The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-15
POLO-PLAYERS
FROM TEE NORTH.
ARMY OFFICERS FROM WALLA
WALLA WILL PLAY AGAINST
BURLINGAME.
THE PUBLIC MAY VIEW IT.
TALBOT CLIFTON WILL Soon START
HIS DAILY CoACH-A TAN
DEM CLUB.

The public will soon have an opportunity
to get taste of polo, and at The same time
the polo-players at Burlingame will have
their first chance to test their proWess
against an outside team. The officers OF
the Fourth United States Cavalry, sta
toned at Walla Walla, have for some time
been trying to arrange to play with the
Burlingame people, and now about all the
preparations have been made for tourna-
ment to begin on the 30th of this month.
The Riverside Polo Club has been asked to
ioin in the tournment, but it is not certain
yet that it will do SO.
The Walla Walla people will bring down
team of five players, about dozen ponies
and a number of men to care for them.
This all will cost a good deal of money,
and, in order to help out, the Burlingame
Club will charge an admission fee to the
games. Special trains will be run from
this city landing the visitors at the grounds.
Tickets will be sold to the public covering
the fare both ways and admission to the
grounds.
The tournament will probably cover
week, with games on Saturday, the 30th
inst. and the following Wednesday and
Saturday. Until it is definitely known
whether the Riverside Club will send up a
team the schedule of games will not be set
tied upon.
The Walla Walla officers have been
PLAYING for some time and several of them
have had considerable experience in the
East. The younger officers in the army
have been playing polo of late years con-
siderably, as it adds much to their horse
manship, particularly in teaching them
command over their horses.
Lieutenant Cassat, a son of President
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most prominent member of the northern
team and is an experienced polo-player.
The Burlingame team Of four will be
made up from a few regular players. name
| iy: Harold Wheeler, II. r. Simpkins, R.
NJ. Tobin, J. s. Tobin, John Lawson. W. P:
A. Brewer, c. P. Tobin, ]. P. H. Howard
and H. H. Hinshaw. But G. P. Tobin and
Brewer will probably be absent, and there
remain very few to chose from. Judging
from the remarks of visitors, old polo
players from India and the Eastern States,
the Burlingame players would not rank
very high on their fields. This is due to
the fact that they have had no opportuni-
ties to play with crack players, just as men
will never learn to play good billiards I'M
less they have some practice with experts.
So the Burlingame people do not look
forward with great confidence to victory
over the men from the north and the
south, while they welcome the opportunity
Riverside are reported to play fine game.
The polo grounds at Burlingame are in
excellent condition at present-green,
springy and smooth They become dry
and dusty in summer, as the club has no
| arrangement for watering them. However,
a new ten-acre polo field is being laid out
| nearer the clubhouse, with pipes to supply
water to keep it green the year round. 1t
will be ready next year for permanent use.
Grounds are also being laid out for trap
shooting, and supply of special electric
traps has been brought from the East.
This was an inducement for a number of
trap-shooterS to join the club lately, and
that sport will in future be feature of the
club.
Talbot Clifton's new daily stage line from
the Palace Hotel to Burlingame will be
started as soon as the coach he had made
| in England arrives. He will probably run
once a week or so as far as Menlo. The
coach will leave the Palace Hotel in the
morning and return from Burlingame in
| the evening. The distance covered will be
| nineteen miles each way. He will have
| the use also of the club coach, and two or
| three other members will take turns with
| him at the whip. The charge for passage
will be about 81 so with something extra
| for the box seat. To keep up the properly
| appointed coaches, care for the twenty -five
| thoroughbred horses anc have everything
| ''quite fit" will take a lot of money and
Mr.. Clifton thinks he will be extremely
! lucky If he comes out even. But he will,
he says, have given the people of San Fran
cisco a taste of good old coaching.
| Several of the men at Burlingame are
starting a tandem club. Five or six of
them have traps and tandem horses, and
! it is proposed to have periodical tandem
meets once a week or so and drive on
down toward Menlo or some other place
where the roads are good, have a lunch
| together and then drive back home.