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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09
REIFr is II; GETS $4,000 A YEAR.

The jockey sensations OF the year
seem TO be "SSeets" Martin and little
Johnny Reifr Both are now riding ir
England and have ably kept up the
reputation for skill OF American Jock
eys established by TOD" sloane. Mar
tin has been unusually successful aud is
probably the foremost rider now on the
turf In the matter of skill and good
judgment, Willie Martin is generally
recognized as a top notcher, but he is
little too heavy TO have the oppor-
tunities given his lighter contempora-
rics. "Skeets" Martin made "A remark
able record on the Pacific coast last
winter. winning something like "A per
cent of his mounts. He hen went east
10 ride for Gideon e. Daily, but for some
reason or another they became dissat-
isfied with him and released him from
his contract. wheroupon he sailed for
England, and has been winning straight
along over there.
Little Johnny Ren is remarkable be-
cause he is such a diininutive chap. lie
caught the English crowd from the
start, became the pet of the lady
patrons of racing and made a big hit
with the Prince of Wales. His elder
brother, Lester. Is also riding in Eng
land, and has done fairly we'll The
Reilt boys are natives of Wichita. Kan.
where their parents live. Johnny can
ride at 60 pounds and is IA years OF age.
Lester. the elder brother. is very
smart chap and is a partner i'm the
racing firm of Duke & Wishard. for
which his younger brother rides. John
NY, the little fellow, receives n salary
of $4,000 a year Lester is riding for
Richard Croker He is said 10 bs
wealthy, not only having made great
deal OF money on the turf. but having
been very successful in oil well specula-
tion in Ohio.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09
TWO TIGER STORIES.

The latest use 10 which bicycles
have been applied is tiger hunting 4
paper published in British India gives
an account OF this startling innovation.
pig, IL appears. was carried away by
a tiger from a coffee estate at Castle
wood, I'm the state of Johore. THE news
having been sent TO Johore." runs the
report, the sultan's trackers were out
on bicycles by midday and located the
tiger i'm some low shrub within half a
mile OF the shed. The sultan himself
rode out at O'Clock, and, after short
beat of half an hour. large tiger was
driven out of the shrub and fell TO
one well placed shot by the sultan
through the tigers forhead"
one of the London Globes cor
respondents in India assumes the re-
sponsibility for the following story:
Two sportsmen who were after a
wounded tiger managed To get separat-
ed, and at the moment when they were
some distance apart Stripes made his
appearance and bore down upon one
of them. Ping went the rifle, but the
tiger came on. Ping again, and with
blood Rowing, the beast sprang forward
with Jaws apart. The sportsman saw
his one chance; he held the rife side
ways and horizontally 10 the growing
beast, and in second the huge teeth
were firmly locked in the barrels. Then
did that cool headed man calmly hold
the tiger like n dog at the end Of a
string till his friend arrived ana dis
patched it,"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09

only United States players who did not
score for their side last year
In a recent article i'm a golf magazine
a young woman, who is very evidently
an EngliSh woman. although the story
appears in an American publication,
tries to answer the question, why DO
Women Play Golf? Among the many
reasons why the weaker sex INDUCES
in the great game she classes the fol-
lowing four as the most important: %
4 desire 10 be in the fashion; (2) idle
ness CD pot hunting; (D real and
innate love OF sport.
Now. OF course, there may be some of
the first three classes who yearly enter
in W0men's golf championship tourna-
ments, but ii must be admitted that
most of them really belong to the
fourth division. Although our women
golfers, except a very few, have not
attained 10 a degree of skill that is
above the average. yet IL is a fact that
the majority Of those who take part IN
the annual championships practice
diligently for the event and evince
an amount of interest in the whole af-
fair that can only be engendered by
real and innate love of the game.
The preliminary details have already
been completed in anticipation of the
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09
BALLROOM SCENE IN BECKY SHARP"

natured but Disconnected old papa.
over her papa she weeps for one entire
night. She is very miserable without her
husband. Her husband. too, is very
miserable without her. Then Mrs. Par
bury learns that the industrious and
practical young lady is not the least in
love with her poor husband and gem
erously relents. Parbury hears Of the
photo hiSsfnS sCCuCI realizes the at
surdity OF the whole thing and takes his
wife back To his home. Chastened by
the trials through which she has pass
ed, the once fearful and selfish young
wife learns the nobility and olessedness
OF self abnegation and the two start
life over again. Miss Woodward yields
To the wooing OF her real lover, young
man OF the world who delights TO pose
as cynic, and when,the curtain goes
down IL falls on a gentle little play
that is filed with quiet philosophy and
bright observations and is entitled TO
the honor Of being a pure comedy in the
highest sense of the word. OF such
comedies as "The Tyranny OF Tears"
New York cannot have too many.
ARTHUR j. STRINGER.
New York
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09

