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Show GOLF. George Holman made the necessary 85 score last week, and got his name placed with the moguls. mo-guls. It was a 43 and a 42, if I remember rightly, and nice clean golf all the way through. Peculiar Pecu-liar game, that of Holman's. Taking his scores day in and day out, his game is about as good as Is played over the local links. But he does not think so, and this lack of confidence seems to be his chief falling. The "out of bounds" rule is going to prove disastrous to many a score before the season is over. Half a dozen balls stopped on the wrong side of the fence guarding the course boundary near the fourth and fifth holes last Saturday and Sunday. The rule puts a premium on accurate driving and approaching. The fence guarding the far side of the third green is also perilously near, but a good drive for either the third or fourth should lay the ball near enough to make an over-approach over-approach a positive fault instead of a misfortune. &V &9 &fc The third hole is too easy, anyway. Once the tee bunker is passed, there is practically nothing to penalize bad play to the green. A wide trap bunker, running in a half circle, to penalize a topped or sliced approach, could be dug, say about fifteen yards, from the green. The scrub oak is sufficient penalty for a pulled ball. This trap bunker would make a really sporty hole out of what is now the easiest on the course. Ot course, there is no sense in spending a lot of money on a course that may be abandoned next year. Still, a golf season is a golf season, ana we will play around the course many times during this summer. Frank McGurrin is back, and tells wondrous tales of the joys of playing over a turf course in Michigan. Judging from the appearance of the clubs being be-ing used by the old guard, Mr. Leonard will have about eight thousand dollars worth of work the moment he unlocks his workshop. A. FOOZLER. ' How Charles Frohman got 'his real start" as a theatrical manager is thus told in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Incidentally some light is thrown on the early history of several other managers of prominence: Quite a collection of managers in the office A of the Grand the other evening indulged in the- I atrlcal reminiscences. In the party were E. D. Stair, a manager in the popular price field; Gus- tave Fi'ohman, who Is looking after the business I of William Faversham's tour; John Havlln, the S owner of halt a dozen theatres, and Managers 3 Harry Rainforth. jl Nearly all of them started in the business 1 about the same time. John Havlln began his 1 career as an assistant treasurer, while his part- 1 ner, Mr. Stair, drifted from the printer's case j to reporting and then to a theatrical position. Gus- j tave Frohman, perhaps the longest in harness, began his experience as the manager of a negro minstrel troupe, and Harry Raintorth grew up on j tne stage, his first start being as an actor. All j have climbed up to responsible positions land have amassed no small amount of this world's goods. Mr. Frohman told the story ot another busi- 'j ness partner of Stair, A. L. Wilbur, and how he got into the theatrical business. It was back in the early seventies, and Frohman was piloting the Callender Minstrels through the country. At Vicksburg, Miss., the idea of presenting a troupe of negro performers almost precipitated a riot. "i was on the door," said JUrohman, "and was having a siege of it when a little drummer I had met several times stepped up to me and Inquired ir i needed any help. Well, we got out of that scrape all right, but it left a warm spot in my heart tor the drug salesman who had offered to come to the rescue. That was A. U Wilbur, and when 1 met him again he told me he was anxious to invest in the theatrical business, as he had made and saved a snug little sum. My brother Charles was the advance agent tor the show and l was back with them. In those days it was not an easy lite, and many a time in traveling 1 had to sleep in the freight cars with the ebon-hued ebon-hued performers. The next season we got back )Vlj into New York with a little money and Charles '" began to branch out some, and the first money ng we operated on on any extensive scale was about Mm $i),000 that Wilbur put up for a share of the show, 'ihat was the real start of Charles Frohman's managerial career, and in a measure Wilbur was identified with it. He atterwaru drifted into the business on his own account and Jost his snug savings, but he persevered and deserves all of his subsequent success and fortune." & & t , Coming Through the Rye is hard work if you mix drinks the night before. But if you have some Idanha on ice and a little Bromo handy that is another story. Let us pre- j pare you for the next time you take foolish pow- ' ders. RIEGER & LINDLEY, "The Whiskey Merchants." |