Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-18
Transformed from cycIonic De-
baters Into Lamblike Sport
DeYotees.
CONGRESSMAN TOWNSEND
DESCRIBES THEIR PLAY
President Wilson's Scores Are
Guarded. Like Other State
Secrets.

tall washington socially would nave
stagnated had it not been for its
lately developed opportunities for
Ouf-of- doors recrCatious and the in
doors affairs, which one may call
10y products Of golf and tennis The
reason, of course, for this is not
wholly the present-day lure Of golf
links and tennis courts. the added
reasons being the suspension Of al
social affairs in the White House,
owing to the death OF Mrs. Wilson
this affecting the homes of cabinet
officials as well--and the war in
Europe, which has suspended social
affairs in many embassies.
In sort of way Senator Ne~lanuS,
of Nevada, may be said to have made
outdoor life possible for Washington;
certainly he made it more eonve-
niently obta'ne In that long time
ago I've spoken Of NeWlands was q
member of the House. and had the
income of a rich estate to invest AZ
trustee. One day he asked Senator
Jones. of his state, for advice as to
investment in the District. and the
wise old senator drew a pencil line
on a District may indicating an eN-
tension of Connecticut avenue north
west out through the farms and
Woodlands beyond Rock Greek toward
the Maryland line.
BUY acreage property out there
grade it. build streets, sewers, light
II, build car lines-you'n found 4
suburban district Washington must
have" said the senator.
Ii took courage--and millions OF
dollars-to act on that advice. but
Newlands did so.
Result of His Courage.
Today Connecticut avenue spans
Rock creek by a handsome bridge,
arches springing from arches sup
porting a solid roadway. and con-
tinues not only to the District fne,
but a couple of miles into Maryland.
Il is the main avenue through WASH
ingtons fashionable suburb cab
bage fields turned into lawns sur
rounding hundreds of villas and thou
sands of modest little ten or fifteen
room cottages Newlands invited
Washington out into the country and
Il went with rush.
To return to our mutton: Beyond
the district line over in Maryland, but
stu IN the Chevy Chase additions,
Washington people have built two
1s-hole golf links. each with It's dozen
tennis courts and each with big
clubhouse designed rather more 50
hnuii III the IlEllOHOllleAA uioLi 49, -
teas, dinners and dances. This fall
they are the centres of all that goes
on socially in Washington.
The first formed of these golf clubs.
Chevy Chase, got for members the
pick of official society. Cabinet OIL
GERS, diplomats, generals and admi-
Gals and President Taft set the seal of
final official approval upon Chevy
Chase by joining the club and playing
there regularly.
Better Links for Less Exalted.
A little beyond the Chevy Chase |
links is the Columbia Country Club
course, with better links TO play over,
but with a membership of less ex-
allied officials. Besides spending lot
OF money for ground Improvement
Columbia had a big and expensive
clubhouse to run and was not doing
very well, thank you, until the Con-
gress elected in 1910 began its session. |
Some country club members diseov-
cred that in that Congress were two
score or so Of ardent golfers, and lie
induced the club officials to offer these
congressional golfers attractive terms
Tor special membership Thirty-five
on forty representatives and senators
Joined, and then the President. turn
ing down Chevy Chase's offer OF hon
orary membership, allowed as how
he'd like to play over the Columbia
links, was elected in the usual man
uer, sent his little Check-and there
SOU are. Columbia prospers.
This summer during the hereafter
20 be known as long session, during
The months when the lingering sun
permitted daylight approach to the
eighteenth hole as late Us S O'Clock
IN the evenings, there was a hike of
golfers from both ends of the Caption
after adjournment.
And much truly wonderful golf was
played. Not all of the duffer quality
either, for Senator Hollis of New
Hampshire, and Senator salisbury,
at Delaware, have been prize win
ners on their own home links, and
similar honors have been won IN
smart golf company by Representa-
tives Oglesby, of New York; Nhaley,
of South Carolina, and Connolly of
iowa.
But gentle reader, from general
impressions you have received Of
them, would YOU guess that Sena-
tors Bristow, Cummins and OGor-
man, Representatives Prouty In
derwood and Fitzgerald are the most
devoted golfers in Congress- It's so.
If one were writing OF less dlstin
Ynissable to say Of them that they
are golf nuts" What want to
write now is not study of golf, but
q study in some amazing reyersals
III accredited temperament ! have
observed in some Of these statesmen
golfers.
CycIonic ia House; Placid on Green.
Take two instances: Representa-
lives Prouty just elected to the Su-
preme Court Of Iowa, by the way)
end Fitzgerald of New York. Judge
prouty in action on the floor Of the
House is a cyclone backed by an
luminous black cloud
He is a tall. spare, outstanding
gniddle-aged man, of the Lincoln
type. one often hears it said, whose
special mental equipment makes him
she sturdy foe Of proposed fool taxa
Lion measures. When he is on the
goor pointing out the errors of their
economic notions to proponents Of
taxation fads his heavy brows clinch
over his eyes in q manner peculiarly
stern He speaks rapidly with an
admirable vocabulary, wherein
phrases of intolerance for stupidity,
of denunciation, draw you the picture
Of a man of nothing less than I'M
cbangeable acerbity Of temper
on the golf links ne displays a
sweetness of temper unaltered by a
hole in nine which he should have
1nadc in four. / can say no more to
y golfer. Bunkers, traps, lost balls,
Gnattentive caddies, none of the trials
Of golf 50 much as ripple the smiling
1,lacidity of his temper.
Fitzgerald, Of Brooklyn, chairman
VI the appropriations committee and
'.the best parliamentarlan in Con-
&ress, says Champ Clark, is austere
when he is at work on the floor. He
"a prodiglous worker and thorough,
and it is excusable in him that he
Knows that he knows more about his
appropriation provisions than any
other man in or out of Congress.
When he is presenting" a bill as