The San Francisco call., 1909-03-23
BURLINGAME WINS
A GREAT POLO
GAME
California Champions Defeat
RaneIagEl i'm Closing Contest
of Tournament
By Arthur InkerSfey
.eial Diseoteh 10 The Call

Especial Dispatch TO The CALI
CORONADO, March 22.-The keenest
hardest and best game of polo ever
played on the field of the Coronado
country club began shortly before 3
o'clock this afternoon and ended in the
defeat Of the Ranelagh team by Bur-
lingame, the score being five goals to
four in favor of the California cham
pions of 1906. 1907 and 1908.
The Ranelagh team was weakened
by the absence of Frank ]. Mackey
No. >, his wrist being so swollen that
he was unable to play. Mackey desired
to have Hugh Orury. an Englishman
who played No. for Bryn Mawr, put
in his place, but the Burlingame men,
believing Drury's skill would diminish
their chance of victory strenuously OBJ
jected on the technical ground that
Drury had already played in the tour
nament as member of the Philadel-
phia team. Tom Weiss, formerly OF Los
Angeles but now of Riverside, was put
in as No. 2, position to which he was
wholly unused.
In the first three periods Ranelagh
was unable to score, Ross being ridden
] off by Tobin, Burlingame No. /. con-
stantiy. During those three periods
goals. At Colonel Ross suggestion
Weiss was put back, he himself taking
No. .. Improvement was apparent at
once Just before the end of the fifth
period Ranelagh had tied Burlingame's
score. In the sixth period Ranelagh
made the score four to three, but Bur-
4 lingame added two more goals and the
match ended five to four in favor of
Burlingame.
RaneIagh had hard luck in failing
| to score goals after working the ball
+ ball struck a goal post and failed to
go between. In other instances the
( ball went just to the right or left of
1 the post. The change in the arrange
ment of the teams was made too late.
I One goal was obtained by Burlingame
! after an umpire's whistle blew for a
cross, and this was protested by
Mackey. but this protest was disal-
4 lowed on the ground that the ball was
struck before the whistle blew and
went between the posts without being
The field umpires were Captain F. E.
Guest and Frank Hudson, DR. Z. J..
Edmonds being referee and time
In the first period (1o:0 Ranelagh
received q free hit for cross of Gill by
/ Hobart. but no score resulted. Dris-
J coll made a good run, but failed to
score. Ross was kept out of the game
+ by Tobin Of Burlingame, and Driscoll
/ scored q goal.
! In the second period Ross, Gill and
/ Rotheram played hard and Rotheram
+ had two or three good chances, but
+ failed to convert any of them into a
goal In the third period Hobart hit
T the ball. Umpire Guest blew the whis-
+ tie for a cross and the ball went be-
I tween the posts. Before the end of
4 the period Lawson scored from fine
oblique shot. Burlingame 3, Rane
In the fourth period Tom Weiss went
+ back and Colonel Ross moved up to
/ No. >. Ross scored almost at once, and
I Gill soon afterward. the period ending
Burlingame 3. Ranelagh 2. In the fifth
period Rotheram played hard and made
! nine strokes. but could not get goal
In one case the ball struck the right
post and stopped in front of the goal.
but no score resulted. Hobart crossed
a Ranelagh player. and free hit was
given to the English team. In the
sixth period Rotheram scored a fine
Hobart and Lawson each scored. the
match ending: Burlingame 8, Rane-
! lagh 4.
The teams lined up as follows:
Burlingame-R. NJ. Tobin, No. /; T.
I A. Driscoll, No. 2; John Lawson, No. 8,
and w. S. Hobart, back.
Ranela gh-Major A. Rotheram, No.
!: Tom Weiss ard Colonel d. ]. Ross,
No. >; +. A. Gill. No. 3: Colonel D. J..
4 Ross and Tom Weiss. back
By winning this afternoons match
/ the Burlingame team captures the
championship of California for 1909,
gets one win on John D. Spreckels' tro-
ply and one on the all-America trophy
/ Each member of the team wins a sill
Yer goblet ornamented with the en-
| blem of the Coronado country club in
colored enamel