Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-28
TENNIS GAME PLAYED
President and Lord Bishop of
 London In Athletic Set-to.
DETAILS CAREFULLY GUARDED
Noted PreIate Had Secretary Garfield For Partner, but No Information Concerning International Contest or the Winning Team Is DivuIsed.


 Washington, Sept. 2S.-Who won the great international lawn tennis match between President Roosevelt and the bishop of London? .'.
 This question may never be answer ed. It may finally occupy a niche alongside the proposition as to how old is Ann and who struck Billy Pat terson?
 One great fact stands out pre-emi- nently, like a two weeks washing in the front yard. This fact is that the match game was played in the White House court The minor details have arranged themselves as subsidiary facts. These secondary shadows dis play themselves in about the follow ing order:
 The tennis match was a double af- fair. Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States, and Afford w. Cooley, an assistant attorney general, played against the Right Rev. Arthur Foley Wilmington Ingram, bishop of London and dean of the chapels royal, and James R. Garfield, secretary of the interior. The bone of contention was to win two out of three sets. The only spectator present was Silas McBee, editor of the Churchman.
 Details Bottled Up.
 When the game was concluded the president called the little party around him and exacted a solemn promise from each and every one to can the details and never, never open the can.
 He requested that no information concerning the international contest should ever be disclosed and that the name of the winning team should un- der no circumstances be diyulged.
 Those proficient in the making of dope sheets and hand books figure out that the president and Cooley won hands down. They estimate that the match stood one set to each and that the third was thrilling and interest consuming spectacle, with every nerve on edge and each muscle at its great est tension. The argument advanced Is that if the president and Cooley had lost they would have handed out the tidings to all corners, but that as the visiting religionist was worsted the president magnanimously considered his wounded pride and, enjoined, esi- lence, or would it have been the other way?
 Beat Out the Rain.
 The lord bishop entered the arena full of courage. The oldest in years, he was as spry as sixteen-year-old girl eating hot popcorn. He pranced around like youngster. Uncle Joe" Cannon and Henry Gassaway Davis would never mention being young again if they had seen the lord bishop.
 The lord bishop does not yet know of the fiendish advantage which the president took of his trusting and con- fiding disposition. The president did nothing at all to the lord bishop but segregated Garfield and Cooley out in the backyard and practice with them for a couple of hours while the guile less representative of the church was speeding hither. But this dumping of the lord bishop went even further. In order that the president and Cooley might have the actual team practice Murray of the department of com. merce and labor was called in and assisted in rattling Garfield.
 The president and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a dinner party in honor of the lord bishop at which these guests were present: Secretary and Mrs. Metcalf, Surgeon General and Mrs. Rixey, the Right Rev. pr. Brent, bishop of the Philippine Islands; Mrs. Satterlee, Mrs. Bayard, Mir. and Mrs. Glover. Silas McBee and Captain Fitz Hugh Lee. Silas McBee is a house guest.