hershey Wednesday. ——-- the final match of the cham- Brownell a few Kiphuth Shares View. YVfHEN on record. In 1926 they again came Bobby qualified days pionship came along, more Ger- this time reached the Pittman Victor at Kenwood. ago for the national amateur cham- *rTO A GREATER extent that ever to America and mans turned out for the little man and will be one of the favor- polo than did final of our open at Meadow Brook. PITTMAN, pionship before, college men shared in the pENE Englishmen for both the international from Tex., who came to ites to win the Middle Atlantic junior councils “In 1928 the first matches for the Dallas, and management of the THE SPORTLIGHT title to be matches between England and Amer- of the Americas were at Washington back in the Spring to played at Congressional games finished. There is no rea- cup played just NETTE1 CROWN ica at historic a month on 9. Hurlingham Meadow Brook and the help Uncle Sam over the rough spots September son, as I see it. why the problems that Argentines previously. And they had a perfectly not until three terrific and who has proven to be one of the have arisen cannot be solved work- would yield by Official Plan Needed marvelous afternoon, the one- of the the Harrison’s Crown Threatened.
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