MARKETPLACE ROUND-UP

     Citing "pockmarked putting greens," many country clubs are
considering banning metal spikes.  But golfers and golf-shoe
makers aren't happy.  Still, McNeil Engineering, one spiked and
cleated shoe maker in MA, "is rushing more turf-friendly shoes to
market" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9/30).... Ronald McDonald
Children's Charities announced it is dropping the Michael
Jordan/RMCC Classic, held in Chicago the past two summers,
because Jordan's baseball commitment will not allow him to
participate (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 9/30)....Anheuser-Busch begin
distribution Monday of its first "red beer," Red Wolf Lager (N.Y.
TIMES, 9/30).