The sun., 1908-07-14
ROOSEVELT AT A POLO GAME
Continued from First Page.

and has asked me to have dinner with him
at the Racquet Club tonight. But it's
80 dinged hot don't know that I'll go up
to town
The long shadows of the clubhouse W ere
stretching far out upon the sunlit turf Of
the polo field when the Presidents nephew,
Teddy Douglas Robinson, rode up on his
polo pony to within few feet Of where MIR.
Roosevelt and his party sat on the un-
covered veranda OF the clubhouse and dis
mounted. Teddy Robinson wore a yellow
silk blouse with broad white band running
diagonally across the bosom. white pith
helmet and the ostentatious spectacles that
belong to the family. He dismounted.
shook hands all around and then cantcred
out upon the field and took his place.
AS the polo game got under way the
friends Of the Roosevelt family wandered
up to say howdy. Gradually the veranda
filled up as sunset came and there were
three girls to every man. Foxhall Keene.
looking breezy in a nifty cap and blue
serge suit, walked up the single step that
brought him to where Mr.. Roosevelt was
nibbling at toast and slipping tea Che
President takes one lump and just about a
spoonful of cream and no milk and after a
few words leaned toward Mrs Roosevelt
and remarked:
Maybe they'll do some riding out there
indicating the gathering polo players
"but here's the only man that rode all even
ing after days hunting with a broken
arm"
Il nevor knew it was really broken"
barked the President with grin. Il
really didn't feel it,"
The two little sons of Mrs. W. r. X. Taylor
were sitting only about a rod away waiting q
their chance to say hello to the great per-
sonage slipping the tea. just back of them
Mrs. Taylor was sitting intent upon gray
jacket Of some kind that she was knitting
and seemingly unconscious of the fact
that the First Citizen was a few chairs away.
The little Taylors, Anson and w. r. X, Jr
who ars exactly the same size, dress exactly
alike and are known as the taylor twins" !"
waited expeotantly.
Miss Tomlinson came up and said hello.
So did the Misses Yoss and Kennedy and
Prescott Slade. p. B. Thompson, Hobart
Porter, E. l.. Smith. A. l.. Norris, William
Raymond. w. Adams, Daniel Chauncey
Daniel Chawcey, Jr., William A. Hazard,
Woodward Babcock and the wives of all
these Somebody brought over flock
OF a dozen kiddies, little boys in white duck
and little girls with big bows in their hair,
And there was one little boy in sort Of
buster Drown bulL WHOSE l6IC leg was en-
cased in iron braces and who swung UP to
the President slowly on crutohes. His
mother presented him and it was to the
crippled boy that Mr.. Roosevelt paid the
most attention of all the kiddie visitors that
focked along the veranda to sec him.
One seedy person, a young man scarce
out Of his teens, sidled tow ard the President.
Instantly clean cut man in his 3os who ha
been sitting back unnoticed jumped TO his
feet and intercepted the seedy person.
What 10 you want?" the man in his
'3Oe demanded abruptly
I'll want to git look at the President, "
stammered the seedy stable attendant,
abashed
well, you can see him from here, cam
you?" inquired-warned the Secret Service
man, who bad gone unnoticed until now
When the game began there oouldn t
have been more than $50 persons on the
veranda. On the tennis courts adjoining
many young men and girls were rapping
the tennis balls with gay abandon and
evidently with no desire to see anything
but a winning score for their set Mr..
Roosevelt was saying, I'm very glad to
see you" (he's dropped the delighted, F"
you know, and then he would resume his
tea and he and for that matter the entire
veranda would watch the galloping ponies
Just in front of them.
aOh, TeddyEdid It'll Teddy did It'll" cried
young Mrs. Robinson. Teddys wife. when