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Identifier: outing63newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
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uests from four to eight outside teamswhich pass the winter in the State, goingfrom tournament to tournament. This winter there are participating in theCalifornia games teams from OnwcntsiaClub, captained by Frederick McLaugh-lin; from the Meadowbrook Club, cap-tained by Thomas LeBoutillier, 2nd;Lord Tweedmouths English team, madeup largely of officers of the Royal HorseGuards; the Cooperstown, New York,team; a Canadian team from Calgary,and a team from Boise, Idaho. With the exception of a month or twoin summer polo is played throughout theyear in California, but it is from NewYears until the latter part of April thatthere are held the big tournaments forwhich men and ponies cross continentsand even oceans. Four months of datesare allotted to the State by the AmericanPolo Association every year, beginningJanuary 1. Generally, however, thetournaments do not commence until ear-ly in February when the Pasadena Clubentertains. The Coronado tournamentis held early in March and the San Ma-
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MAJOR ROSS, CAPTAIN OF THE CORONADO POLO TEAM AND ONE OF THE PIONEERSOF THE SPORT ON THE PACIFIC COAST 5S6 OUTING teo meet in April. Santa Barbara holdsits tournament between the Coronadoand San Mateo dates. A summer meetis also held at Santa Barbara and islargely attended by coast players. Polo was introduced into Californiaabout twenty-five years ago, first in thevicinity of San Francisco and later inthe South, near Los Angeles. The clubswhich first played in the State, the Bur-lingame, the Santa Monica, and the Riv-erside, have disappeared in the steadyshift of the years and their members havescattered to newer and more vigorousorganizations. The Center of the Game Coronado Beach, across the bay fromSan Diego, is now the center of Westernpolo, and it is there, playing withinsound of the crash of the Pacifics break-ers, that most of the visiting teams maketheir headquarters when not attendingthe tournaments farther north. At Cor-onado three handsome tropies are hungup every year. Th

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