Evening star., 1924-05-10

mackenzie yesterday beat Dump
| down to the veteran.
And in the tournament was every
golfer of prominence about the city.
Ihere are no Ifs, ands or butts" this
time He waded through Tucker
man, Steyinson, Earl McAIeer and
then Dunphy in impressive fashion,
through the hardest part of the draw,
IN a tournament wherein all the lead
ing linksmen of the city had gather
or doubt last week, but today there
Is none. Roland Mackenzie has
reached the peak of amateur golf
about Washington.
The youngsters hardest match of
the tournament came yesterday
morning when Earl McAleer, a public
inks product, and a southpaw, who
used to be one of the finest sand
lot base ball pitchers about Wash
ington, carried Roland to the nine
MN whipped at the seventeenth. But
class told and Roland, after giving
McAieer half at the eighteenth,
stuck a mashie shot ten feet from
the pin at the nineteenth to win the
match. Dunphy, in the meantime,
had been having troubles of his own
with George J. Voigt, another pub
lie park golfer and the reigning
municipal champion. Dunphy finally
won on the last hole. where Voigt
outplays the Veteran Dunphy.
And then Roland went out in the
afternoon and proceeded to show
Dunphy, the master of the medium
iron, how to play a medium iron and
a mashie. The lad collected for him
self on his final lap around Indian
Spring four brides and an eagle.
marked, while ne watched Dunphy go
down to defeat, that sort of golf
would beat the best of them.
When the match ended on the
for rs. with three 6s scattered
through his card on the first nine.
One of his mashie shots from $50
yards nearly holed, while another to
ring up birdie at the eleventh left
him but three-foot putt The eagle
came at the second hole to square, by
virtue of a fine iron shot and a TWEEN
ty-foot putt He reached the twelfth
hole in two shots, the first time any
one has done it since Wednesday
morning, when the rain started. That
was really a birdie. He outdrove
and outputted Dunphy, forcing the
former District champion to play the
odd from every tee. But he didn I
outgame Dunphy. That can't be done.
for the Columbia veteran is a fighter
from every angle
Roland dropped the first hole when
his only apparent fault cropped out
hook on his long iron shots, which
in this case dropped his ball into a
real vengeance at the second, holing
a twenty-footer for an eagle 5. And
with Dunphy to the left of the green
at the third, Roland shanked a
mashie shot and got only a half,
Dunphy missing a four-foot putt to
win.
The first of a great series of iron
shots came at the fourth where the
lads long mashie ended but a foot
and a half from the pin. and he won
around the green cost him a half at
the fifth, for he took three puts
from position inside Dunphy and the
match was square.
The Real Thrill of Match.
The stage was all set then at the
sixth for the real thrill of the match.
Dunphy, with the honor, put his
mashie shot thirty-five feet to the right
of the pin, while Mackenzie was on
the line twenty feet short. The VET,
eran sank his 35-footer and the KID
stepped up and ran his putt down
Two brides. At the seventh 1t De-
came Dunphy's turn to grow care
less, for the youngster topped ms
tee shot into the water hazZaro ano
vet GOT A half in s, for Dunphy play
cd his pitch carelesSly and then tooh
2 to get down from the edge OF the
D
green. .ha .iebtb
where Roland hooked his secono snot
o,,t of bounds and lost the hole, SO.
Ten feet from the hole off the tee
Roland missed the putt at the nintn
and turned l down. Then he started
a series of great shots which orousns
him back from the rim or de1eat anu
won for him his second tourney ~
a fortnight. He holed Twenty-Five
footar for at the tenth. where
Dunphy.s chip was short and the
match was square. Then Roland nit
another mashie shot up aSainsI tne
min at the eleventh to win ana pc
come l up, and put another hols IN
the bag when he got home IN at
thn twe1fth. well inside Dunphy's
They halved the thirteenth, al
though Roland's putt for a MT tne
cup and they halved the fourteehth
in par s..
Dunphy had to sink six footer
for a half in 5 at the fifteenth, and
down with to 50, got scratcny
half at the sixteenth, where MS Weak
ly hit putt wabbled on the cage OF
the cup and finally dropped. Inc Vee.
The seventeenth where he was dormle
down and the match was over, even
though Roland took three puts from
the edge of the green, Dunphy Hiss
ing a thirty footer for 5.
The cards:
Mackenzie out $ 3 So
Dunphy out A J@
Mackenzie in -. A 4-S
Dunphy In .......S 4 3 so
Splendid prizes given by the club
were presented to the winners by DR..
]. r. De Farges, chairman of the golf
committee, and Mrs. Tom Moore, vice
president of the club.
The Summaries.
First flight, semi mifnal-R. r. Mackenzie,
Col defeated Earl McA1eer, E. p, up in
10 holes; G. J. Dunphy, Col, defeated G. J.
Voipht E. p. l up Final-MacKenzie de-
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