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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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only man who plays polo with a stocksaddle. This is made necessary by aweak leg, the doctor having broken histhigh-bone once in a game. Dr. Boe-sekes team mates usually are his broth-ers, E. A. and Dr. B. C. Boeseke, andhis son, E. J. Boeseke, Jr. These menplay a dashing style of polo which findslittle acceptance with the expert judges,who say their success is chiefly due tothe speed of one pony, the wonderfulBlue Knot, believed to be the fastestanimal in the game. This pony is theproperty of Dr. E. J. Boeseke and it isno uncommon thing for him to play itin five of the eight periods of a hardgame. In addition to having speed, thepony is apparently incapable of feelingweariness. Dr. Boeseke has refused fab-ulous sums for Blue Knot. One of the most notable events ofCalifornia polo was when, in 1912, atPasadena the Santa Barbara team, play-ing what was contemptuously spoken ofas cow-puncher polo, ran off their feetthe scientific English team composed ofLord Tweedmouth, Lord Herbert, Vis-
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LORD TWEEDMOUTH WHOSE TEAM WAS BEATEN BYYEARS AGO COWBOY POLO TWO count Gower, and Walter Dupee, de-feating the foreigners by a big score. Thegame was played before a gallery of tenthousand people who were agin theEnglish from the time the ball wasthrown in. To this day the Boesekesare remembered by men in Pasadena whocannot recall the names of the players onthe local teams. It is largely because of the wonderfulstring of ponies which participated inthe California games in the season of1912-1913 and last summer were sent East to help the Meadowbrook teamkeep the international cup in America,that the eyes of the polo world are turnedto the West. Two Hawaiian ponieswere among those from the West whichcreated a stir at Meadowbrook. Theywere Dr. Will P. Baldwins Carry-the-News and Walter F. DillinghamsHelen C. The latter was used byLarry Waterbury, while Carry-the-News was mounted by Captain Whit-ney. This chestnut horse, one of themost valuable polo animals in the world, (587)

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