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...both England and the U.S., polo seemed to be on its last expensive, thoroughbred legs. It had never been a common man's sport, since the minimum equipment usually includes a string of ponies at a minimum of $1,500 each. Now it was getting too expensive for the rich, too. Obviously no one was going to rewrite the nation's tax laws just to save polo. Millionaire Poloist George H. Bostwick decided that the only cure for the ailing old sport was an injection of professionalism...
Alabama's state senate tied a string to its annual appropriations for the University of Alabama and Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Auburn). It ordered the two schools to play each other at football next year or do without state funds. There has been no Alabama-Auburn football game since a free-for-all after a game 40 years...
Lending Varsity experience in the outside contests will be Bill Fitz, Varsity first baseman, and Jack Forte, first string captain and second baseman. Pitchers on Samborski's list of possible starters are Bill Harrison and Bill Foster, with either George Strout or Bill Hickey as battery mates. John Harrison is at shortstop, and Bob Carlson at third base. In the outfield George Taylor or Fred Glimp, Bob Peterson, Chip Gannon, and Dick Guidera are among the possible starters...
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Boyd Neel conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides). The English orchestra is Bach-size and plays excellently one of the most felicitous of the six Brandenburg concertos...
...matter of weeks or months, or settled by talks around a table. The theme now was "war to the death," as Nanking issued new mobilization edicts covering increased conscription, new taxes, wage and price control. The most optimistic talk was, "victory within a year," with a string...