The Washington herald., 1913-09-14
Statesmen in Golf Contest.

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Stand aside everybody and make way
for the greatest aggregation Of golf tai
ent In public life ever seen under the blue
canopy Of heaven.
There is to be some game, believe me-
when some eighteen or twenty Senators
and Representatives meet on the links
Of the Columbia Country Club in this
city on Monday, the ssth:
There Is to be a fight to the finish for
golf supremacy between the best players
CT the Senate and the House, and the
statesmen are all as eager for the fray
as a parcel OF schoolboys: What care
they for the tariff or the currency or
the flesh-pots of political jobs when the
great question of who are the best play
ers remains undetermined? Not one red
cent
There are about twenty Senators and
twice or three times as many Representa-
tives In the Columbia Country Club, and
for some time past defiances and ehal-
lenges have been floating through the
air. The Senators brought the rivalry
to a crisis when Senator salisbury of
Delaware sent a letter to Representative
Townsend of New York, asserting that
the Representatives were afraid to meet
the Senator'S. He described the Sena-
toTial contingent as champing at the Bit
and said that II the members did not get
busy they would be published TO the
world as arrant towards. OF course,
Ed. Townsend would not stand for lang
wldge" like that, and II wasn't long be-
fore the golf team of the House was
fully organized. Now there is going 10
be something doing. and the losers are
to be hosts at dinner to mark the out
come Of the struggle.
As IN all out-of-door contests there has
to be lineup. Here are the distin-
guished participants in the greatest golf
match that ever was or ever will be;
senAto-HolHs Of New Hampshire. captain; sauls
bury Of Delaware, Cummlns Of Iowa Hitchcock
u Nsbraska, BnstOw of Kansas, O'GOraan OF New
York. Townsend Of Michigan. LipTttt Of Rhode
Island, Owen OF Oklahoma, Pittman Of Nevada.
Walsh of Montana. and Rsns1eu Of Louisiana.
House-Oglesby Of New York. captain; WhaleJ
Of South Carolina Townsend Of New Jerscy. Gillstt
Of Massachusetts, TreadwSy Of MEssachusstis. F1ts-
gerald Of New York, PrCuty Of Iowa, Kent OF
California Tuttle uf New Jersey, Walsh q New
JeSey. Connolly Of Iowa. Murduck Of Kansas. Boz
land q Missouri. and Underwood Of Alabama
Representatives Underwood and BOrland
are on the team as substitutes. Mr.. Bor-
land says that he can swing a scythe bet
ter than he can a golf club, and Mr.
Underwood. although he has been a golf
player for ten years or more. has been
too busy with the tariff bill TO get any
practice, and everybody knows that II q
golf player does not keep perslstently at
work be gets off his game However. II
it becomes necessary Mr.. Underwood will
go out on the field and do his best to up
hold the supremacy OF the House.
Now as to the players. Senator Hollis
is n real golfer He first played at the
Beaver Meadow Golf Club, at Concord.
n. H, and was taught by Alexander H
Findlay. the famous Scotch professional
He was twice runner-up IN the New
Hampshire State championship tourna-
ment, has several times been champion
OF the Beaver Meadow Club. and is
handicapped as low as twelve in the
Massachusetts Golf Association. He was
captain OF his club for many years and
until he was elected to the Senate. He
plays a fine game with the skill and ex-
perience OF n veteran, and Representa-
tive Oglesby will have to make the effort
OF his life to beat him
Senator Salisbury, too. is some golfer.
He has PLAYED on the team of the Will
mington Country Club, and is just as
dippy about the game as John F1tzger-
aid. which is saying a good deal SEN
ator Salisbury is one of the kind OF play
ers who never says much about his
scores, so that he disguises his real
strength from his opponent He has made
some remarkable low scores on the Will
mington links. and he has negotiated the
Columbia links in-but that's a secret.
At any rate, there seems to be trouble
ahead for the Representative who tackles
him. Cur1mins and Bristow, too. are
more than fair players. Mr.. Cummins
has been playing golf for eighteen years.
learning the game at the Des Moines
Golf and Country Club, and, while he
has not been a prize winner, he knows
all the fine points OF the game. and is
an antagonist TO be feared Senator Bris-
tow belongs TO the Wichita Country Club.
but all his golf playing knowledge has
been acquired since he has been in Wash
ington. He plays a careful game and
knows how to keep out of the traps and
bunkers and other pitfalls which are
placed for the unwary.
Hitchcock Of Nebraska is a golf fan.
He would sooner play golf than eat. The
story is told of him that he once made
an engagement 10 meet a man at II
O'Clock in the morning, but went out to
the links instead. The man followed him,
met him on one Of the tees, talked busl-
ness with him, and then left, whereupon
Hitchcock became peeved because the
interruption put him of his game. He
is one Of the founders of the Omaha
Country Club, and has participated In
many tournaments, although not a prize
winner He used to play golf a great
deal with Gov. Cox OF Ohio, formerly a
Representative in Congress, and Mr.. Cox
now has one Of Hitchcocks photographs
with this legend: Yours for golf De
mocracy, and eternal friendship" II
will be noticed that golf comes first.
Senator O'Gorman also plays a good
game, one of the steady and reliable kind.
One OF his peculiarities is that he always
goes out and plays a game of golf II
he has TO make a speech in the evening.
He finds that the exercise of walking,
the fresh air in his lungs, and the vision
of green fields and trees stimulates his
mind and enables him to do himself
proud. 1t was largely through Senator
O'Gorman's kind Offices that President
Wilson became an honorary member Of
the Columbia Country Club. Not being
a partisan when II comes to golf play
ing, he frequently plays with his Re-
publican colleagues, among whom, by the
way, is Senator Townsend of Michigan.
Mr.. Townsend is a worthy opponent Of
any golfer, and loves the game for its
companionships and for the exercise
But there are some Senatorial golfers
who are not among the top-notchers
Take Ransdell of Louisiana, for instance. |
Mr. Ransdell has just taken up the game, |
and, while he is developing as a player, |
he naturally lacks the experience neces- |
sary to achieve victory. Senator owen Of
who confesses to being fifty |
seven and does not look day older |