The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-10
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FAILS TOCHANCE
PRESIDENT CAL
Politicians Find He Still
Can't BE Slapped on
the Back.
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Coolidge prefers to go it alone.
Usually men reveal themselves at
play, but with Coolidge the mystery
only grows. The closer one gets to
him the more fascinating the enigma
becomes. Coolidge came up here
with the intention of developing a
neglected side Of his public person
atty. He had never played. His
advisers thought he needed human
izing."
Much Advertised
That was the point Of the suddenly
advertised fishing hobby. Great pains
were taken to sep that the angling
exploits of the President were broad
cast. He bad once made a remark
&bout fishing which was construed
10y many as derogatory. Up here he
was going to fish wilma vengeance.
Revising the attitude of liftime
probably was not exactly what he
would have liked most, Usually his
vacations had been one long sit in
terrupted by an occasional walk.
But he took his fishing rod with
whatever misgivings, gritted his
teeth and threw himself Gu the
mercy Of his guide. There was a
painful silence. Then n hungry pike
snapped at the presidential hook.
That was thrill Of the Coolidge life
time.
calvin" exclaimed Mrs. Coolidge
suspiciously, when her husband APP
preached holding up his flnny tro-
ply. you never caught that fish"
Yep" he replied, heading for the
dining room, hurriedly eating. He
went out at dusk at the little bridge
near the cottage and took lessons in
casting. Cares of state were fully
neglected that night At daylight
he went out again to practice throw
ing the fly.
The New Coolidge
Thirty literary gentlemen pounced
en- their typewriters, and wrote of
the new Coolidge-the man who
never had learned to play had be-
come a boy again. He was human
Z ltcr all. Day after day he went out
in sun and rain, missing lunch, let
ting the dinner get cold. He rode
! IL new hobby harder than a man
with a new radio.
But looking closely again this de-
to,m'ned angler is found to be our
came old mystery. The real Coolidge
IL tucked away inside of one skull
rs .snugly as ever. One Cabinet
PREMIER had been reading the fish
stories and galloped all the way
from Washington, doubtless, with
visions of sIapping the new Cool
iGge on the back, swapping fish
warns. and, Of course, showing the
President the real way to catch fish.
But when he burst into camp, mis-
Swing suddenly appeared. He got
the same greeting as of old.
In the Morning
But maybe it would be different in
the morning, when they went fish
ing together. He assumed he would
go, of course. But the next morn
ing the President stole out quietly
alone and went on to the woods. The
Cabinet member ate his breakfast,
chatted with Mrs. Coolidge, wan
dered around the grounds and wait
ed until the President came back
for n late lunch. That is all Of the
Presidents fishing this visitor ever
saw. The President was obliged to
make motor trip the next day. and
he rode alone in the White House
limousine, putting his Cabinet Wis
itor in a car to the rear. -
Goes Alone
Almost invariably Coolidge has
done his fishing alone with only
guide. II His son John, 20, has never
accompanied his father. When
Coolidge went to Plymouth, Vt, re-
Gently, he fished in Pinneys Run
alone, although the best fisherman
in the Cabinet, his old friend, Attor-
ney General Sergeant, was visiting
him. The woods here are full of
wealthy sportsmen, but none of them
has been invited to hang his line
alongside the Presidents. He Us the
old, familiar Coolidge, the same who
10 methodically rides the White
House electric horse, only here he
just happens to have fishing rod
in his hand.
His Wife
Mrs. Coolidge rarely goes out of
the grounds, and then only on a
shopping trip with some wife of
member of the executive staff here.
The President has accepted no hos
nitalitV from the wealthy neon1a who