[lit-ideas] Checklist of American and Argentine Polo Players
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:02:13 EST
"Bolano has a huge long list of Chilean poets in his Distant Star which I
finished this morning - longer than your list of philosophers - everyone in
Chile must be a poet. Not everyone wants to publish so he counts
unpublished poets as well."
My other hobby is polo, and have recently acquired this Encyclopaedia of
Polo edited by this amateur polist (love that phrase), E. Laffaye, who lives in
Greenwich, Connecticut. It all started as an amateur list "of friends" but has
expanded and is now translated from Argentinian to English. It makes for
fascinating read, and polo players are _always_ more interesting than Chilean
poets.
I included the American ones, for the sake of the Americans on this list,
but of course my own list just lists the Argentine ones.
For each polist he may not give the unpublished or published poems, but his
handicap, usually a photo, all the championships he participated, name of his
favourite horse, name of his team, with club affiliation, and name of his
ranch.
And of course it's alphabetical. Since many FAMILIES belong, there's like 8
entries for
NOVILLO-ASTRADA
HEGUY
HERRIOT
--- many were Anglo-Argentines and there are delightful anecdotes when for
the first Polo Olympics this presented a dilemma as to whether play as an
Englishman or an Argentina.
TRAIL, the most important polo player of that breed, accepted to play FOR
ENGLAND in the first Olympics ON CONDITION that the team will not be made to
play against ARGENTINA.
That's a case where the ethics of an amateur sportman surpasses that of the
marine or of a Socrates (drinking his hemlock).
Cheers,
JL
La Pampa, Argentina.
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