Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-11
THE POLO GAME.
A Lively Contest Between Los =
geles and santa Monica.

The polo match between picked teams
of Los Angeles and Santa Monica play
ers, which was held at the Agricultural
Park yesterday afternoon cannot Justly
be said to have proved a success. In
the first place there were not more than
$50 spectat ors on the ground, and, es is
usual with small crowds, the majority
was disposed to be hypercritical. The
second circumstance, which tended 10
dishearten the players, was that, owing
to lack of water, the ground itself lad
not been wet down, and was so soft aud
dusty as to make it extremely unpleas-
ant for both players and spectators, the
former in fact being obscured at times
from sight by the clouds of dust raised
by their ponies.
In spite of these awbacks, however.
the rival teams who were pretty evenly
matched all round, played a good game
from start to finish, the Santa Monicaa
winning the match with score of two
goals to one. The home team CONSISTED
of DIR. Edmonds, R. P. Carter, Wool
house, and J. B. Proctor, who donned
black jerseys as their distinguishing
color; while Captain Bolton, J.. Machell,
Young, and j. Parker sported orange
jerse for the opposite side. s. L.
Waring oficiated as referee, and Cap
tain Tomkinson as timekeeper. "Play"
was called at 2 80 O'Clock and Woodhouse
at once took the ball into the enemy's
quarters; he was we'll backed up, but
owing to the soft condition of the ground
the ball refused to roll any distance, and
after several attempts to force it between
the posts, Carter succeeded in obtaining
''try." On the ball being thrown into
play again. the oranges rallied, and
Young got away with it, but after an ex-
citing race Proctor checked it prettily by
a clever croes-cut. A series of scrim-
IMAGES in front of the black goal sue
ceeded each other until the call of time.
After an interval of fifteen minutes,
during which the players changed po-
MES, play was called for the second quar-
ter. The home team, owing to the
vagaries of the pony ridden by "Doc"
Edmonds, played one man short; and,
as result, the Santa Monicans scored
two goals in rapid succession. Young
made the fret and to Captain Bolton be-
longs the honor of rushing the second
In the third quarter the oranges again
attempted to rush things their own way,
but the home team stood their ground
and worked like Trojans. Finally Wood
house cleverly extricated the sphere from
a scrimmage, and by a series of clever
strokes took it right down to the enemy's
lines. A nip and tuck race ensued be-
tween the rival teams, and after des-
perate struggle Carter scored goal for
the "blacks" as time was called.
In the last quarter honors were evenly
divided, the ball being driven up and
down alternately without being taken
dangerously near either goal, and as the
bell rang for the close of the game, q
scrimmage was in progress in the center
of the field.
The programme concluded with a
quarter-mile race in which five ponies
were entered. 1t proved to be fore
gone conclusion for Mr.. Warnings
thorou ghbred mare Dollie, which won
easily, a length and half from Mr..
Proctor's Rex. Messrs. Parker, Young
and Edmonds also rode their ponies,
coming in under the wire several lengths
behind the two first-named ponies.