Betty Lou Young and Randy Young Santa Monica Canyon: A Walk Through History Casa Vieja Press: Pacific Palisades, CA, 1997, 182 pp., 1889
"A polo club was organized in Santa Monica in 1877, but the members were so humiliated at losing a match the next year to Manual Marquez and his team of four Californio canyonites that it was disbanded. In 1889 the Southern California Polo Club was formed with play held on grounds donated by Senator Jones and Arcadia Bandini de Baker. Interest in horse-related sports persisted, and nearly forty years later polo came into its own on several playing fields in Rustic and Santa Monica canyons.
" . . . the establishment of Canyon School . . . The process began in 1889, when the school board instructed two of the trustees, E.J. Vawter and R.P. Elliott, to investigate the need . . ."