Evening star., 1924-10-18
R. c. McKIMMIE LEADS
GOLF FIELD IN FIGHT
FOR AMATEUR CROWN

With consistent rounds of rs and 7s,
tying the course record on his first
round. r. Cliff Mckimmie, champion
of the Middle Atlantic Golf Associa-
tion and winner two days ago Of the
Town and Country Club tournament,
yesterday led fed of a score Of the
best amateur golfers about Washing
ton over the first 3s holes of the 72-
hole competition for the District anna
teur championship. Mckimmie's score
OF 153 for the double circuit of the
Indian Spring Clubs course. where the
tournament is being played. was six
shots in front of the 159 total of Chris
]. Dunphy Of Columbia, the 1922 cham
pion, and 10 shots in front of the total
Of 163 amassed by Walter R Tucker
man of Chevy Chase, the defending
champion.
The feature Of the first day was the
score of "a made by the 17-year-old
Reginald Lotus Of Chevy Chase, who
scored SO in the morning round and
then. aided by an uncanny touch on the
putting green's. broke the course record
by a shot in the afternoon for a "A.
Lotus finished both mines in ragged
fashion, concluding the first nine by
finding pair of traps on the ninth
hole to get down in 5, where a 3 would
have given him the grand total of 33
out. AS 1t was. he was out in 35. and
then coming back his putter continued
in the same unbeatable streak up to
the long sixteenth. where the touch
forsook him. and, attempting to gobble
a birdie 4, he took s. A 4 al the short
seventeenth cost him another shot, and
then he took his only 3 putt green of
the round at the eighteenth for a s..
His card follows.
Out
Lotus 3 ; ) SIS
In
Par. 4-ss-3s
Ties With Mackenzie.
LOTUS and Roland R. Mackenzie of
Columbia, both coming stars of the
younger generation, were tied for
third place at the beginning of the
third round today with total score
of $50. Mackenzie scoring IS and 50,
while Karl F. kellerman, jr., another
youngster, had 1852, adding IS in the
afternoon to an 81 in the morning.
Mckimmies rs in the morning,
which gave him big jump on all the
the 6,600yard course yesterday, came
as a direct result of great putting.
He came to the ninth hole in the
morning with par for a 81 He got
a 35, getting two brides in success
sion. And after that, even though he
didn't play as good golf as on the first
nine, he had such a lead the rest
couldn't overcome it. Tuckerman
could not get his putter working with
the same touch of magic that Nc
kimmie and Lotus had and as re-
suit started the third round 10 shots
back of the leader-probably far too
many to pick up from the fast-flying
Mckimmie. Roland Mackenzie also
lost his putting touch, having no less
than a dozen three-putt greens dur
ing the day, and one on which he re-
Quired four puts to get down.
A summary of yesterdays scores
follows:
r. c. McKimme. Bannockburn. 75--7S-153:
c. J. Dunphy. Columbia, 77-S2-159: Roland
X. Mackenzie. Columbia. 7a-S2-16O Regi-
F; kellerman. tr., Coumbf. s.7s-ls2: Tom
Moore Indian SPRING S3-s0-163; Walter r.
Tuckerman. Chevy Chase. S3-So-16s: c. 4.
Fuller, Chevy Chase. S2-So-1e4: Guy NJ.
Standifer. Columbia, s6-7S-l64; George ].
voigt, Bannockburn. S2-S4-166; &. X. SpeeI-
man, Indian Spring. Ss-s5-173: G. 2. Orme.
Columbia, 90-s6-176: c. b. Hatch. Colum-
bia. s-91ae1s7; A. +. Prescott, Columbia,
withdrew-Ch.rles y -A.new, jr.. B.nnock-
ss-9I-179: G. E. Truett. Washington. 1922
s6-19s; w. R. Mccallum. Washington, 81
Mckimmie is playing with LOTUS today. while
Dunphy is playing with Fuller and Mackenzie
with Standifer.