Show i t I I I I i I PASTIMES OF PRESIDENTS Boston Globe Before his trip to 10 Panama President I Roosevelt Quested Ion long and diligently I II I for a shot at one oneo of Virginias wild turkeys tur turkeys keys kes and not until after atter a hunt hint h nt of or four tour days das In Jn the vicinity of ot Pine did he succeed In getting a fair view of ot one over his gun sun sights It had been be n a match of ot hunting skill against ag turkey cunning and at the end of o the hunt the president won Those interested Inte est d in the brush shooting shoot shot in Ing and big game hunting trips of or the president his gallops across country and other athletic exercises peed need only to examine the records of vi former occupants occupants occupants pants of the White House to learn le rn that he Is not the first chief executive to turn to the open fields for sport and recreation Duck hunting J and upland bird shoot shootIng shooting t tIng Ing appealed to Washington before he lie became a general In the revolutionary re army armr and the same ilme waters which pro provided vided tided such sueh excellent wild fowling for him have since pince been shot over success successfully success successfully fully by 1 Presidents Harrison d d Cleve Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland land When a boy bo Washington and Lord L rd Fairfax who had settled In Virginia became fast friends and md his hili hi skillful riding and love of sports greatly inter InterI ester tH the old nobleman They Thc hunted the fox together Utter letter active life was teas ag largely lanel out of doors so too were his pleasures He loved the fresh fres h open op n air existence of ot the woods and and there he found his one great amuse amusement amusement ment meat He shot hot and fished ed put did not care much for these pursuits for his hobby was hunting bunting which gratified at once his passion for horses and dogs and his love for the strong s strong rong excitement of the chase when with just enough danger to make it really fas faa fascinating fascinating Upon his horse he would fol follow follow follow low his hounds over the roughest Toughest coun country country country try often ending the hunt alone the timid riders having withdrawn from the dangerous chase He owned many valuable horses including the high highbred hl highbred h bred hunters Valiant AJax and No more enthusiastic angler and duck dUlk hunter could be b imagined than I President Pre ident Cleveland Cleeland He is a keen per persistent persistent wild fowler and not even eyen that grand but departed old angler of pleasant memory Joseph Jefferson Jenerson could impart more delicacy to a long cast for the wary trout He Heis HeIs Heis is quick with the gun and a sure wing shot and hunted every foot of the Chesapeake bay country countr Of quail shooting he ile was particularly fond butas but butas butas as as he advanced in years ears and took less readily to following the setters and pointers the salt sea air all and the whirr Gf cf duck wings enticed him almost wholly wholly wholly ly from the uplands and so enamored did he become of wild fowling that he even gunned duck In a Neither horseback riding nor athletics ath athletics athletics appealed to President Harrison and ald aa as 3 fond as he was of the water he hec eared cared c nothing for swimming In this respect he was not unlike President Cleveland Ceveland From what tv hat has come corne down through the years In h written and spoken speech it seems that John Quincy Adams dams was the swimmer president having learned the art in some favorite swimming hole In Town River bay ba or somewhere near the place on the Fore river where bat battleships battleshIps battleships are ar now no constructed In his hi hiday day there was Wag but one man In Washington Wash Walh Washington ington who could outdo him as a na na tatar and that th t was Benjamin Frank Franklin Hi lin President Pres lent Adams dam had a favorite pool 1001 fi the Potomac near Georgetown where he used to swim and md being fond of walking he re would arise arle before dawn walk to Georgetown and enjoy a swim returning I to the White House H use in to time for an early earl breakfast I Another of the hunter executives was wasi I i President Arthur and nd he was also a aI I i killed angler usually a highline man II the sportsmen who went to the i I salmon rivers of the Quebec and New Brunsw Brunswick Ick provinces pr vinces for their sport port B Before fore perpetual close time was put ut on the game ame In Yellowstone park President President President dent Arthur spent happy hunting I days d 3 there with his friend General Phil Sheridan All 11 kinds of outdoor and Indoor sports caught the fancy of President Garfield Hunting was vas 3 his favorite diversion but hut if business or a close season on game precluded a quest of ot the big game jan jun jangles les or the bobwhite covers coers he could find a n full fuH measure of pleasure in the th grand stand at a baseball game con contemplating contemplating contemplating the rural scenes from the back of ot a good horse or r playing bil billiards billiards billiards with a partner who ho would not let him win Just because hp he h was president president dent Jefferson Munroe and Jackson Jacksonn were n re superb super horsemen and antI riding was ther thew chief outdoor enjoyment |