Evening star., 1924-10-17
M'K|MM|E LEADS
AMATEUR GOLFERS
Finishes First Round With
75-Tuckerman, Defend
ing Title, Gets 80.

r. Cliff McKimmie of the Bannock-
burn Golf Club. who won the Town
and Country Club tournament yes
terday, led a score of players in ;he
first round of the District amateur
championship at the Indian Spring
Golf Club today, with a card of IS,
three strokes above par. Out in 50,
finishing the first nine with a pair of
brides. Mckimmie was back in 40
to lead c. J. Dunphy of Columbia
the 1922 champion, by two shots.
Dunphy missed a 3-foot putt for
four on the eighteenth hole. which
would have given him IS, but he
finished Il, one stroke ahead of Ro-
land r. Mackenzie of Columbia, who
had a. rs.
Walter r Tuckerman of Chevy
Chase, the defending champion. start
ed the second round this afternoon
8 shots back of McKimmie. Tuck
erman finished the morning round
with S3. Other scores made in the
first round follow:
George J. Voigt, Bannockburn, SO;
c. A. Fuller, Chevy Chase, So; Tom
Moore. Indian Spring. SO: X. F. Kel-
lerman, jr., Columbia, S4: Reginald
A. LOTUS, Chevy Chase, Sc; Guy NJ.
Standifer. Columbia, Sc; S. r. Speel-
man, Indian Spring, So; Gardner P.
Orme, Columbia, 80.
Field Below Normal.
Although the field is small. much
smaller than during the last two
years ago when the tournament was
held at Chevy Chase and Columbia
the leading amateur golfers of the
city, without exception, have entered
the annual golf championship of the
District Of Columbia. which started
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dian Spring Golf Club
With one of the longest courses
about the city for the scene of the
1924 championship, being played for
the title now held by Walter r. Tuck
erman of Chevy Chase and Burning
Tree. score Of $40 was expected to
finish well in the lead in the 72-hole
medal play competition which will
end tomorrow afternoon. Amateur
play events and seldom score as well
as do the professionals who play all
their Journeys over the long route.
In addition Indian Springs putting
green's, although true, are as keen as a
varsity halfback. and tales of extra
puts have been coming from the men
who have practiced over the course.
With the distances to carry on the
second shots at most of the holes at
Ahoioh hccH STc6HS Will prove
none too advantageous to the score
of amateurs who will battle for the
blue ribbon of local golfdom today and
tomorrow. for a long shot to a keen
green Is a rugged proposition for any
golfer to handle.
Young Star Playing.
Among the prominent entrants in
the tournament are Roland r. MacKen-
zie and c. j. Dunphy of Columbia. the
latter the 1922 champion and the
former the 17-year-old Western High
School student, who really was the
outstanding hero of the recent national
amateur championship.
Eight down with Is to go, Roland
Mackenzie carried George Won Elm.
who later reached the final round. to
the 37th green before succumbinR to
the Pacific Coast star Tuckerman.
the title-holder, is playing with C.
Ashmead Fuller. another Chevy Chase
star, while Guy M. Standifer, the 1921
champion. Is playing with w. r. Nc
Callum of the Washington Golf and
Country Club.
Thirty-six holes today and 81 holes
tomorrow, is the program for the
amateurs, with the player making the
lowest score for the four rounds of
the course the winner of the cham
pion sAfp