The San Francisco call., 1909-02-07
POLO CHAMPIONSHIP
HANGS I'm THE
BALANCE
Great International Contest Is
Scheduled to Start at
Coronado Next Month

The annual polo tournament, which
will open on the field at Coronado on
March 8, is attracting international at
tention because of the entries of crack
players of this country and England.
The members of the Burlingame club,
which will represent San Francisco in
the big event, have suffered much from
lack of practice of late, but they are
all game and hope to be returned win
ners.
The general opinion is that the local
men. will go up against the strongest
teams they have ever had to play in
the coast championship Besides Frank
Mackey and his star players from Eng
land, there are fours from Bryn Mawr,
Philadelphia, and the Riverside team.
which is said to be greatly improved
The Riverside team will be NJ Red
mayne, No. /; H. B. Pattee, No. 2; T.
Weiss, No. 3, and Major C. G. Ross,
back. The Bryn Mawr team will be
II. Drury, No. 8, and Charles Wheeler,
back.
The Bryn Mawr team is expected to
put up the hardest game against the
which is composed of Richard NJ. To-
bin, Walter s. Hobart, John Lawson
and Thomas A. Driscoll. will play its
first game in the south on March 9.
Guest and j. L. Tobin will be members.
will accompany their champions
through the southern tournament.
It Is expected that seven teams will
compete in the tournament at Coron-
ado. One each from Los Angeles, Santa
Barbara, Coronado, Burlingame, Bryn
Mawr, Mackeys English team and two
from Riverside.
Mackey and his team. of English
players, which recently arrived in
Riverside, have made quite an impress
<i y. tlxA f-,
preparatory work. Their first game
will be. against the men of San Mateo
and has been scheduled for, the Pasa-
dena horse show. which takes place on
March 9. Already some keen specula-
tion has developed as to the outcome
of the match, number of southern
! men already wagering enough on both
sides to excite lively interest. Mack
ey's men will be known as the Ran
dolph team, with red and white as the
colors.
At the present time but three mem
bers of the team are at Riverside the
fourth member. being expected later.
Major A. M. Rotheram, who Is No. / of
the Ranelagh team, has played this po-
sition on the Irish International team
for five years. engaging in some very
close matches with the English in in
ternatiOnal contests. He also plays No.
on the Ranafegh team in England
of the Ranalegh polo club in London
and the Deauville polo club of France.
| Mackey, who will play No. 2, or back.
| is well known in California. He played
No. on the American team against
England at Hurlingham, England. in
1900. He has organized many good
teams in England, among them being
the Handley Cross and the Beauchamp
Hall teams
| Invitations have been sent to all the
polo clubs in California for the River
side 1903 polo tournament, which Is to
be played on the grounds of the club in
competition for the Mackey cup the
week beginning February 22 This tro-
ply was offered by Mackey in 1906 on
icondition that it be played for each year
| in February on the grounds of the
Riverside polo club and that it should
become the permanent possession of the
club which first won three of the an
nual tournaments. The Mackey team
has twice held the cup and the River
side team has twice had that honor.
which adds more interest to the coming
contest. as the cup will become the
property of the winning club this year.
Those on the reception committee are
| the well known Canadian poloist, Major
| C. G. Ross; H. G.. Pattee. president of
the Riverside polo club. and Frank A.
Miller of the Glenwood Mission inn. the
headquarters for the poloists. Accord
ling to present plans the RanaIegh team
will play in Pasadena on March g. from
which place 1t will go to Coronado to
play for the Spreckels cup and the in
ternational cup, and also in the Bur-
lingame tournament.