Auto polo (LOC)
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Pole supporting car, bad retouching job
looks like a tire track to me...
Future "Reality" TV stars...
Given the motion blur here... and not elsewhere... It's a "staged" shot.... How many glass plates were shot at 1/250th LOL
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Auto polo
[between 1910 and 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes: Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA,
hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at
hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.11115
Call Number: LC-B2- 2473-11
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It looks like an extreme sport to me.
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... any visitors in the stadium?
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This is messed up. These guys need to find a
new sport.
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fun! I hope the players here didn't get hurt.
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Man, that looks like fun!
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Lol, They knew how to have a good time,
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That's insane. On the list of 100 things to
do in case your brain falls out of your head.
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What in the...? Now that's an extreme sport!!
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Bumper Cars, the early years
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The forefathers of Jackass - huzzaw!
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I'm starting a club. Anyone?
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Wow, the photographer really captured those
guys being thrown about.
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The earliest mention I can find of Auto Polo
is in New York Times articles dating from
late 1912. One from December 3 tells of the first auto polo event held in New York , at Madison Square Garden the previous day.
I can't find references to auto polo having
been played anywhere in the United States
outside the New York area. The Times Archives
have several more articles on auto polo,
published through the middle of 1913, and
then there's no more mention of it. My guess
is that people just came to their senses and
went back to their ponies.
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scary~
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That's actually December 3, 1912, and it says
auto polo came from the South and West.
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Elizabeth Thomsen: Thanks for noting my typo.
It is indeed supposed to be 1912, not 1913.
But the article to which I linked does not
begin with the paragraph you quoted. The
article I linked begins "Auto polo made
its debut to the New York public at Madison
Square Garden yesterday afternoon and last
night, and everybody who saw the new game
went away with nerves playing a new
tune." The article makes no mention of
the game having been played earlier the South
and West. Here's a link for those who would like to read the whole
thing.) Thanks for digging it up. It wasn't
among my original search results.
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What kind of contact are you... you never
leave me a "Comment" all this
stuff is old....
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I bet the insurance rates killed the game.
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comforting to know the present age doesn't
have a monopoly on stupidity...
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