Evening star., 1925-09-03

OF Washington in the tournament, nc
yet good enough to whip Roland
Richard A. Jones, Ir., of West {
reflected glory. and yet not entirely
Roland not alone through the mistaB
through the ability to stick like
OF match play.
Five long puts went down for
Jones. None went down for Poland
SIX tee shots were missed by the
scion of the Mackenzie clan Jones
missed none, Roland took three puts
on two greens over the afternoon
route. Jones had no three putt greens
and five one-putt greens. That is
the reason Roland has joined the
gallery.
Where Roland had hoped to redeem
licking at Philadelphia in June at
he hands of Lauren Upson, the ruddy
youngster Jones has that task before
him today. for Upson won his way
into the second round by taking the
measure of the coClIy Jack Mackie,
jr. son Of the Inwood professional.
Played Poor Golf
Brilliant on Monday and Tuesday to
win the qualification round. putting
like one inspired. Roland descended
70 medioCrity Yesterday. The tee shot
hat had crashed out unerringly for
distance nigh onto 800 yards lacked
he snap and sting of the first two
days and the putter had lost the
magic of the medal rounds. Beaten
hv an inferior golfer, outputted and
outsteadied. Roland was great in de-
feat
Hes the finest man l ever played
with. The most pleasurable match l
ever had, with one of the great golf
erS of the country" That is the way
Dick Jones, himself only a youngster
Of 90, described the match in which
he beat Roland Mackenzie on the
eighteenth hole, winning by up when
Roland missed a 4-footer for par
4 on the final green.
TWO boys. one with the grace and
iusouciance of a school girl. the mag
nanimity he must drop before he can
win this hardboiled championship:
the other. still a youngster, but
veteran of hundred tournaments,
with the experience of a Bob Jones,
his namesake, and the tiger heart
of "A Won Elm or a Dempsey.
Exact opposites of type these two,
Roland high strung and ever leaning
backward to do the nice things: Jones
phegmatic. with the disposition of
tho veteran tournament player. de-
spite his tender years, never a grimace
crossing his sun-burned face as he
dropped the lengthy puts that spelled
defeat for Mackenzie. And yet Jones
never was cocksure. He knew his task
and buckled to it, even when he was
( up.
Beaten OF Early.
For Roland. early in the battle
showed the strain of the qualifying
round The corroHary to a winning
round. the invariable let down, came
to him in the first match that found
him dropped out just as at Merton last
year. Poor golf alone found him 4
down at the turn in the morning. \
combination of missed tee shots. er-
ratio chips and sparkling 81 by Jones
left Roland with the deficit.
Buckling down gamely to the task
he knew he faced. he then won three
holes in a row. all with par, when
Jones faltered in his winning stride.
The next three holes then halved, the
fourteenth and fifteenth in par 4s,
Roland, with the memory of puts on
the two previous holes that Tipped the
cup, gave Jones another life at the
short sixteenth. There Jones was
trapped and Roland gave him. a half
by taking three from the green edge.
Roland looked up on short pitch at
the seventeenth to lose the hole and
become down. He skied his tee shot
at the eighteenth to lose that hole and
go to lunch down.
Yet even that was not so hard to
overcome and by all the gods of golf
he should have squared the match at
the third of the afternoon gallop, for
he took three puts on the first green,
to lose while Jones holed a 10-footer,
only got a half on the second, where
Jones made a marvellous recovery
from a trap after a lucky break and
a topped drive, and finally won the
third, where Jones was trapped. That
put him but 3 down.
Hooked Shots Costly.
But again he looked up on short
pitch at the long fourth, and into
trap went the ball. while Jones sank
2O-footer for birdie 4. Again down,
but Roland got hole back at the
fifth. where 1O-foot putt gave him a
birdie 3. where Jones found a guard
ing trap at the green edge.
Roland, consistently hooking his
medium iron shots, pulled another
into a trap at the left of the green at
short sixth to lose when Jones got
good kick back onto the green. They
halved the seventh in As, and then
Roland got q really unkind kick from
fate on the eighth. On the green
from the tee with a sCintillating iron
shot at this 253-yard affair while
Jones was severely trapped. he only
got a half. for Jones ran down a 30
foot putt for }, and Roland's try
ror q deuce curled away from the
cup.
Roland got back the ninth to turn
2 down however. when he cracked
out magnificent drive and great iron
shot To win with birdie 4. They
were both out in IS.
From the turn Just as in the morn
ing. came the amentabe experiences
that cost Roland the match. Only
two yards off the tenth green in >.
where. Jones was for short on the
like. Roland sent d chip shot careen-
ing 10 feet past the hole and failed to
get down for the win. A hooked tee
shot cost him chance To win the
eleventh. where Jones missed his first
tee shot of the day and was trapped
on his second. They halved in SIS.
Closes OF Jones.
Roland finally got one back at the
long twelfth. where Jones failed to get
y chip shot dead for the half in s.
Roland made hash of the short
thirteenth, but got a good half in a.
lie was still in the trap, where he put
MS tee shot, after his second shot, but
got out and sank four-footer for
the half. Jones, also trapped, looked a
sure winner with Mackenzie still in
the sand in >.
Jones played through two traps at
the 14th and Roland won the hole
with a par 4, putting him only 1
down, with four holes to go. and the
hopes of the Washington contingent
rose when Roland cracked out a 800
ward Screamer. Inside Jones on the