The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-05-24
WHITE HOUSE
TENNIS COURT
lMal spceIal 10 lhe Adverilser.l

its place In the activities of the ad
ministraton of President Theodore
Roosevelt. Although the spring has
been backward. the leaves are now on
the trees, the grass in the White House
grounds is green, and every afternoon
there are scores of young and athletic
officials scattered throughout the many
departments of the government, who
are anxious for summons from the
Notwithstanding it comes by tele-
phone, sometimes by messenger-to be
p. m.
1t is of course a matter of distinc-
tion to belong to the tennis cabinet.
There has never been more than a
dozen members and the President in
vites in new men rather charity. Dur
ing the present spring there have been
two nitiates-Postmaste General Geo
Won l.. Meyer, of Massachusetts, and
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Beekman Winthrop, until recently gov
ernor of Porto Rico. Whether they will
become steadies' is yet to be de-
termined. Mr. Meyer was invited to
play soon after he entered the cabinet
but has not been heard from much
since. Whether or not he played a
game that met with the President s APP
proval is not known.
IT, President has shown quite a
~seazzess for Harvard graduates in his
tennis cabinet, as he has, as a matter
of fact, in his real cabinet and in other
important government positions. A
young and athletic Harvard graduate
coming to Washington is pretty sure
to be "tried out on the big court
right at the rear of the White House
Offices Won L. Meyer and Winthrop
are Harvard graduates, as is First As
sistant Secretary of State Robert Ba-
con, who was the Presidents class
mate. Bacon is one of the men often
invited to the tennis court and is very
much of personal favorite with the
President. Their families visit much
back and forth. Bacon is probably
the best athlete of all those who play
on the tennis court. He has strength
enough and a physique powerful
enough to knock tennis ball over
against the Washington Monument, a
quarter of Il mile away.
Secretary of the Interior James r.
Garfield and Assistant Secretary of |
Commerce and Labor Lawrence o. Muir |
ray used to be asked to the tennis |
court almost daily when the President
was playing. SO did Chief Forester
clifford Pinchot. Garfield used to be
Commissioner of Corporations and he
and Murray were colleagues in the
same department. None of these three
has been seen very much on the tennis
court this season, but that may not
signify anything. The Washington
weather this spring has been fitful and
Dnly on occasional days has it been
possible to have game. For while
The President often goes horseback
riding when it is raining hard, and
'ften goes tramping in the country
when the weather is anything but
agreeable, he ventures out on the ten
MS court only when the temperature
s really comfortable for playing.
1t has been rumored around Wash
ngton that the President has become
little weary of Secretary Garfield IS
requent visits to the White House
ffices, The cartoonists have been
rawing pictures of Garfield and his ;
boottracks White House {
Vard and some are saying that the /
resident is not so enthusiastic about l
he presence of the Secretary of the {
Interior and son of former Presi {
ent as he used to be. However, it
lay be that "Jimmie' will be play. '
IL on the tennis court as usual now
lat the warm days have come. Hither- |
! the. Department of Commerce and
abor has been more favored than any {
Their department in the number of
,nnis players who vie with the Presi
emf For besides Garfield, as Com
Missioner of Corporations, and Murray, c
erbert Knox Smith, young man who {
lcceeded to the chair vacated by Mr.. c
arkeld when he became Secretary OF I
ie Interior, has been often asked to |
lay tennis on the White House court. Q
Real cabinet officers have not shared s
ueh in the President S tennis sport, |
lstice Moody, when Secretary of the /
avy and later when Attorney General, 1
as invited over for an occasional /
anne but he did not take very kindly c
the strenuous work with racquet, /
$ a Harvard student Mr., Moody used d
, be a good baseball player, but Mr., !
can not play baseball See I
starry of the Navy Metenlf, formerly
eeretary of Commerce ANA Labor and d
Yale athlete In his college days, was /
lyited over TO the tennis court once /
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