After that she suggests learning Tho
half swing with the Wooden club and
thcn advises the novice 90 30 hack 10
the cleck and try the full swlnt. xrsl-
ually working up to the driver
MISS Hezlett, strange 20 say. han
never received any profcssienal teach
ing, and declares that whatever sue
cess she has obtained ~ due to- close
observation OF the styles CT noted
golfers and TO the hard work she has
done 20 accomplish certain strokes. She
believes II Is better 10 bcCOme nrac-
tlcaily perfect IN some one stroke lhaa
to be only half proficient IN many.
During the week following the wo-
mems tournament the scene OF golf in-
terest VIII be transferred 10 tho Garden
city links on Long Island. whore the
intercollegiate Golf association win
hold it's annual tournament The In
tercolloS!ate association includes IIar-
NTfd Princeton, Yale. Columbia ana
University Of Pcnnss lvania. Last far
Harvard won the team championship.
but her players this year are entirely
new men. She loaes w Bayard Cut
TING, Jr., James r.. Curtis and Joseph III.
Choato. Jr.. three OF the strongest MAY
ers IN the college ranks. Gardner, Hub
bard and George G. Clark. Jr.. of last
years team, are still in college. ard
some promising players may be dug out
OF the freshman class. The Yale team
has been considerably weakened also
through the loss OF Smith and Reid. In
Barnes. Havemcyer and Dwight tho
blue possesses three capital players.
however.
Last season was q Harvard year In
almost every line OF sport. whereas
Yale nearly every time met defeat.
She met the Cantabs, so that IL will be
interesting to note the result OF the
first clash in the new college year OF the
rival institutions.
Columbia, Pennsylvania and Prince
ton have strong teams and, taking into
consideration the strength of all the
teams this fall. Il is really anybody's
championship in the intercollegiate
tournament.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09

forthcoming women's championship 10
be decided on the links OF the Philadel-
phia Country club on oct. 10. II, 12. i3
ana H. The following committee has
charge OF all the numerous details OF
the tournament: George -. Fowle,
chairman; $. Heide Morris. z. IL. Wood,
~. H. blspham, IL. II. Johnson and VIII
nam M McCawley, secretary. With
such competent men in charge IL is safe
TO predict that everything will be done
10 make this important event a sue
cess In every particular.
meanwhile the PHILADELPHIA Country
clup mas not been idle in other re-
speS's' ana intending competitors from
ar paris OF the country VIII be glad TO
hhoW that men have been hard at work
on ,"e course during the greater part
u 'ne Se"soh attempting 90 make IL as
soou aS posslble during the week ot
play objectionable features have been
reipoNeu' untl now tho Bala course
presents as true test OF golf as can be
louhu on any course in the vicinity of
the Quaker city.
me playing distance over the Bala
INKS rs 1900 yards, but IL has been
ueclueu 10 shorten this a triflc for the
.",ii"s "onleh tournament The first
hoie, as ordinarily placed requires a
carry OF 100 yards from the tee i'm order
10 avoid wide chasm surrounded by
Formidable looking bowlders. This was
considered too severe "A test on the
nerves and skill OF the fair ones. 40
during the tournament the tee will be
removed 10 the other side OF the hazard.
From mat point an ideal start can bc
made Ample accommodation by this
change Is also offered to the spectators.
who form such a pleasant feature o1
these tournaments They will be able
to take in almost the entire course from
their point OF vantage. Following are
the distances OF the holes as they win
be laid out for the women's champion
ship.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09

THREE golf tournaments Of natIon.
al Importance are scheduled 20
i take place during October, so that
golfers Will have plenty 10 occupy their
minds I'm the next few weeks.
on oct. Z the international match
between the United States and Canada
VIII take place; from oct 10 to "A the
Women's championship. while the inter
collegiate annual tournament will be
held during the week of oct. l6.
The International match will be the
second tournament between teams rep
resenting this country and Canada!s the
first one having been held in Canada
last October at the close OF the Domin-
ion championships, The United States
won by p holes to Z, and our golfers
have great hopes Of again winning es-
pecially as ii will be on home territory
Ten men are chosen by the governing
associations Of each country 90 uphold
the honor of their land. The coming
match VIII be held on the grounds OF
the Morris County club at Morristown,
n. j. III. M. Hartman, the present
amateur champion. was one OF the
players on the international team last
fall, and he will again be one Of the
players on the United States team.
Hartman, Coats and Hubbard were the
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09
FRIEND OF CYCLISTS.

