Sport: Polo Handicaps

The Board of Governors of the U. S. Polo Association, the men who rule U. S. polo, last week gathered in a smoke-filled room in Manhattan for a solemn annual task. Gravely they passed about typewritten sheets of paper, studied them, made penciled notations. Then the names of ranking U. S. polo players were called off, their past and present handicaps noted, their recommended handicaps voted upon.

Handicapping U. S. polo players started in 1888, twelve years after Publisher James Gordon Bennett brought polo from England as a pastime for his wealthy...

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