Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-31
POLO SEASON WILL
OPEN IN DECEMBER
Coast Climate Ideal for the Sport,
and Number of Follow
ers Increases

! SAN FRANCISCO. oct. 30.-Since
the game Of polo was introduced on the
/ Pacific coast there never has been a
brighter outlook for a brilliant season
than this fall. Players are already ar
irving from tire east and are Assem- bling
on the grounds Of the Coronado Coun-
try club, where the annual champion
ships will be held in March. This club
has considerably increased the popular
| ity of the game by offering magnifio ent
trophies as well as building an estab-
| lishment which is the most complete
in this country and possibly in the
world. Players from England who
have played in most places where the
game is popular declare that nowhere
is there a better field than the tourna-
ment field of this club while the stab
ling accommodations are unsurpassed
there being 200 box stalls on the
grounds
The polo season in Southern Califor-
mia will start December / and will last
until the middle Of April. Maj. Colin
George Ross, the captain of the Coron-
ado team, has returned from trip to
his ranch in Alberta and brings the
good news that a Canadian team will
arrive in Coronado the end of Novem-
Der and will play there all winter
This team is the Calgary team, and is
made up of the following players: A.
Hone, Condo Londale, j. Notion and II.
Robertson.
Cheaver Cowdin of Meadowbrook and
Rockaway, New York, is now at Cor
onado and will spend the winter there.
Mr. Cowdin is awaiting the arrival of
Messrs. Malcolm Stevenson and H. S.
and J. G. Phipps, who will play with
him on a team representing RockaWay,
and who will divide their time between
Coronado and San Mateo. Another
early arrival at Coronado is Capt. J.
Campbell Besley, who was captain of
the Hermosillo (MeXican) team last
year at Coronado. Capt Besley Is
shipping his ponies to Coronado, where
he intends to spend the winter.
MEXICO PLAYERS COMING
From the City of Mexico individual
players are coming to Coronado to
make up a team and to enter the con-
test for the All American polo trophy.
the beautiful trophy valued at $4,000
which is presented by members of the
Coronado Country club and which is
contested for yearly at this club, pro-
Yided there are two or more entries
foreign to California in the tournament.
This is of course a certainty, as the
teams from New York, Canada and
Mexico are already entered. The cup
was won last year by an English team
made up of f. A. Gill, Maj. Romer Lee,
Mai. G. w. Hobson and Lieut.. F. b.
Hurndall. They took the cup to Eng
land with them and put it on exhibition
at Ranelagh, the finest polo club in
the old country and where thousands OF
persons interested in the sport saw IT.
They will either have to come back to
defend their title or forfeit their right
to it. The cup will be returned to this
country in the near future and will be
on exhibition in this city.
The dates already settled for tourna-
ments are: Coronado, January l, 1911;
Riverside, February Is to %, 1911; Cor
onado championship, March % to
April 5, 1911, and Pasadena, April to
~, 1911.
The first tournament at Coronado will
be a preliminary one to establish the
rating of the players. The tournament
at Riverside will be for the Frank
Mackey cup, which was won last year
by the Coronado team. The second
tournament at Coronado will be the
contest for the All America polo trophy.
the Spreckels cup championship Of Cal
ifornia and many other cups. The
Pasadena tournament will be for the
Hogan cup and cups donated by other
prominent Pasadenans