IN western Australia the camel is in,
deed the cyclists friend and quite With
cut effort or intention on its part. As
ls well known. horses entirely object 10
,lmelS and will not pass them on the
road. The consequence Of this Is that
through the bush the camels make their
own paths. and these. pressed out by
tho animals large. fiat feet as they fol-
low one another in single file, are beat
en- hard and smooth, so that they make
the most perfect cycle tracks II Is possi-
bic TO have. This is an immense boon
to lovers Of the wheel in tho neighbor-
hood cf Kalgoorlic. where postmen.
miners, newspaper boys and many other
people use cycles immensely FOR horses
are too dear for anything like general
.Iup
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09

The question as TO whether Miss Bea-
triX Hoyt will win the championship for
the fourth successive time this year is
being frequently asked just at present.
The one player who has beaten Miss
Hoyt i'm private has never taken part
i'm the womens championships. She is
Mrs. w. Butler Duncan. Mrs. Duncan
is generally regarded as a longer driver
and better putter than the champion.
while Miss HOyt is conceded 10 be- more
expert with the iron clubs. Last win
ter Mrs. Duncan played at Pau and
Cannes from scratch In the womens
competitions and won many prizes.
Mrs Duncan has fairly beaten Miss
Nina Sargent of Manchester by the
Sea. who is generally regarded as Miss
Hoyt's most dangerous rival among
American women. a meeting between
Miss Hoyt and Mrs. Duncan would
greatly add 10 the interest Of the wo-
mems championships.
At former championship tournaments
there has been little else on the pro-
gramme arranged for the week except
the usual struggle for the much coveted
trophy At the coming event. however,
the committee intend that there shall
be lively time for all competitors,
even those who are SO unfortunate as
TO meet defeat early in the game. The
Philadelphia Country club has decided
10 offer a handsome cup for those who
finish among the first lG in the pre-
liminary round. This trophy will be
competed for at match play by those
eligible. In addition TO this there will
be approaching, putting and driving
competitions and a mixed foursome
tournament, in which contest the wo-
men will be allowed 10 choose their
own partners from the club member !
ship
Miss Hezlett, the Irish girl OF Is who
won the recent women's golf champion
ship Of Great Britain not long ago,
spoke entertainingly as 20 her opinion
concerning the proper way to learn 20
play golf. and her advice may be OF !
use TO many a beginner. she advocates |
the novice securing the services OF a |
professional If possible, or the next best |
thing 10 watch carefully the actions OF
good players. She would then have the
beginner commence with an iron.
cleek for instance. practicing the half
swing. letting the full swing alone
until the shorter stroke is mastered.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09

Comparisons may be odious, but they
are inevitable. Ten squares up Broad
way from where Mrs. Fiske is showing
the world the subtle wickedness of Miss
Rebecca Sharp. Mr.. John Drew is play
Ing in that delightful comedy of man.
ners by Haddon Chambers. The Tyr
amy of Tears" Going from one TO
the other is like stepping out OF the dis
secting room into picture gallery.
There is a fascination in beholding
the glands and tendons and arteries of
an immoral character theatrically laid
bare by such a skillful knife as that
welded by Mrs. Fiske but one can get
tired of pathology and psychomaclry
and long for little good, wholesome
fresh air.
Such freshness one can find in "The
Tyranny of Tears" 1t is a combina-
tion of refined art and gently playful
humor well mortared together by kind
ness and common sense. The story is
slender, yet felicitous. while that quiet
art and piquant good nature which
John Drew hides under bland and re-
poseful manner are Irresistible.
The Tyranny OF Tears" is perfectly
named. A young London author named
Parbury has been married for FIVE years
To "a wire Whom nc loves sincerely and
perhaps too generously. His wife loves
him But she is a sensitive creature
given to Jealousy and prone to burst
into tears on the slightest provocation
In fact. she so loves her dear husband
that she always wants to be with him
She even dotes on hearing him dictate
an article. She invades his study. She
interrupts his work 10 be kissed. She
drives away the old friends who used
To- take up his time. She wants Il all.
She makes him give up his club and is
even Jealous OF Miss Woodward. the
young authors secretary. Parbury
generous loving. good natured. whimsi-
cal and easy going gives iva TO this gen
tie tyrant inch by inch. until at the end.
OF his five years OF married life he finds
himself the absolute slave OF a tearfui
but none the less tyrannical wife. Miss
Woodward, the secretary. pites poor
Parbury and when. i'm a motherly and
purely platonic sort OF way, she kisses
Parbury's photograph and is discovered
doing SO by that gentlemans wife. the
owner or both husband and photograph
at once suspects the worst.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09

