At the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, Schreiner was a member of the Missouri Athletic Club water polo team that won the bronze medal in the event, with the team from the New York Athletic Club taking the Gold and the team from the Chicago Athletic Club taking the silver. In addition to Schreiner, the Missouri Club water polo team consisted of
Gwynne Evans,
Augustus Goessling, John Myers,
Bill Orthwein,
Amedee Reyburn, and
Manfred Toeppen. The Missouri Athletic Club (MAC) team went scoreless 5-0 in their match against the New York Athletic Club, though only three teams competed, giving the MAC the bronze medal. The 1904 competition in water polo was part of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, and was held at the Life Saving Exhibition Lake on September 5-6. Only American teams competed in the water polo tournament. The 1904 U.S. Olympic water polo team, consisting of players from the New York Athletic Club that won the gold medal consisted of
David Bratton,
George Van Cleaf,
Leo Goodwin,
Louis Handley,
Joe Ruddy, and
James Steen. The lake used for the life saving exhibition and water polo tournament was part of the agricultural exhibit, and some of the cattle from the agricultural exhibit walked into the lake. Although swimming and water polo were held in a different part of the lake, within a year of the competition, four of the water polo competitors were the fatal victims of typhus. By 1906, the swimming instructor at the Missouri Athletic Club was Alex Meffert. In professional life after his swimming career, Schreiner worked as a grain merchant according to his entry in Olympedia, serving on the Chicago Board of Trade beginning in 1908. However, there are no other sources confirming that the water polo player and the Director of the Chicago Board of trade were the same individual. ==References==