Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-20
DONKEYS IN POLO CAME
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Band On Mules, came in and Gained the
spectators by playing selections from Got
terdammsrung and Baby Doll on soboes.
They were encouraged by the announcer,
who was supposed to be DR.. Sheldon OF
Kansas City, to give an encore and they
had the nerve TO give It. The audience re-
ceived il in silence and they passed on.
Dimick's band made music while Fran
cisco and his Mexicans we're not footing
around trying to make the fair name of
Music a byword and a SANDER.
sam Caldwell and Billy Wood had a hur-
ried consultation and decided that the
crowd had nerved itself sufficiently to see
another polo match. This one r.ss be-
tween the Centaurs and the French Zou-
ayes, They all came trotting onto the
field astride Of cute little hobby horses.
These hobby horses were a brilliant idea
for whenever a player lost his polo stick
he could break off his horses lath tail
and use that. The Frenchmen made two
goals and killed seventeen hobby horses.
Scudder Of Doniphan stepped on his horses
tail and was promptly fallen over by
three players in the mad rush. Then
somebody took his horse under lis arm
and ran away with the ball and that called
the game off,
Next Senior Benjos Cotton, a stately hero
with one sleeve pinned patheticslly across
his breast. marched in followed by a cage
full of raging beasts. They all obeyed
beautifully until the trainer turned his
back and told them to go through a march
without commands. 1t took several trusty
plumbers TO get Cotton out of the dust
when those animals got through with their
march. He was the old stampin' ground.
When they were getting back into the
wagon the poor Salamander, accused of
being Herb Kohn, lost his head, literally,
and crawled in under the big black bear
SO that his family on the side lines would
not witness his disgrace.
Hayes Mounts From Rear.
Another polo match followed in which
Gravy Hayes was dressed up in a uniform
that made it necessary for him to set on
his mule from behind so that the beast
would not get frightened and run away.
Indian Sinks (whatever they may happen
to be- played German Jaegers.
They finally got the ball through a goal
by both teams trying for the same one.
and Ced Potter distinguished himself both
in the number of times he fell off his
horse and by bis success in hampering
the ball. Following this match an English
cavalry drill, imported at the special re-
quest OF con young, was sent out upon
the field. John Barton was commander and
flouTished a huge wooden sword. He had
his sword when the drill was over because
he rode a horse. The privates of his com
pany finished with their fingers full Of
s%plinters and no swords. They we're riding
mules.
Lead US in a Wild charge" urged Sher-
man, who rode a small and very innocent
burro and the captain charged. One man
had got safely under way by the time they
had to be shooed off the field to make
way for the next polo match,
Real ponies, of different and Indifferent
speed possibilities we're the feature of the
next match between the Sioux Indians and
the laps. Billy Warfield and Cub Potter
rode around as if they might have seen a
saddle before. Poor Drunmond Jones
tried three horses and several mules and
got & mount that could balance him on its
back just in time for the last scrimmage.
Then came the great endurance race
scheduled to be from Omaha TO Grand
Island. Grand Island is probably a sleepy
town. There seemed to be no other expla-
nation for the fact that the contestants
rode across the field, took six knots out a