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THE RAPPAHANNOCK Polo Club’s season opener Friday night (May 31) in the beautiful polo arena at C. W. Fannon Jr.’s Laurel Hill Farm near Laurel Mills was a hummer for four periods of allout bump-hit-run play.
Although the long predicted rains washed out the last two of the scheduled six-period round robin— among Middleburg, Deep Run and Rappahannock—the rains didn’t wash out four periods of top speed excitement, efficiently controlled by one of the few real polo umpires in the Eastern part of the U.S.A. It was well he was there, since each of the nine players scheduled to play has a U. S. Polo Association handicap rating of one, two, or three goals, guaranteeing each is no slouch when it comes to lighting his pony’s afterburners.
When announcer Ed Johnston invited the umpire to begin the festivities, John Gulick (a rated play
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