San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-31
NORTH TEXAS
CIVILIANS
PUT OUT
LOCALS
Wichita Falls Finds Good
Use of Handicap;
Austin Wins.

Their desperate five goal rally in
the last two chukkers falling short,
the Second Division YellOwjackets
met defeat at the mallets of the
crack Wichita Falls Civilian four.
10 to q, in the first of two import
ant games in the Southwestern mid
winter polo carnival ut Kelly Field
Saturday afternoon. SO passed out
of the picture one of the favored
teams in the Southwestern circuit
cups event.
In the second game Of the after
noon, the Austin Polo Club quartet
overcame a seven-goal handicap to
win from the Second Field Artillery
Brigade, II to .. The superior
mounts and horscmanship Of the
Austin team made it hopeless for the
Artillery poloists.
Saturdays games were in the
Southwestern Cups series. Only six
teams are left in this tournament.
the two Corps Area Headquarters
teams. Fort Meade. S. D., Fort
Clark. the Austin Polo Club and
Wichita Falls.
-FOUR SUNDAY GAMES.
Two games will be played in the
series Sunday, both at Kelly Field.
At = o'clock the Headquarters No.
team will meet Fort Meade, and
at 4 O'Clock the Headquarters No.
= quartet will clash with Fort Clark.
The semi-finals in the cups series will
be played Tuesday, with the finals
either Friday or Saturday.
Treat Field, Fort Sam Houston
will be the scene of two other games
Sunday afternoon, the first of the
| Southwestern Circuit eliminations to
select the team to represent this cir
cult in the national tournament. Al
= o'clock Fort Bliss will play the
Houston Riding and Polo Club four.
| At o'clock the Second Division
Yellowjackets will tackle the Fort
| Mcintosh quartet.
Treat Field and Kelly Field arc
in condition for play, but Bracken-
| ridge Park and HarDord Field are
vet too soft for safe footing. Kelly
Field, in particular. is in fine shape,
the two contests there Saturday af-
ternoon affording some of the most
spectacular polo yet seen in the tour
ney. A heavy roller behind an army
|
few soft spots.
HANDICAP TOO HIGH.
Although they rallied desperately
in the last two chukkers and came
near pulling the game out of the fire,
the Division lowjackets fell vie
tins of a too liberal handicaping
system. Any team which spots the
hard riding Wichita Falls outfit six
goals to start is in for a hard after
noon.
Wichita Falls started out as if it
didn't need a handicap Of any kind.
Minnick quickly made two goals and
Featherstone one, and when the halt
way mark was reached the civilians
were leading the llowjackcts, .
to 1.
During the last four chukkers. how
ever, the contest belonged exclusively
to the Yellowjackcts. They made TIVE
goals i'm the fifth chukker. one in th'
sixth and two more in the seventh
Then, with their opponents leading BY
four goals, the Division poloists mad
their supreme effort in the last chuk
ker. putting three through the up
, rights in quick succession. The finn
/ bell found them -hammcrins for th'
! fourth and tie.
t CULLINS SCORES FOUR
e Lieutenant Cullins led the losin
/. YellowjacketS' offensive with fou
goals. Major King accounted fc
three. two coming in the rousing las
: chukker. Minnick, with a pair q
goals, led the Wichita scorers.
The line-ups:
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