The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-30
POLO At BURLINGAME.
TEAMS. FROM WALLA WALLA
AND RIVERSIDE WILL PLAY
NEXT WEEK.
THE PUBLIC SURPRISED WITH AN
INVITATION FROM THE Ex-
elusive SET.

Burlingame, which, to the ordinary NOR
tai, means the exclusive of the exclusive,
has decided to crawl from its shell of ex-
clusiveness and invite the whole public to
the polo tournament that is billed for April
and 6.
The event that has caused the Burlin-
game Country Club to put aside for the
once its hauteur and disregard presidents
is nothing less than polo match between
officers stationed at Walla Walla, English
gentlemen residing at Riverside and the
clubs own aspirants for honors in Eng
lands great game.
1t viii be the first polo tournament of
any note ever given on the Pacific Coast
and, as it is to be ain affair strictly Burlin-
game, everything Will, of course, be Just
right. The balls to be used are imported
direct from India and the polo sticks also
The team that will line up before the Walla
Walla cavalry officers next Thursday is
made up of the following well-known gen.
tlemen: Z. NJ. Tobin (captain), j. S. Tobin
II. r. Simpkins and John Lawson. The
Burlingame young polo masters are in ex-
cellent trim, the result of many months
practice, and naturally expect to win,
though the Riverside team is likely to
prove stumbling block to their ambi-
ton
The Walla Walla team, composed en-
tirely of cavalry officers, arrived yesterday
and are stopping at the Palace. Lieuten-
ants II. S. Hawkins, Cecil Stewart, G. Vor-
hees, E. B. Cassett and Paul Compton, son
of Captain Compton, make up the team,
and a finer or more athletic-appearing
body of men would be hard to find. They
look fully able to play horseback Skinny, :"
or any other game requiring skill and
muscle, with honor to themselves.
1--WE nave only been playing polo about
year, said Lieutenant Hawkins, captain
of the team, yesterday, land do not claim
to be particularly expert at the game. We
have never played a match game before,
not counting, of course, the games with
our own BOYS, and it is quite likely that
Burlingame and Riverside will be able to
teach. US a thing or two about polo that we
now think we know. The team will do
their very best to win, but II defeated will
have no excuses to make.
1.-THE Fort Walla Walla polo team en-
joys the distinction of being the first
purely army team in America, and we are
rather proud of it. We will use our own
cayuse ponies for the match, fifteen arriv-
ing by steamer next Tuesday. Whether we
win or not, you can put US down as saying
that San Francisco is a great city,"
Second Lieutenant Cassett is son of
the Philadelphia millionaire, and is said
to be an expert at the game, having
played it East and in England
r: NJ. Tobin, who has made all arrange
ments for the tournament, entertained the
visiting polo team with delightful lunch
at the Palace Hotel grillroom, after which
the party visited the races.
The Riverside team, which Is feared by
both Burlingame and Walla Walla, has
been in existence seven or eight years and
are thoroughly up in the latest polo tactics.
This team made up of the following gentle
men will arrive next Thursday and with
them same famous polo ponies: &. L.
Waring, captain; G. E. Maud, r. Bettner
and r. NJ Allen. The names of the ponies
noted in the few polo matches that have
occurred on the coast are: Santa Clara,
Wonder, Dawn, Polly, Cigarette, Tomtit,
Baby and bay gelding with the sugges-
tive name of Bulldog.
The Burlingame and Walla Walla teams
will play Thursday, the 4th, and the win
ner will play Riverside Saturday, 9th inst.