South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-31
WILSON ENJOYS
BASEBALL CANES
President and Bride Keen on
Golf and Yachting Trips
in MayflOWer.

WASHINGTON March 21.-Pres't
and Mrs Wilson are looking for
ward with keen interest to the open
ing Of the baseball season.
Pres't Wilson and his consort en-
joy other sports. nut owing to the
heavy cares Of state with which Mr..
Wilson has HAD upon him almost
continuously since his Inauguration,
he is unable to indulge in but few
Of them
Golf takes the front rank in the
presidents recreatiOns. He took up
golf because it furnished both pleas
ure and exercise at the same time
owing 10 the heavy demands on
his time it is impossible for him to
get away from the white house until
long after 2 o'clock in the after
noon. And during the winter
months the days are so short that
only about nine holes can be played.
The president is becoming a very
good golf player He has always
been a fair driver. but only recently
has he become really good with
irons
Mrs. Wilson is developing into "A
fair player. 1t was not until last
October that Mrs. Wilson took up
golf. This was after her engage
ment to the president. She began
with some friends and the members
of her family on one of the smaller
links around Washington. 4 few
weeks before her engagement was
announced. Mrs. Wilson played "a
few games with the president She
has been his golf companion ON
every occasion he has played since
then. It was under his tutorage
she began picking up the finer points
of the game.
Both the president and Mrs. Will
son get keen pleasure out of their
game. And. like other perfectly
healthy human beings. they some
times argue over their respective
shots and whether the shot was
pulled or sliced They laugh at
each other. too, when a deep hole
i'm the rough becomes the lodging Of
the ball
Recently the president and Mrs
Wilson have taken TO yachting trips
Both the president and Mrs. Wilson
are fond of the water and when
Sec'y of the Navy Daniels assured
the president the MayflOwer could
so down the Potomac and cruise
around the Chesapeake and still be
i'm touch with the white house. state.
war and navy departments through
the wireless. the president decided
that an excellent way TO spend a
week end was on the Mayhower
Hence. almost every Saturday night
sees the MayflOwer with the presi-
dent and his wife aboard steam out
from the Washington navy yard.
stops at Historic Places.
stops at historic places along the
famous Potomac and the Chesa-
peake are made on these trips and
the president and wife go ashore
and take Ions walks. on the last
trip a visit was paid TO Newport
News and the site OF the jamestown
exposition. on a previous trip Fort
Monroe and old Point Comfort We're
visited trip 10 historical old
Yorktown and 10 William and Mary
college at Williamsburg were made.
Walks of from three 10 a9e miles
are taken when the presidential
party disem barks while on the
cruises. The president has derived
much pleasure and benefit from
these trips. ON no trip has ne gone
so far as 10 be out OF touch with
Washington or more than . hours
steaming time from the capital
The president, too, Is fond OF mo-
toring and walking. When the
" feather is so bad that golf is out
of the question a long motor ride is
taken. These rides usually are taken
IN heavy rain or snowstorm i'm the
winter months II is not so Ina the
summer. When the weather be-
comes SO hot it is labor TO play golf.
the PRECEDENT and Mrs Wilson use
the automobiles Many trips into
The surrounding country are planned
tor Gke hot days Of this spriRS and