Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago this week, on the night of July 7, a Japanese private went A. W. O. L. from the maneuvers of his regiment at the Marco Polo bridge, ten miles from China's old northern capital of Peking. Apparently he had slipped off to visit a brothel, but the Japanese accused the Chinese of abducting him and holding him in the city of Wanping. Next day, although the missing man had long since taken his place in line, Japanese troops opened fire outside the east gate of the city...
...York's Westchester Polo Club whose first playing field was at the Jerome Park race track in Westchester County. Later the club moved to a field on 156th Street, Manhattan, still known as the Polo Grounds although it is the ball-park of the New York Giants...
...year's series was the same towheaded titan who was the hero of the first post-War series in 1921 and every series since (except 1936 when he was too busy to go abroad to play): Thomas Hitchcock Jr. Son of the captain of the first U. S. polo team (that lost to England in 1886), Tommy Jr., at 39-and after a quarter-century of competitive polo-proved last week that he is still the best polo player in the world. Spectators, gasping at his fearless riding, peerless tactics, magnificent driving and accurate shotmaking, realized...
...less astonished were the 7,000 spectators who were sitting in the stands at New York's Polo Grounds. They had never seen anything like that crazy fourth inning. Neither had anyone else-for no team in the history of major-league baseball had ever chalked up five homers in one inning...
Falling behind rapidly after holding the favored Elis to a 4 to 4 halftime tie, the Crimson polo quartet went down to a 12 to 5 defeat and lost the national intercollegiate championship which it won last year...