- . . - - 1 rA VOL. XII, No. 5. SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS CINDERELLA THE COQUETTE Slipper Rush is Hovel Feature of Holly Inn Cotillion. Merry Widow aiiilfourWn-IIand Fig ures Also JEntertain .Partici pants and Onlookers. 0 CI ALLY The Holly Inn cotillion sets the season "going," an evening of merrymaking in keep ing with the spirit of the holidays, long to be re membered with pleasure; a significant prophesy for the more formal events which it inaugurates. Decorations of Christmas greens, holly and mistletoe, added to its charm, the effect heightened by use of streamers of green and crimson bunting, with the favor tables in spotless white and glistening tinsel, in refreshing contrast. The figures were selected largely with the idea of entertaining both participants and the company of on lookers who occupied every available seat in the hall, and they were eminently successful, novelty, variety and surprise adding to their interest. Among the most amusing of the innova tions was the "Cinderella" in which the left slippers of half the women were se cured and piled in the centre of the hall, the men at a signal, making a football rush for the possession of one, which meant a dance, the balance of the slip pers being taken out on the second half, and the struggle even more, desperate than at first; the "left overs" in each case, being forced to dance together much to their personal discomfiture and the keen enjoyment of others. The "Merry Widow" entertained the crowd with its novelty and provided vigorous exercise for the men who par ticipated, one of four men being selected by the "coquette" as they passed behind her and looked into a mirror which she held; the three "unfortunates" being re quired to follow their more successful rival about the hall as he danced, one carrying a parasol, the other a fan and the third a glass of water. There was also a needle threading and button sewing contest which emphasized that "man's work is from sun to sun, but women's work is never done", the strug gles of the contestants pitiful to behold ; the first to accomplish the feat winning a dance. The jig-saw puzzle craze man ifested itself in the matching of torn postal cards, and the familiar flag figure was introduced in three sets, two halves and the whole group being taken put, one young woman drawing a squeaking doll cavalier for a partner and one young man a colored doll baby. . The four-in-hand race, four young men ing, and the Paul Jones figure was intro duced in varied forms ; grand right and left, forward and back and circles; a "Follow the man from Cook's" skip com pleting the program. (?)CC?3 8 g ' . S. i :'V, 9 I .'1 - .... i -:i CAPT. R. li. PARROTT, WINNER QUALIFICATION TROPHY AND CONSOLATION. ' & & 9. go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go r3(3(&3(&3C$ driven by one young woman, and four young women driven by one young man, was exciting enough to meet the require ments of the most exacting, a mad race and one or two harmless tumbles result- The favors were appropriate to the oc casion, and the season, toy horns, accor dions, rattles, wind buzzers,'mechanical wood choppers and skeletons, bouton ( Concluded on page IV, SURPRISES AND KEEN PLAY Big Early Season Entry List in Annual Holiday Week Golf Tourney, R. II. Ctwaltnej of IV. C, Defeats II. EL Sproule of mass.. In Red Hot final for .President's Trophy. URPRISES and keen play characterized the annual Holiday Week Golf Tour nament, the final result' in nearly every division uncertain until the last hole was played, R. II. Gwaltney of the Esseeola Country Club, Wilmington, N. C, winning the President's, or first di vision cup, from 11. E. Sproule of the Royal Portrush Golf Club, Ireland, 2 up, in a match which kept a big gallery on tiptoe from the first hole to the last. The score was all even at the turn and the players were never more than a hole apart until the last putt was made, the score zigzagging back and forth, the North Carolina player gaining a final lead on the sixteenth, holding it with a halve on the seventeenth, and going down in five to six for his opponent on the home , green, a bad second which made the pit, losing an opportunity to tie the score for the Portrush golfer, the medal scores eighty-three and eighty-five respectively. The cards : GWALTNEY. Out-5 6 .4 5 3 4 6 4 441 In 5 4645563 5-4283 SPROULE. Out 6 4 4 4 3 5 6 3 5-40 In 44557473 64585 Another red hot match in the first di vision was between J. C. Parrish, Jr., of Shinnecock Hills, and Dr. G. J. McKee of Oakmont,thePittsburger starting home one down, winning four holes in order, halving the fourteenth and losing the last four holes and the match. Wilbur C. Johnson of the Canoe Brook Club, gave Mr. Sproule a good run in the . second round, holding his own coming home and losing the match on the short seven teenth. The defeat of'C. L. Becker of Woodland, by 11. M. Hamilton of Wyka gyl, 3 and 2, was a fast match, the New Yorker scoring eighty, but losing the afternoon round by five and four to Mr. Gwaltney, who in this match, appeared for the first time ay a possibility in the tournament. Capt. R. B. Parrott, U. S. A., of New Brunswick, N. J., captured Concluded on page 3)