The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-01

rows and shoots Baron Charles Russell
of Killowen, Lord Chief Justice of Eng
land likes horse racing. Governor Theo-
dore Roosevelt has many recreations,
among them ranching on the plains big
game hunting in the Rocky mountains,
zoology, mammalogy, field natural his
tory, rough riding politics, speech-mak-
ing and throwing boquets at himself
Sir Henry Irving passes his leisure in
reading and writing. Ellen Terry's Tecrs-
atoms are reading driving and yachting.
Arthur Balfour. First Lord of the Treas
ury, is one of the leading golfers in Eng
land. and also is an expert cyclist Mary
Anderson de NaVarrOs recreations are
music, riding, cards, reading aloud and
singing. Rudyard Kipling fishes and
cycles. Jerome Klapka Jerome rid S,
drives. cycles and boats. Sir Walter
Besants sole amusement is looking on.
Annie Besant was an expert archer and
croquet player when girl. Alfred
Harmsworth, the sensational publisher, is
fond of automobiling, cycling, angling
and travelling. Arthur Wing Pinero, dra-
matist. amuses himself at golf, cycling
and cricket.
Bishop Henry Goldman Potter is in the
saddle when not in the pulpit Park Com
missioner George Casper Clausen rides a
great deal and drives not little He ex-
poets soon to become an expert AUTOMOBILE
list Joseph Jefferson employees his Idle
hours in fishing and painting. Ada Rehan
prefers in the way of amusement cycling,
travelling and reading Balzac and Thack-
cray. The recreations of President Alex
ander Johnson Cassatt of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad are hunting and coaching.
Ever since his arrest at Monmouth Park
on. an absurd charge under a New jersey
blue law he has had no hand in racing.
John d. and William Rockefeller are cy-
chsts and automobiles. Henry Osborne
Havemeyer breeds fine cattle, rides horse
back makes golf popular and fights taxes
Senator Chauncey Mitchell Depew spends
his few leisure moments in devising means
10 enjoy every hour of his life. He is the
happiest man in the world.
Clement Scott the British author and
dramatic writer. has tried nearly every
game and sport under the sun except eye
ling He is an expert a cricket. row.
ing, fives. rackets, lawn tennis and golf.
He played the first game of lawn tennis
ever seen in England. in the company OF
Major Walter Wingfield, the inventor; AL
fred Thompson and Alfred Lubbock. Fox
hall Keene is the best amateur, or gen
tlenan jockey in this country and Eu-
rope; the best rider after hounds, one of
the expert racket players, good at hand
ball golf automobiling or any other sport.
F. Marion Crawford is good at nearly all
sports and is one of the few amateur
yachtmen who hold professional masters
certificates from the Association Oh Amer
lean Shipmasters.
we have in New York some of the ia
nous hunters of the world. Mr.. Charles
Ranlett Flint has killed the biggest game
in both of the Western Hemispheres'
North and South America. Mr.. Edward
r. Ladew. the millionaire leather mer-
chant, former partner of old Fayerweather
has ridden the crocodile of the Nile. STRIP
ped the stripes from the tiger of he
;rugela. shot the lion of the hano, potted
the rhinoceros of the Ringho, moved down
the proud bull moose of the Massif! beard
ed in his snowy den the musk OK of
Manitoba slaughtered the peccaries of
Patagonia and taught the gorilla of Cham
bezi the art of gnashing, his teeth. The
Rev. Dr. William 5. Rainsford OF 81.
Georges Church has in his study ample
evidence Of his prowess as hunter of big
game. the walls being decorated with ant
Jers of the royal elk and claws and teeth
of the pugnacious grizzly If l mistake
not Dr. Rainsford has a brother in the
British Army, Colonel Rainsford. who is
a famous hunter. He may be in South
Africa now shooting bigger game than
Britisher ever shot before since our Amer
lean Revolution.