Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-18
GOLF TOURNAMENT
IS WON BY BUXTON
Chevy Chase Clubs Annual
Event Results in PhiIadeI-
phla Mans Victory.
MACKENZIE is RUNNER-UP
MACKENZIE is RUNNER-UP
BY W. r. McCALLUM.

Playing the most brilliant golf tina,
has been seen about Washington in
a tournament final for several years.
Cameron b. Buxton of the Huntingdon
Valley Club of Philadelphia yesterday
afternoon won the annual spring golf
tournament given by the Chevy Chase
Club. beating Albert r. Mackenzie OF
the Columbia Country Club by and l.
The margin of victory is not the
measure of discrepancy between the
games of the two men, for Mackenzie,s
game was just Off enough TO let
Buxton beat him by shot on most
|of the holes.
The winner was in a happy golflng
mood yesterday. Every shot was
coming off as he wished and his put
ting was steadiness itself On the
other hand. Mackenzie's putting was
wretched and his iron shots not up
to his usual steady standard But in
All obability had the Columbia man
been playing his best game, he could
not have hoped to cope with the bril-
liant article of golf put up by the
former champion of Philadelphia.
Buxton was right That is the
story of the match in a nutshell. and
when he is right few men in the
country can beat him. Out in 81. with
conceded putt less than four feet
on the third hole of where he stuck
his long mashie second shot right
against the pin. he narrowly missed
n two on the short tenth and had n
probable ) on the eleventh after going
| in the ditch with his brassie second.
when Mackenzie picked up his ball.
conceding him the hole and the match.
huxtons chances for shattering the
course record were spoiled. however.
| when he picked up his ball on the
third hole, after having the hole won
Winner Steady and Brilliant.
The winners game was as steady
as it was brilliant. Combined with
long hitting from the tee, he showed
Yesterday mashie shot which was
going exceptionally well, on two oc-
casions laying his ball dead to the
hole from distance of $50 yards.
This, combined with the steadiness
and the distance Buxton obtained
from the tee. was too much for
Mackenzie and the match ended on
the eleventh. when, seven down and
elght to play, the latter topped his
third shot into the ditch guarding
the green. dropped out and again
topped into the ditch, concedine
eiO hOiC anu the match,
The only flaw in the Philadelphian's
Otherwise perfect game was at the
short fourth hole, where he over
played his pitch to the edge of the
green and took three puts Macken-
zfe. however. was trapped from the
tee. and when he got on the green
took three puts, too, SO Buxton also
won this hole.
Buxton. with the honor from the
first tee, sent a screamer down the
ialrway and Mackenzie hit a good ball
just a few yards behind Buxton. The
latter played a high mashie second to
within twenty feet of the pin and
on the edge of the green. farthest
away from the hole. He putted up to
within two feet and Buxton nearly
n oiled; his approach putt. Mackenzie
Buxton hooked his second shot into
the bunker guarding the north side
or the seventeenth fairway, driving
from the secoid tee. and his opponent
nit fine bali down the middle of the
course. The Philadelphian's ball
rolled over the cop of the bunker and
came to rest in the sand at the bot
tom OF the hazard in such good lie
that he used a midiron and almost
reached the green Mackenzie shank
ed his iron second shot and was in
the rough grass to the right of ne
green. with q pit between his ball and
the green. He pitched over twenty
third. played high to carry. over the
first plateau on the green, hi. the lip
of the cup and barely stayed out
Mackenzie trimmed the cup for half
and Buxton won the hole, As, put
ting him 2 up.
Long Drive on Third Hole.
Cam as his friends call the pop
ular Philadelphia player, hit one of
his longest balls on the third hole.
to be just short of the cross bunker
to the left side of the fairway, and
Mackenzie skied his tee shot, Just
getting over the bunker in two Bux-
ton took out his mashie and hit a fine
pitch which carried to the green and
brought up about three feet to the
left of the pin. Mackenzie was barely
on the edge of the green in 3. and
although he nearly holed his run-up
approach shot, Buxton was lying dead
in 2. and the Columbia man con-
coded the hole. Buxton just pushed
his putt up to the lip of the cup aud
it stayed out, but there can be little
doubt that if he had had to make the
putt the ball would have been in the
hole for 3.
Buxton overplayed the short fourth
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