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...hasn't exactly been an ideal season for the Harvard men's water polo team (4-5, 3-1 EWPA). Not only do the losses keep piling up game after game, but even the victories have been marred by lackluster play...
After jumping out of the pool following the Canadian East nightmare, the Harvard players were temporarily thankful to switch gears back to the United States water polo program to face Navy and Princeton on the final day of competition...
...Rolexes, the little Chanel purses and the personal chefs trained in the Pritikin diet. But in the horse country around Warrenton, Va., a lustrous green pocket one hour from Washington where the Mellons and Kennedys have homes, the wealthy have a little-known luxury. It's the imported Argentine polo player, a man who can do a lot for your game--and if you happen to be one of the available local horsewomen, escort you home afterward...
...culture of versatile Latin polo pros might have remained an obscure local custom but for one thing. Last week Susan Cummings, 35, the daughter of a billionaire arms dealer, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Roberto Villegas, 38, an internationally ranked Argentine polo star who coached her, trained her horses and played for her Ashland Farm team. On Sunday, Sept. 7, when Fauquier County authorities arrived at the 300-acre estate where Cummings and her twin sister Diana live, they found Villegas dead on the kitchen floor with multiple bullet wounds to the neck...
Villegas was the son of an Argentine farmhand who was a groom in his native country before entering the U.S. eight years ago. After playing in Florida and Texas, he became one of five Argentines on the 39-member Warrenton-area polo team. The dashing "Argies" routinely attract adoring female groupies, and the relationship between the sexy polo pro and the shy heiress was nothing unusual. Villegas and Cummings met two years ago at the Willow Run Polo school, a magnet for the Argentine players, many of whom are boarded on farms owned by the people they call their patrones...