Evening star., 1924-05-04

The seventeen -year-old scion of the
Mackenzie family. hitting as sweet
a ball from the tee as any competitor
in the tournament which ended yes
terday, and generally outplaying his
father around the green. caught him
at the eighth green, where the elder
Mackenzie had retained a lead of
one hole, winning the ninth and
tenth, gained a lead he never relin-
quished. Outhit from the tee, the
father needed all the skill he has
gained over years of golf experience
to stop RoIand's relentless game.
Where the youth got home with u
light iron the father used a stronger
club, and where the father was off
the course at times the youngster.
his great distance.
usually was straight.
Albert Makes Bid at 18th.
Three down at the fourteenth tee
Albert made a bid for victory at that
hole. winning with 3, when his
son missed an eight-foot putt for d
half. but the youngster, eighteen
years of age. hit a screamer off the
and nearly got home with
his second shot on the 446-yard hole.
Although Roland was stymied and
could not get a f. he ended the
match on the sixteenth when he holed
an eight footer and watched his
fathers six foot try for a half slide
crepancy in driving distance attained
was particularly noticeable at the
tenth and fifteenth, where the long
tee shots of the younger Mackenzie
placed him in an advantageous posi-
tion to go for the pin.
Roland won his way to the final
through a 4 to 3 victory over his
pal. James c. Davis. jr.. Of Columbia.
who established himself as one of
the longest hitters about Washington
Albert reached the ultimate round by
beating Z. p. Brooke of East Potomac
Park . and l.
Albert outhit his son the only time
in the match off the first tee ard
missed fifteen-foot putt for a 4,
halving the hole. He won the second
hole when the younger Mackenzie S
hooked tee shot ran down the hill to
the left and he pitched back over the
green. Roland. just off the edge of
the third green fn 2, after magnifi-
cent tee shot. missed a four-foot putt
and got only a half. Another missed
putt at the fourth by the son gave
Albert another half, when the father
played d splendid niblick shot from
behind the green and holed a six
footer. On this hole, 472 yards, Ro-
lands tee shot was so long. that he
was hole high with mashie second
shot.
Roland Squares 1t at Fifth.
The younger Mackenzie squared
the match at the fifth, however, hol-
ing a fifteen-foot putt for birdie
after his father, bunkered on his sec
ond shot, had holed one five feet
longer. Roland hashed up the sixth,
shanking his mashie shot to the right,
and going over with his third. the
father winning, to Z. They halved
the seventh hole in 5s, neither get
ting home in two shots. Roland
squared again at the eighth and
paved the way for his winning effort
with a magnificent full midiron that
brought up twenty feet beyond the
hole The elder Mackenzie was not
home in 2 and missed an eighteen
footer for a half. Roland's four-foot
putt for a was hit firmly and was
never in doubt. Both golfers were at
the left of the ninth green, and Ro-
land became / up when he holed a
three -footer, while his father missed
a six-footer across a slope.
Far outhit from the back tee, the
elder Mackenzie was trapped on his
second shot to the tenth, while the
son, short of the bunker in 2, Clipped
up dead and won the hole As. They
halved the eleventh in and Roland
again lost a chance to win another
hole when he missed four-footer at