Evening star., 1934-12-19
ALLEN GIVES TITLE
TO M|SS|SS|PP|AN
"Best Despite SIicing and
Bad Putting" Ayers D. c.
Commissioner.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.


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question many times, and
In the absence of any conclusive PROOF
that any man wearing the senatorial
toga is a golfer have hesitated and
stalled around until the qucStioner
went off on some other tack. But
the answer now is clear.
The best golfer in the Senate is
Pat Harrison of Mississippi, the genial
senior Senator who brought Gene
Vinson here from "Old Mis-" to WIN
the District championship and then
let Gene slip away from Washington
to accept job in a shirt factory down
In little Meridian in his home State
When District Commissioner George
Allen admits that Pat Harrison is the
best golfer in the Senate it must be so.
For Allen has played with most OF
: the golfing Senators, has wept with
them when their shots went wrong
and has exulted with them when they
managed to stick a shot up against
the cup and hole out for par. yes,
I guess Pat is the best of them all,
Commissioner Allen says. But he
shouldn't slice so much, and he really
should putt better than he does"
Plenty Of Talent.
DA ACK in the days when the Repub-
Il licans ruled the rooSt in politics
and Republicans pulled the
strings at BURNING Tree, where the
senatorial breakfast foursomes are a
fixture each Sunday morning, there
were lots of golfng Senators. Some
of them now play as ex-Senators, but
there still are plenty of golfing Sena-
tors, and strangely enough, as Senator
White of Maine says, some Of them
are from that dying race, the Repub-
Gcan Senate group.
There are Senator White himself,
stepfather of Dick Lunn, the lad who
won the District amateur champion
ley, Duffy, '.Puddler" Jim Davis
from Pennsylvania, Walcott, Dietrich,
fiery McNary and equally fiery Cou-
zens, and many members of the House
who play in those breakfast four
somes.
But OF them all, to hear George
Allen tell it, Pat Harrison is the best.
The genial senior Senator from Mis-
sissippi could have held his own even
in those Republican days when Sen
ators Harding, Frelinghuysen and Hale
ruled the rooSt, and when Senators
Kellogg and Gillette were doggoned
good golfers.
Plays in Low sos.
TODAY Harrison plays Burning
Tree in the low 8Os, something
no other Senator can do con-
sistently, and he has had brace of
75s over that rugged golf course. He
also has holed his second shot for an
eagle deuce on the par 4 first hole,
a hole that stretches out to around
400 yards and is a tough affair fol
even your finer golfer. OF ex-Senators
there are plenty in those Sunday
morning games at Burning Tree, but
Harrison still reigns as the top golfer
of them all, in and out of the Senate.
Former wearers of the toga who
play in those matches include former
Senators Sutherland of West Virginia,
Bingham of Connecticut, and Kellogg
Of Minnesota, when he is in Washing
ton. Every once In a while Senators
Shipstead and Wheeler try out their
golf clubs at Burning Tree, but if you
believe those who have watched 'em
all in action they are not as good at
smacking the ball as some Of the
others in the upper chamber.
So Pat Harrison. long may he live,
Is the best golfer in the Senate. The
question of the ages is answered.
George Allen says it is so and so 1t
must be. Who could go behind the
studied word Of a District Com
missioner?