The Washington times., 1923-05-11
Postponed Tennis
Matches son" at
White House
BY JEAN ELIOT.

proved friendly, the post
poned tennis matches, which
were to have taken place on the
White House courts on Tuesday,
will be held this Afternoon and
an interesting gallery" will as
semble to cheer the players on.
The President and Mrs. Harding
have invited a number of guests
to view the play and the COM
pany will include the chief of dip
lomatic missions, Cabinet men,
bers, the Justices of the Supreme
Court, with the ladies of their
families, and q group of Mrs.
Harding's close friends. 1t will be
a highly official gathering in its
make up, but there will be little
of formality about the festivities.
The matches this afternoon will
be international in their aspects,
the players, all Of whom are TAX
ing part in the annual invitation
doubles tournament now being
held at the Chevy Chase Club,
including the Alonzo brothers OF
Spain and a Japanese tennis star.
Two abbreviated doubles matches
and one at singles will be played.
big Bill Tilden and his young
protege, SANDY" Wiener, will
open the program with a two-set
match against the Spanish stars,
Joe and Manuel Alonzo. Vincent
Richards and M. Fukuda, the
japanese star, will then take the
courts for a set, to be followed
by another one-setter between
Watson M. Washburn and r.
Norris Williams and the Japa-
nese luminaries. Shimidzu and
Kashio.
WILL H. HAYS, former chair
man of the Republican Ma
tionaI Commute, one-time Post
master General, and now "czar
of the motion picture industry"
was a visitor at the White House
yesterday and put over a. project
to link the White House with the
motion picture industry. He per-
suaded the powers that be to
make the Executive Mansion the
depository for great historical
films.
The proposal was approved by
the President and q vault in the
basement will be used for storage
purposes. George B. Christian,
jr., secretary to the President,
has been named the custodian of
the celluloid histories, and Will
have entire authority in rejecting
or accepting such as may be
offered.
those of really national character.
obV slf IF hn IN
duStry will be a film taken at
the time of President McKinley's
Inauguration. Others will be those
obtained at following Inaugural
tons, the landing of the Ameri-
of the Unknown Soldier and
Ultimately it is hoped to pros
vide permanent storage places for
such films in the Congressional
Library.
MRS. THEODORE ROO.S E.
Az WELT, widow of the former
President of the United States, has
been elected an honorary member
of the Washington Golf and Coun-
try Club as a special tribute to
lcI lHlCF0SL AL the cruz anu SUI
rounding country, which she visit
ed frequently with the Roosevelt
children when her husband was in
the White House.
Due to the friendship between
President Roosevelt and Admiral
p. M. Rixey, who was White
House physician, Mrs. Roosevelt
and the children often visited the
Rixey home, which adjoins the
golf club property.
The hills and brooks which
sometimes are such serious haz-
ards to Washington players, held
no terrors for the Roosevelt boys
Admiral Rixey, formerly sur
geon general of the United States
navy, became the White House
physician in 1899 after years Of
service with the navy, and occu-
pied the place for ten years.
Mrs. Medill Mccormick has gon
to New York for brief visit an
is at the Plaza Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Breckenridge Long
who are spending some weeks a
the Hot Springs, entertained a
luncheon yesterday at the Home
stead.