The Washington times., 1923-12-26

ROAA4OEca BOIl0 more. T00r(
was the final game between the
Aioysius and Yankees for the cit,
basketball championship; Willie
Hoppe clicking off $50 at 1s.2 from
sAe break; the zev-Papyrus tableau
Then came to mind Maurice
O'Neill winning the city municipal
tennis championship after defeat
seemed inevitable: Harry Krausl
making . double and counting TWEEN
ty-nine for the box: Granville GUIDE
taking the measure of Garrett Gil
more.
This was not all. We orbed q
spill at Bowie in which the skate
We had our pair Of megs on was
running in the ruck and won when
the three leaders fell; we saw Babe
Ruth pole one over the fence al
Georgia avenue and win the ball
game.
But, these were as nothing COM
pared to the one we experienced
cut 1t the Chevy Chase Club one
day last Dune. It was the after
noon Of the final round Of the
Middle Atlantic golf champion.
chip. 1t wasn't one thrill. 1t was
Q succession Of thrills.
The veteran Albert r. Mackenzie
and his seventeen-year-old son.
Roland, had driven. zmashied and
patted their way through to the
final round. There have been few
instances on record where father
and son have met in the final
round of q championship Boosting
the proportions of the Middle Allan
tic.
But, that was exactly the situa-
ton when the semi final rounds
had been completed. Mackenzie, ST.,
had come through the upper
bracket Of the first sixteen un.
scathed, while Roland had disposed
Ct his opposition in the lower half.
Many there were who might have
had suspicion that there would
be q let-up on the part of one or
defeat his father or the father not
They perhaps did not know the
AEAcKenzies. Family ties do not
exist any stronger than they do
between Albert r.. Mackenzie
and his seVenteen-yeAr-Old young
0ter. They are moro as pals than
father and son.
Never was there Q more brilliant
or more bitterly contested golf match
played In this section. For seven.
teen holes the two battled 1t out.
They were but q couple Of strokes
above par. Going to the eighteenth
the father had Roland one down.
Both were on the eighteenth green
In two, with puts Of from thirty
70 thirty.fivs feet confronting them.
The father was the farthest away
He laid his approach putt to within
eighteen inches Of the cup and had
O sure par four.
With the elaboration and conf
dsTice Of a Hagen, Sarazen, Evans
Jones or Ouimet, that seventeen
Year.oid kid sighted the line of his
putt and then proceeded to drop tho
bali into the cup for q birdie three
squaring the match.
What could have been moro
0hr1fing than to see that putt
trieiElo into the cup. Other puts
e. q greater distance have been
nssde. but Il In highly improbable
that another will ever b made
wherein ft squared o match be-
tween o pakeF and his son a3 tina
end 81 o regulation match.
While We Joined In the WILD &C
claim for the youngster, we were
gtfI1 to have another thrill which
completely overshadowed the one
which we just experienced. Such II
GeIf.
DoEgedly, determined, those two
MacKenzies went to the nineteenth
tee. Both were down the fairwa1
with the essence and accuracy Of
Winchester. Both again were on IL
two. This time the youngster wal
the faFthest away.
He laid his approach 20 near thu
cup a par four was q certainty
His dad was q full twenty-five
feet away from the hole. Mac
Monzie senior, sighted that putt
He sighted It again. He took hi
stance. There was the crisp crack
o. putter meeting ball.
Two feet from the cup those ir
Hne with the putt-rea1ized that Il
was going dead for the hole. II
less time than 1t takes to tell those
who were on the side sensed thai
the bah was going to drop. And
drop II did.
What could have been a greater
ending than a son and his dad bat
Ting eighteen holes to q tie in the
final round Of the biggest Roli
event Of the year and then for tho
father by miraculous putt Il
emerge winner on the nineteenth
green.
That putt Of Albert MacKenzie'l
On the nineteenth green ending
tire match with his son was ouI
greatest thrill Try and beat IL, Il
you can.