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HOLLYWOOD GOLF
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brother. He holds the long-distance club-throwing record from a standing start. He is also the only golfer I have ever heard of who threw a club after missing a practice swing.
In the idiotic days of 1928 everybody in Hollywood seemed to be getting rich in the stock market, and everybody took up golf because he thought he had to practice up on how to loaf, since very soon nobody would ever have to work again. There were fellows playing golf then who have never again touched a club since that sad day in 1929 when they got margin calls as they walked off the eighteenth green.
One of the Hollywood institutions of those dizzy days was the Divot Diggers, a club whose members were devoted passionately to gambling away their money at golf and stud poker. Virtually every Hollywood personality belonged to the Divot Diggers. Every member was given a special nickname— one designed to be distasteful to its recipient. My name was "Froggy," which was mild in comparison with some of the names, such as "The Dago," "The Spook," and "The Wop."
I am sure I have had more nicknames than any man who ever lived. People call me "Duke," "Menjie," "Monjie," and "Dolph." In Culver I was always "Frenchie." In Cornell I was known as "Ade" or "Ad." During my early days in pictures my roommate Ned Hay called me "Joe." I have a few old friends who knew me when I used my middle name, and they often call me "Jean." But to all the members of the old Divot Diggers I am still known as "Froggy."
We used to meet at various clubs once a week, play a round of golf, eat dinner, and then play poker until daylight. During those poker sessions there was usually much ribbing about the golf games that had been played during the day. I was one of the worst golfers in the club. I think my handicap at that time was twenty-four. The only other member in my class was William K. Howard, director of the famous picture The Thundering Herd. Somebody got the idea that it would be very funny to needle us into a grudge match, so they began to work on us. I was in