Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
BY MARGARET II. DOWNING.

slgnaily that any other member of the
diplomatic body resident at the Amer
lean Capital either past or present,
and in more diverse ways. Now comes
special tribute from the sportsmen
of the United States, perhaps the
keenest and most enthusiastic of the
world. who wish to honor him In this
role. both actively and in the aca
demic sense. For NJ Jusserands
prowess on the tennis court has never
been questioned, and in the days of
his prime he often defeated his dis
tinguished friend President Roose-
Welt, and this, he once confided to the
Chief Magistrate, resulted in great
uneasiness for the foreign office. For
In Europe 1t would be against all
traditions to defeat the ruler of any
nation to which a diplomat had been
assigned in any sort of game except
statecraft.
The scholarly French envoy to
Washington is the author of many
books on sports, the best known be-
ing Sports and Pastimes of Ancient
France"
This study created a nationw
controversy in Britain, since the Am
bassador showed by incontestable
documentary evidence that the
ancient and honorable game of golf.
to which the Scotch lay claim as their
own particular invention, Is really of
Dutch origin and made its way into
the land of fogs and heather via the
Holland traders from the Hook. Like
wise, he proved to the Britons that
their highly-rated national game of
cricket was first played by the
French. If anything were needed to
prove NJ. Jusserand's marvellous tall
ents. it would be that he attacked
these strongholds of British sport at
the time when he was serving in the
French embassy at London, at the
very beginning of his diplomatic
career, and that he did not impair his
popularity one whit, though his off,
cial duties were much interrupted
answering all the letters from golf
fiends and cricket heroes demanding
further proof of his assertions. All
of the Ambassadors articles and re-
views on sports, as well as the vol
ume on ancient French sports, were
written in English, though he trans
lated that book into his language
and it has a high rating among the
thousands of volumes on the same
theme.
Mrs Herbert Hoover is one of the
graceful and efficient hostesses of the
exalted executive circle, and the halo
of the splendid work in which she
co-operated with her husband, the
Secretary of Commerce. during the
World War has oyershadowed for the
American public her claims to honor
before that tragic period. Few know
that Mrs Hoover, classmate of her
husbands, received a degree of B. 5.
in the same class as he, and, knowing
that he had chosen mining as his life
work, specialized in metallurgy just
as he did. Before fortune smiled so
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wife translated a German text book
on metallurgy. which was at once
taken over by the faculty of Leland
Stanford and from which their sons
have studied during the past four
years.
DIR. Francis Landey Patton, for
many years a president OF Princeton
University, has since his retirement
from his onerous post returned to the
land of his birth and is now affec-
tionately known as the Grand Old
Man of Bermuda" This noted min
lister and pedagogue, whose return TO
private life was coincident with the
election of another of old Nassau's
executives, DIR. Woodrow Wilson, to
the presidency of the United States,
was born at Warwick, Bermuda, and
OH January %, he will celebrate his
ceremony. His household has recently
been enriched by his two brothers,
Joseph and Robert Hunter Patton,
who retired just before Christmas
from the well known legal firm in
New York City of which they were
the founders and principal members.
They will henceforth reside in the
winter in their old home near War
wick and each will build his own
Of he Inn "a
Pattons have owned near Warwick
since pirates roamed the Spanish
main.
DR.. Patton was, until overtaken by
years and infirmities, frequent visit
or to Washington. He was an init
mate friend of the late John w. Eos
ter and Mrs. Foster and was enter
tanned at their home on Eighteenth
street now occupied by Mr.. and Mrs
Robert Lansing. Bermudians delight
in honoring DR.. Patton and will no
doubt show the same honors to his
venerable brothers. Mrs. Francis
Landey Patton, so well known for
her graceful hospitality during her
husbands terms as president OF
Princeton, is many years younger
than he and was Miss Rosa An
toinnette Stevenson, daughter of Rev
]. NJ. Stevenson of New York City.
Warwick and at the colonial capital,
Hamilton.
Mr. George D. Flynn of Fall River,
Mass, has one of the unique shooting
preserves to be found in this coun-
try, for 1t is conceded the grandest
spot on the Atlantic seaboard for
duck and wild geese hunting. Camp
tPohogonot, this game preserve COM
prises more than 5000 acres spread
over low pine and oak-covered hills
and open on to five fresh-water lakes,
and this within 10 miles of Marthas
Vineyard. Here come the wild geese
honking out of Canada, and farther
north, and ducks of every known spe-
{cies-mallards, canvasbacks, teals,
,shovelbills and redheads-so dear to
the epicure. Wild geese, however,
furnish the real excitement, and par
ties OF gunners are guests of Mr..
Flynn during the entire period of the
migration. The blue goose, SO rare
as to be almost fictional, is a frequent
visitor, though not often winged, as
to the white Alaskan goose, which
seems larger than a swan. Mr.. Flynn
permits only a certain proportion of
the game to be shot, and then WHEEL
they take flight Sometimes all five
lakes are so thickly covered with
geese and ducks, they seem like float
ing islands. Senator Butler, whose
Summer home is not far from this
region, often has found needed rest
and relaxation at Camp Pohogonot.
Mr.. Richard Tobin of San Francisco.
United States Minister to The Hague,
and his sister and chatelaine, Mrs.
Charles Raoul Duval of Paris, will be
among the visitors to greet the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Coolidge, with the re-
1nainder OF the official world, on jan