Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19

he had apparently putted himself GU
Chris J. Dumphy of Columbia,
~as tied with Roland for second p
with a total of 254 for the 81 holes
ished in third place with 3l2.
IN. total of 500 made by young
Mackenzie, who is a last-year stu
dent at Western High School, is one
of the finest exhibitions of golf ever
shown by an amateur player about
Washington. his average for the four
rounds of the long and difficult In
dian Spring course being II and
fraction, against a nar of 70. During
all the four rounds the extreme back
tees were in use, although weather
conditions were perfect for low scor-
ing.
Tuckerman In Sixth.
Walter r. Tuckerman of Chevy
Chase and Burning Tree, who won last
Year at Chevy Chase, finished in sixth
place with total of 326, fourth place
going to Guy NJ. Standfer of Columbia
and fifth place to George j. Voigt of
Bannockburn.
The scores of the victor in the tour
nament were 7s, 50, "A and rs. His
total of 14S for the last day of play
IS the, best that ever has been re-
corded at Indian Spring and in pick
ing up five shots on Mckimmie in the
morning round yesterday he equaled
the new record for the course made
Friday by Reginald A. Lotus of
Chevy Chase with score of "A.
His victory in the District cham
pionship places Roland R. Mackenzie
fndisputably at the head of the anna
teur ranks in and near Washington,
and gives him his third tournament
Vlis year. for he won the Indian
Spring and Washington Golf and
Country Club invitation events ear
ll6r in the year.
His best showing. however, was
made in the national amateur cham
pionship. where he qualified well up
With the leaders after being the SEN
sation of the first medal round, and
then, down with 5 to go, against
George Won Elm, carried the runner
up to the thirty seventh hole.
Presenting the Columbia boy with
the medal emblematic of the District
championship. President Herbert T.
Shannon of the District of Columbia
Golf Association referred to the
plucky game Mackenzie had played
at Philadelphia, and said he hoped it
would not be long before he also won
the national tournament.
Mckimmie's Putting Weak.
Great credit is due R. Cliff, McKim-
mie, who played four rounds of the
rugged Indian Spring course under
80 and yet lost the championship by
a single stroke, for McKimmie has
played IS holes of golf for five
straight days, winning the Town and
Country Club tournament and leading
the best of the amateurs of the Dis
trict almost to the end.
Mckimmie lost his chance to annex
the championship when he took three
puts on two successive greens in the
last round, and then, with 5, 3, to
tie Mackenzie, missed an 8-foot putt
for a par 5 at the long Sixteenth,
which, had it dropped, would have
made a play-off mandatory.
Dunphys was but a shot back of
the new champion and shot in front
of Mckfmmie at the tenth tee on the
last round, but started the final nine
with string of four SIS, a ragged bit
Of golf which no amount of brilliance
on the part of the former title holder
could overcome.
Well out in front over the first
days play, Mckimmie still LED both
Mack enzie and Dunphy by twd shots
at the end of the fifty fourth hole,
the completion of the third round
with total of 232, against 234 for
each of the others.
The final round of the championship
furnished a struggle worth going
miles to see with three brilliant and
steady players all striving to win,
each with an equal chance, for no
other PLAYER was within many strokes
of the three5 leaders. Although they
were AL playing with other players
In the tourname they all took 5s
on the first hole, Dunphy missing a
short putt for and Mackenzie do
ing well to get S, for he lost a shot
-1,A h. T.
tree and had to play out to the side.
McKimmie picked up a shot on both
Dunphy and Mackenzie at the second,
getting down in 4, where Dunphy
and Mackenzie had both failed to get
dead in three shots on this par hole.
Mackenzie Gains.
But the Middle Atlantic champion
dropped two shots to Mackenzie and
one to Dunphy at the third, where a
hooked second shot and three puts
cost him a 6. Three puts again at
the fourth cost him two more shots to
the others, but he got at the fifth,
where Dunphy took s.
SO they went to the turn with Mac
Kenzie leading the procession, out in
So, two shots in front of McKimmie
and one shot ahead Of Dunphy. And
where Roland started back by playing
exactly par. going over par at the
tenth and holing a birdie at the
thirteenth. Dunphy piled up four IS
in y row. putting him too far back to
win.
And Mcklmmie, with that bad out
nine of AZ behind him, started back
as If he were to go we'll above 80
over the final round. with S, 4, S.
He laid a niblick shot stony at the
thirteenth for birdie g. then holed
chip shot out of a bunker at the
short fourteenth for another birdie,
securing a birdie 4 at the long fif-
teenth.
In the meantime Roland Mac
Kenzie, even though he piled up a
at the fifteenth, had finished the
last three holes in par figures. holing
four-foot putt at the last hole for
,75 and a total of 309.
And when Dunphy took a IS at the
fifteenth, He needed two brides and
a par to tie-althogether too much
to hope for That left Cliff McKim-
mie six holes back of Roland, the lone
survivor, with a chance. And he
went to the 530-yard sixteenth with
par to tie Roland. Hitting a tre-
mendous tes shot at the long hdle,
slope leading to the green, from
where he might have secured birdie
4, but hooked 1t into the rough. play
ing from the rough into a bunker
He shipped out and left himself too
long a putt to hole. Then he needed
q birdie and par to tie He spanked
q high mldiron SHOT just to the right
OF the pin at the seventeenth, and
although he gave his putt - chance,
It <failed to drop for a 2.
LonE Pstt Just Misses.
- sl . = Is g.
Then he. had to get a birdie at
she eaxftesnth to tie. long tee shot