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Bates will arrive here on Friday morning and will take a short drill on the Stadium turf in the afternoon. That the team from Maine will be no setup is shown by the fact that their forward wall, led by 218-pound Harris Howe, giant tackle, averages 188 pounds. Their backfield however is extremely light, averaging only 155 per man. This is mainly due to the fact that Borstein, diminutive little quarter-back, weighs only 119 pounds...
...Getting his goat" originated on the turf. Race horses, high-strung, feel more at ease if constantly attended by a fellow animal. A cheap, tractable animal, easy to feed, taking up small room in a stall, is the goat. Many a racehorse, especially in England, has had a goat for stall-mate. Turf crooks long ago found that few things will upset a horse more than to ''get his goat" (take it away) the night before the race...
...Open Polo Championship last week reached its final round. Across the close-cropped turf of Meadowbrook Club, Westbury, L. I., the Sands Point team, headed by Thomas Hitchcock Jr., only 10-goal U. S. poloist, charged to decisive victory and a chance to cross mallets with the Hurricanes, Irish-American four. The Hurricanes, led by Irish Capt. C. T. I. Roark, internationalist who has played on Spanish, French, Irish, English, and Indian polo fields, had defeated but one team (The Roslyns) in order to meet the two-time victorious Sands Pointers in the deciding match...
...stands were trained particularly on the English players, neglected best U. S. stickmen, eager college boy contestants. The Englishmen, as everyone knew, were potential internationalists who will enter next year's international play. They had been sent to play in tournaments, to get the feel of U. S. turf, to study U. S. play and players. In addition to Capt. Roark, sure to be among next year's challengers, were bespectacled Cecil Balding, wing commander Percival K. Wise, tattooed 9-goalman and Capt. Charles H. Tremayne, recently-chosen leader of the Internationals...
...morning of "The Twelfth" found these and hundreds of others on their different moors, seated two by two in the line of grouse butts-little crescent shaped turf bunkers facing the grouse coverts. Three-quarters of a mile away the beaters started moving toward them, a line of schoolboys and gillies waving flags, beating dishpans. Crouched in the bottom of each butt was a nimble-fingered loader, ready to hand each "gun" his second weapon. Began the fastest most difficult wing shooting in the world. Flying 50 miles an hour, like rocketing black bullets, grouse zoomed straight over the butts...