Becky Sharp" is n sort OF theatrical
pousse cafe. Instead of being one well
blended, coherent, organic drama of
four acts IL is conGlomeration OF four
distinct and detached parts. each one
Of which swims Independently about in
It's own color like the graduated liduids
I'm that Variously colored drink OF the
blase bouleyardier. Without ones
Thackeray TO fall back on. the spectator
at the Fifth Avenue theater would be
left hopelessly at sea with ones
Thackcray i'm mind one Is left I'm n
slough OF despond. Ii leaves the spec-
tator between the devil and the deep
sea. for since a novel OF such complex
fly and wealth OF incident as Vanity
Fair" could not all be crowded into n
drama the Adapter has taken really
only the Lord Steyne incident as the
backbone OF his plot. The rest OF the
drama story is told I'm narrative. end
less. breathless. tedious narrative.
through which Mrs. Fiske galloped i'm "A
low voiced monotone audible probably
20 the first three rows OF orchestra
chairs. but not much beyond. In fact.
Mrs. Fiske has an affection for the low
voiced monotone. Duse does it, so Il
must be quite right. II is a sign OF re-
serve force. IL rs naturalistic. But.
like most good things. II can be over
done Mrs Fiske ovcrdocs it. 10 Is not
until the supreme third act the meet
ing OF Rawdou Crawley and Lord
Steyne that she rises to anything like
her real power ang makes one forget
FOR the moment her physical disquali-
Gcatious for such role as the baleful |
eyed little Becky Who. by The way. !
would never have been permitted by |
Thackeray to sit in a glare of PINK light I
and scntimentulize. moan aud whine I
over her past sins. th" hardness /
of the world and the wickodnnss Of her |
own ways And Just why IN entire act |
should De given over to presenting the
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09

N Charles Cottu. the son OF Baron
Cottu' has ridden from Vienna to Paris
lh ~. days ana 10 hours ON his marc.
ltlsi Lass This Is "a record. the best
previous time being that OF Hun
sdIl"n oihcer. Lieutenant Zubowltz
"h" accomplished The Journey lu it
Jays AMI hours. Both thc rider and
hs mare iuished in rxccllen, condition
considering the sWlltusss or The four
n'i' quite crowd or enthusiast.
welcomed thr horsoman on his arrival
aud numbers of cyclists on their stegds
Of steel went % meet him.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09

IT does not necessarily follow that
such a condition OF affairs argues that
the modern playwright lacks ideas and
imagination. 1t has, however its own
particular significance since the gulf
that must ever separate the artist from
the mere artisan, the adapter from the
creator. is a wide one.
But whether we like II or not. the
modern manager has ordained that the
entrance to the stage must be by way
OF the publishers office The present
season accordingly, fairly bristles with
dramatized novels. Among the different
stories which already have been or
shortly are to be presented TO New
York audiences in this popular form OF
dramatic ragout are such books as
when Knighthood Was In Flower"
sherlock Holiness" "Ben-Hur," ~
Tale of Two Cities" "Sapho." "Tbe
children Of the Ghetto" Beside the
Bonnie Brer Bush. The Gadny," ana
last but one of the most important OF
all, Vanity Fair"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09

Maurice Barrymore as Rawdon'was
by no means convincing i'm part that
would have proved an I'll Dorado to an
actor OF talent, since, in fact, it was the
latest part i'm the play. Tyrone Pow
er as the Marquis of Steyne was as eX-
cellent as Wilfrid North was inadequate
In the part OF the good hearted old
Dobbin, whom he converted into an
asinine dolt. Robert Ferguson as Sir
Pitt Crawley did admirable work, and
the same might be said of William Ow-
ems Jos Sedley, though it could not
possibly apply TO Ienaide Williams in
depreciation OF the role OF Amelia.
The play, on the whole. might be call
ed a magnificent failure. for. unsats-
factory as what one might call it's ar
tistic and spiritual presentation prov
ed to he, the mechanical perfection with
which IL was put forward was brilliant
IN the extreme. In view OF this
fact and remembering the great fol-
lowing which the sincerity and un-
earnestness of Mrs.
f1ske has won for the impersonator of
Rebecca, there will even be certain per-
sons who will claim that Becky Sharp"
Is a great play. But their names will
not be legion.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09

