Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-21
Champions in Cabinet

Star State. He remembers with pleas
ure trip to Port Arkansas, Tex, about
so miles north Of Corpus Christi, where
he captured several huge tarpon and a
number Of sharks President Hoover
and Secretary Hyde have had several
heart-to-heart chats about fishing ex-
perlences they have had, and the two
are likely to be found together on some
OF the presidential piscatorial excur-
sions Of the future.
If the Postmaster General is a better
cock than Secretary Wilbur, he must
prove it. The Interior Secretary as
much as said so recently when advised
OF Mr.. Browns abilities as a cook. DR..
Wilbur has done most of his cooking
over a camp fire and he contends that
this requires real resourcefulness. It
seems not unlikely that cooking con-
test between the two cabinet culinary
artists will become inevitable.
A S hunter it Is doubtful II any
other member of the cabinet pos
sesses a record that can compare with
that Of Attorney General Mitchell.
Secretary Stimson used to handle a
rifle skilfully and often followed the
hounds during the hunting season. He
is fast rider ard a fearless one
qualities which won the personal COM
mendation of the presidential rough
rider. Theodore Roosevelt.
Secretary Wilbur also likes to hunt
and has shot small game in the Cali
fornia forests on numerous occasions.
The Attorney General, however has
an enviable reputation as might.
Nimrod in the realm of big game hunt
ing. He is crack shot. His unerrjr1
aim has brought down every species 4
wild animal to be found on the Norti
American continent. He has baggeI
mountain lions in the Colorado Mour1
tains. moose in Canada and bears IL
Alaska. He has cold-storage room
full Of trophies back home in Mime
sofa.
OF late, Mr.. Mitchell has exchanged
his trusty rife for a professional mo-
ton picture camera.
COLF seems destined to be neglected
~ by the present cabinet. The Pres
ident doesn't play the game, although
his younger son. Allan, is frequenter Of
the links. Several Of the cabinet mem
bers like golf, but find little time to
practice 1t. Secretary Lamont plays
what he calls IAN elderly mans game"
Ills SCO1C dlCAdSCo w. I1C ID o
member of the Burning Tree Club in
nearby Maryland Postmaster General
Brown is a member of the Washington
Golf and Country Club, of which Mr..
Hoover is a member of the board, and
would be seen out there more often
were it not for the pressure of business
at the Post Office Department. He
hasn't had chance to shoot as many
as nine holes for nearly three months.
Attorney General Mitchell and Secretary
Good also enjoy round of the course
when time permits, which isn't so often.
Secretary of Labor Davis COILS when the
golfing is good.
The official sport of the new admin
istration, however, appears to be bull
in the ring''-a strenuous sort OF tag
game played with heavy medicine BAH
and popular as form Of exercise on
battlesnips President Hoover learned
about the game during his South Amer
lean voyage, and now he has given his
approval to it by staging a series Of
early-morning bull in the ring" parties
in the White House Grounds.
Throwing the medicine ball Is a
man's-siZe job. Catching 1t Is an art
that requires stability of underpinning
and strength Of arm and shoulder. A
well heaved medicine ball can knock
man down II 1t catches him slightly on
balance. Naval officers declare there is
nothing like the game for getting up a
healthy sweat AS played on the U. s.
S. Utah, the ship which brought Mr..
Hoover back from South America, bull
in the ring is a circle of six or eight
men around a victim selected as the
bull" The man in the ring tries to
tage the ball as 1t is being thrown from
one player to another. If he touches 1t
the last thrower becomes the bull" and
he changes places with hini--usualD
IN . state Of near exhaustion.