Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-17
BUXT0N-M'KENz|E
GOLF FINAL TODAY
Philadelphia Meets Local
Player in Annual c. c. C.
Contest.

Cameron b. Buxton or Phaiaoelphla
will meet Albert r. Mckenzie in the
final round OF the annual spring golf
tournament of the Chevy Chase Club
this afternoon.
Buxton won from Charles H. Mackall
Of the Washington Golf and Country
Club by and 2. after the boy had held
the ex-champion for ten holes. Mackall
was up on Buxton at the NTH hole:
Mackall lost three straight holes after
the tenth through bad tee shots.
Mckenzie was down all the way to
Lee L. Harlan Of Columbia, but won
on the eighteenth green.
In the second flight ]. H. De Sibour
of Chevy Chase will play E. l.. Bart
lett Of Baltimore. The finals in the
first flight started at o'clock.
Results in Two Rounds.
Little of a surprising nature in the
way of upsets cropped out in the
first and second rounds of match play
yesterday. Although Hale's appar-
emily easy defeat by Tuckerman may
have been classed as An upset, 1t
view of the fact that Hale has not
been playing at all well through the
tournament and has consistently
shown lack of practice.
Tuckerman. who played with steel
shafted clubs. was putting far too
and Hale's proneness to lift his head
while playing his short chip shots
probably cost him a hole or two.
Buttons defeat Of Tuckerman.
while 1t was not thought 1t would be
SO decisive, was also not unlocked
"a in the morning with Craig Morton
of Baltimore and started entirely too
strong for Tuckerman. Buxton prob
ably had the most remarkable start
ever made on the Chevy Chase
course. He ran down a good putt on
the first hole for a 8, got . par four
on the second. another four on the
third and pitched his ball up against
the hole on the short fourth. running
down the putt for q to become
3 up on the Chevy Chase player.
After this start Buxton was never
in danger and finished the match at
were played out and Buxton was
around in an approximate 70, giving
him a on the short tenth, where he
was in the bunker on his second shot.
Good Golf by Youthful Player.
The big surprise Of the tournament
cropped out in the top bracket s,lH Of Of
Mackali. a member OF the washing
ton Golf and Country Club, who quail
Ned with a score Of 81. won his morn
ing match from T. c. De Rosse' of
Baltimore on tho eighteenth hole and
came back in the afternoon to defeat
George T. Cunningham of Bannock-
burn, by Q and 1. The boy was play
ing exceptionally good golf and did
not appear a bit bothered by the fact
that in his first big. tournament he
qualified in the first sixteen and was
playing two of the best men in the
tournament. He Just went out and
beat them with good golf. In the att
ernoon against Cunningham he was
three down at the tenth hole and
match on the seventeenth green.
Every one who saw him play. yester-
day predicted brilliant golf future
for the youngBter.
John w. Brawner won a twenty
two hole match from Walter R. NC.
Callum In the morning and then lost
a nineteen hole match to Lee L. Har-
ban in the afternoon. John II. Clapp.
after winning a twenty-hole match
from George P. James in the morning,
lost to Albert r. Mckenzie OF Column
bia in the afternoon, by and z.