She dismisses Miss Woodward on the
spot Miss Woodward declines 60 be
dismissed by any one but Parbury him
self. Mrs. Parbury OF course. regards
that ms very small point. and al once
marches I'm her surprised husband and
asks him 90 dismiss his secretary Now
ParbuIy knows Miss Woodward is
worth her weight in gold TO him as an
assistant. and so. Co The CONSERVATION
" his better half ratly refuses tv dis
charge the lady until he Is shown nt
reason FOR SO doing Mrs. Parhurv.
Knowing how weak poor men an are.
dare not tell him her reasons. and. after
stormy scene. she herself leaves The
house aud goes home with her good
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09

The play founded on this last mem
toned novel is the current attraction
at the Fifth Avenue theater i'm this
city. where its original performance
by Mrs. Fiske and a particularly large
and illustrious company attracted a
great deal of attention.
The reasons for this were many. One
was that Mrs. Fiske had come TO he
looked on as Americas greatest actress.
Another was that many persons regard
Vanity Fair" as the worlds greatest
novel. still another source OF interest
was that Thackeray had always left the
real guilt and the eventual fate of the
little -blackieg- heroine OF his tale more
or less in doubt. and people were anx-
ious to soc just how Mrs. Fiske, through
Mr.. Langdon Mitchell. the adapter OF
the novel, would unite the gordian
knot.
But the stanchest supporter of Mrs.
Fiske must have trembled for her ar
tistic fate when he first beheld her as
Becky Sharp. The play. in the first
place. was inadequate, incoherent and
vapid.
To find the cause OF this one has not To
seek far. The spirit of the original work
or Thackeray. with all it's whimsical
humor. its incomparably delicate but
dett Characterization, and above all
us redeeming kindliness, showing like
sunlight patches through it's clouds OF
satire and cynicism. had been lost
IN the translation. With such work
dramatlZation meant EQUALIZATION, and
II Mr. Langdon Mitchell has failed he
may console himself with the reflection
that such failure was TO a degree in
eVitable. But even i'm the face of these
extenuating circumstances the adapter
OF Vanity Fair" will not readily be
forgiven for the liberties he has taken
with tho literary masterpiece of an au-
thor who is no longer on earth 10 guard
his own with that sacrcdness with
which a finished work OF art always
should be guarded.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09

ITO MAKE hare pie, said the old
cookbook, first catch your hare.
To make modern play, first get
your novel.
Time was when the dramatist was
ms own pathfinder. There was a day
when he scorned TO be the Lazarus who
gathered up the crumbs Of a bookmak-
ing Dives. When Willie the Swan trod
the boards OF the little Globe theater
on the Bankside and Ben Jonson held
forth at the Mermaid, IL was the pub.
Usher who went a-begging after the
stage manager. Productions were turn
ed into books and not books into pro-
auctions.
Nowadays all that Is changed. To-
day we behold passion to seize on sue
cessful novels. both old and new. and
after amazing emendations and trans
formations TO dish them ub before the
footlights TO a public that grows ever
more edacious for such dramatic It'd
DTS. The novel adapter does this with
The facility OF the Montmartre restau-
rateur who takes his Geld mutton and
by mysterious and unspeakable meth
ods converts IL into a rechauffe de
poulet.
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AFTER run Sonar WAS OVER.

They were two solGng greenhorns.
and, backed by fun loving friends. they
had been turned loose on beautifully
kept links TO play 30 as You please
match. VI was q spirited contcst-at
times almost combat-and marked by
strokes far more hizarrs to the eye
shan are my OF the Scotch golf terms
10 the ear. After the match the course
was cut up into hilloclSs and cups SC
badly as 10 suggest the scene of n n;n-
tcoric downpour in which q hundred
aery fragments had burieG thsmfclvcs
m the turf.
My N.Y. exclaimed the Scotch
creenkscpcr as he looked ~ tho, havo,
wrought. "Yon must ha' been a match
~ plovshures' p