The San Francisco call., 1910-07-25
Seals Make Il -Four OUT Of Six By TrOunCnQ Beavers Agar
CADDY SAYS TAFT
IS BULLY GOLFER
Sunburned Lad Chats With tho
Chief Executive and Advises
Him i'm His Play
Especial Dispatch to The Cali

Especial Dispatch TO The Call
BOSTON, Mass, July 24.-"Mr. Taft
Is a Jolly good fellow. He Is one OF
the finest men i have ever met and L
have eaddied for nearly al the mem
bers of the MyOpia club He plays q
good, Consistent game of golf, aver
aging less than the crack players, Dut
never varying nor slumping. You can
lust bet L shall go caddying for
him as long as he wants me."-HuestOn
Lovett, President Taft's 1910 caddy.
The proudest and most envied lad in
all America today is Hueston Lovett'
a small sunburned boy with slight
thin figure, straight yellow hair and
difident manner, President Tafts
chosen caddy during the summer
months
president Taft doesn't. play nearly
as good a game as some Of the club
members" the youngster said, put
he is much more consistent than any
of them Where other players make
bogey one day and fall back TO 100 or
more the next. he is absolutely steady
and plays in around 104 to 1O6 all the
time. Once he played around 80
But although the president some
times is lucky, he is also usually un-
lucky on certain holes. Over a good
part of the course he will play close
to bogey and then get into hole that
takes ten or dozen strokes to get
out of. 1t is that retards his game.
He talks to me a good deal about
golf After a bad shot he asks me TO
explain just how he came to make IL
so that he will not do the same thing
a second time.
Sometimes he asks my Nadvice on
just how to make a certain shot
His greatest trouble seems to be
that he makes his shots too deep. so
that he strikes underneath the ball,
hits the turf and spoils both his direc-
tiOn and some of the force of the
swing. But he is constantly practic-
ing and with good players. too. so that
look to see him get better in his
game steadily
Some days, however, he sets such
a pace for good shots that now a shot
of this kind has been dubbed the
presidents luck and everybody that
comes to the Myopia club to play is
always trying for a presidents luck
shot
When the president varies the con-
versation from golf it is usually to
ask me about myself. how I like my
wOrk-my school work, and so on. He
often asks me who people are that we
meet and see in the distance espe-
cially when they are going to address
him and he wants to be able to call
them by name.
His favorite golf opponents are
John Hays Hammond and Henry c.
Friek. both of whom are with him a
great deal. They can usually beat
him, too, and now while he is away
for a time, Mr.. Hammond is practicing
up and taking Instructions from Jones
so that he may be surely able to beat
the president when he returns.
Occasionally 1 catch stray bits of
conversation not intended for me as the
president plays with his opponents.
but 1t is too much like eavesdropping
to try to listen even when 1 am near
them and not ahead after the ball.
With Mr.. F'rick the other day he
chatted about Carnegie. and from
time to time lots of big men come in
for discussion.
Il asked him the other day what he
thought about Mr.. Roosevelt and how
he liked him. He answered right
away that he was a Jolly good fell
low, nice man. I like him.
Anyway, he has adopted some of
Mr.. Roosevelt's phrases, for after a
good shot he always cries out. That
was d bully shot, but when he gets
into bad place or makes a poor shot,
he always exclaims, BY George or
o. pshaw,' before he turns to me 10
ask what the trouble was with his
stroke