Perhaps the man in question does like to see you widen your eyes as you listen in rapt wonder whilst he expands like a rigg in high wind explaining the tricks and intricacies of his favorite sport. However, some direct contact with his pet interest, if ever so slight, gives a foothold to your end of the conversation and encourages him to talk more freely

Williams, Berniece

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Perhaps the man in question does like to see you widen your eyes as you listen in rapt wonder whilst he expands like a rigg in high wind explaining the tricks and intricacies of his favorite sport. However, some direct contact with his pet interest, if ever so slight, gives a foothold to your end of the conversation and encourages him to talk more freely.</p

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Hold Your Horses P ERHAPS the man in question does like to see you widen your eyes as you listen in rapt wonder whilst he expands like a rigg in high wind explaining the tricks and intricacies of his favorite sport. However, some di-rect contact with his pet interest, if ever so slight, gives a foothold to your end of the conversation and encour-ages him to talk more freely. Every city has its athletic organiza-tions bound together by the love of talking shop. If an average woman were to listen in on one of these ses-sions, the gibberish would no doubt be a matter of so much Greek. It would be a revelation to hear the men who we thought spoke our language talking in such terms as: "hairpinned on for the jump," or "tossed a split on the first throw." If you desire a conversational know-ledge of riding, you may gain valuable information from campus sportsmen who modestly claim only an amateur's authority, but whose experience is read-ily recognized. You may learn about riding from Paul "Red" Strickland, who has ridden since the age of five. "You have to fall off a horse to learn to loose your equilib-rium gracefully," Red advised from his wealth of personal experience, "but every rider gets it in the neck some-time." A horse's "points" are the most im-portant considerations upon which he is judged: head, nose, ears, etc. The withers is the built up section across the shoulders, which, if well developed marks a good animal. Sometimes an inferior horse has such beauty defects as "fiddle faced," hocked, ring-boned or sway-backed. A horse has various gaits. First is the walk which is self explanatory. The trot is the form in which the legs move in diagonal pairs. In a fast trot all four feet are off the ground twice during each stride. Posting to the trot is the technique of adjusting the rider's rhythm to the horse's. A gallop is the form when all four feet are off the ground at the same time once in each bound. Cantering resem-bles galloping with more moderation. In a pace the horse's legs move in lateral pairs; it is supported first on the right legs, then on the left. In a single-foot each foot strikes singly, and there are alternately one and two feet on the ground. Because of its delight-ful rhythm, it is called a fox-trot. "It's important to understand the horse's point of view," Red stated. "They only see shadows; white objects startle The Iowa Homemaker by Berniece Williams them, and unusual sounds and move-ments will make a horse shy. I've known horses with the ability to pick up all fours and plant them down five feet to the side. Then you want to have a good 'hairpinned' grip with your knees." To those who have seen but few, if any, polo games, the word "polo" sug-gests a delightful afternoon with sun-shine flooding a gay crowd in the grandstands and a brilliantly green turf under a blue sky with beautiful, high-strung horses ridden by gallant equestrians in white helmets and riding togs. But the game itself grows fascinating according to Tom Stanton. It is played in 6 chuckers (8 in international games) each about 7% minutes long. The four men on each team start off from a lineup cross-wise on the center of the field, facing each other and . their own goal. The ball is tossed in by the ref-eree and they are off! The players are numbered: number one man, two, three and four. Number two is the most active player, and is supposed to be in every play. · One guards number four, and two and three guard each other. Teamwork is very "One point that is often misunder-stood is that no one man makes · the goals: the ball is always being passed," Stanton explained. With well-trained horses, the horse is about 90 percent of the game. The horses seem to put human understand-ing behind their zest in following the ball. And in riding a man off, which is just pushing an opponent out of the way, the horse does most of the push-ing, and ·a rider may pus;h with his shoulders. The "off-side" of the horse is the right side, and the "near-side" is the left side. There are four possible strokes: off-side forward, off-side backward, near-side forward and near-side backward. In addition there are under the neck shots, tail a;,_d belly shots. "Crooking" a mallet is hooking the opponent's mal-let. This is an effective guarding tech-nique. Riding is a fa-vored sport of many. 

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