{"id":735832,"date":"2026-06-14T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T08:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/735832\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T08:33:09","slug":"when-auto-polo-came-to-mississauga-modern-mississauga-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/735832\/","title":{"rendered":"When Auto Polo came to Mississauga \u2014 Modern Mississauga Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Sometimes the story ideas for this article seemingly come out of the ether \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">I was watching a tv program last night that explored the early 1920s phenomenon of \u201cAuto Polo\u201d. I had a laugh recalling the historic pictures we have of auto polo from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modernmississauga.com\/main\/2022\/8\/10\/the-history-of-the-oldest-surviving-structure-in-cooksville\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cooksville<\/a> Agricultural Fair in the 1920s. Then today, responding to an inquiry, I inadvertently opened a book to a chapter of the Cooksville Fair where it highlighted a story about the \u201cAuto Polo Contest\u201d in 1922. Thank of a combination of polo, car racing, and a demolition derby!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What finally convinced me we should write about it was another inquiry asking about early sporting endeavours in historic Mississauga \u2013 and I just had to include a note about auto polo! So here we go!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Modern.motoring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Automobile<\/a> Polo, or Auto Polo, first took shape in the United States around 1911-12 as a creative way to boost sales of the 1911 Model T Ford. The earliest recorded match happened in Wichita, Kansas, on July 20, 1912, though a few games had already been played as early as 1908 in New York City\u2019s regimental armory. By late 1912, official rules were established, and a major tournament was held in Washington, D.C. The sport quickly gained traction, with clubs forming especially in New York City and Chicago by the early 1920s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes the story ideas for this article seemingly come out of the ether \u2026 I was watching a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-735832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}