Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1921, Page 62

SECTION—JUNE 26, 1921 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—ROTOGRAVURE One Summer Day in Potomac Park By International Film Serviee On the Potomac Park polo % 2 field has been held many a e . _ B spirited game. -The sport is o g - =g especially popular among Army e - K s officers in Washington. Cricket is a great game in the British Isles, but it has also won many devotees in Washington—and the Eng- i lishmen teach the American the really ' fine points of the game. Fishing from the sea wall. This makes an ideal fishing place for the angler—if the fish are biting—for he has a good seat, plenty of shade and drops his line into deep water. The American boy must have his base ball game. There are ten dia- monds in the Monument grounds, Ellipse and Potomac Park. On a real hot day the bathing beach is the most congested place in the capital. A fine, sandy beach adds to the pool's attractions. An authority says there are fewer golf balls lost in Potomac Park than on the courses of the country clubs of Washington. There is some luck in this, but it also speaks pretty well for golfing ability among Potomac Park players. q DY A 3 ¥ ooa v e - Uncle Sam provides twenty-eight tennis courts for the Washingtonians who “swing a wicked racket.” And every court contains two or more players almost every minute dur- ing daylight in summer. The bridle paths of Potomac Park offer untold pleasures to the man or woman whose pet pastime consists of mounting a horse and jogging through shady lanes. X e G = Almost everywhere one goes about Washington one sees Mr. or Mrs. Snapshooter. Frail craft that it is, the canoe has a popularity never enjoyed by the flat-bottomed row boat or the excqrsion steamer. “Snapshooting” has become a national or international outdoor pastime. Potomac Park, at The canoe, moonlight, hulu-hulu strains and the overhanging willows of Potomac Park form the foundation of many a all times, contains the largest collection of the genus snapshootium in existence. romance. E