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Show Harding to Golf With Newspaper IVIen PRESIDENT HARDING has signified signi-fied Ids intention of participating in the newspaper golf tournament uext year. This means, among other things.that Washington correspondents undoubtedly will organize a permanent golf association. They already had planned one, and the President's announcement an-nouncement clinched it. The golfing skill among the Washington Wash-ington bureaus has a wide range. It runs from McCullum of the Star, who ls a plus 2 man and has done the Washington course in Its par of GS, to Capt. Leo R. Sack of the Cleveland Press, who went around recently In 180. But the newspaper men of Washington Wash-ington have gone simply crazy over golf. It is said that even the veteran Charles S. Albert of the New York World is endangering the furniture of his office with his mashie swings. It is seriously to be doubted whether President Harding could bear the tremendous tre-mendous responsibilities of his position without some such relaxation and exercise ex-ercise as this game supplies. Theodore Roosevelt was a noted athlete in several sev-eral lines, but in Washington ran to tennis. It is not known that he ever tried golf. Roosevelt was extremely democratic and played tennis with any. one who would come along, although his famous "Tennis Cabinet" was composed com-posed of an ambassador or two and minor mi-nor -government officials. William H. Taft was a great lover of golf and played more or less regularly with Senator Sen-ator Jonathan Boucne, Jr., although he was by no means exclusive. Mr. Wilson, Wil-son, when first he came to town, tried out all the courses and finally settled on that of the Washington Country club as his favorite. Mr. Harding is the most democratic of all the Presidents with respect to golf partners, and he is the first President Presi-dent to have played in a golf tournament tourna-ment while in office.- |