Boeseke, Elmer Julius, Jr., 1895-1963
Biography
Elmer Boeseke played most of his polo in Santa Barbara. The Boeseke family helped start polo in the area in the 1890s. His father was a two-time mayor of Santa Barbara.
In 1924 he won the silver medal with the American team in the Olympic polo tournament. He was a member of the US winning team against Argentina in the 1932 Cup of the Americas and the 1932 Argentine Open.
He represented the West Coast against the East Coast in 1933 and 1934, playing in the winning team in the first of those years. He was a member of the Greentree team that won the Monty Waterbury Memorial Cup in 1929, and in 1933 was on the Aurora team which won both the National Open Championship and the Monty Waterbury Memorial Cup.
In 1934 Boeseke became only the 11th player in U.S. polo history to be given a 10-goal handicap rating. Boeseke was elected to the Polo Hall of Fame in 1999.
from www.olympedia.org/athletes/18228
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Fleischmann's polo field, 1981-02-15
Six scrapbooks contain all thirty years of the weekly local history columns written by Mrs. Rouse for the Santa Barbara News-Press newspaper. Numbering approximately 1,500, the articles are cataloged by keywords in the Gledhill Library Subject Index. See Arrangement note for date range of articles within each scrapbook.