Evening star., 1925-05-10


tournament. the young Mackenzie
at any time.
Although Roland wasn't quite up to
the game he showed on Friday, when
he broke the record for the Wash
score of 50, the feature of the final
round was the machine-li like con-
sfstency of the 1S-year-old District
Of Columbia amateur champion
kane's was a splendid effort, but
availed little against the almost
hopeless odds made by the crushing
power of a game that never faltered
In Glass Alone.
Week. before last, Roland won the
qualifying round and the tournament
at Indian Spring. Last week he be-
gan play at Washington by winning
the qualifying round. There never
has been golfer around the Dis
trict so good or so consistent as
Roland and just now 1t seems he is
far too good for the competition.
To be sure, he Is pressed at times
and he will be beaten once in a
while. He nearly was beaten yes
terday morning by w. A. Mcclure,
q public links star, after piling up an
impressive lead in the early stages of
the match. Mcclure took him to the
nineteenth hole, where Roland per-
formed as a champion should. driv-
ing the green on the 305-yard hole
and winning the match with a birdie
>.
Just a mere incident in the Mac
Kenzie tenor of life, but Roland has
promised himself he will never. never
let down in a golf match again, for
Mcclure won three of the last nine
hnIAG ia v1nf
often done against the accuracy and
length of the junior son of the Mac
kenzfe clan.
Gen. James A. Drain, president of
Washington Golf and Country Club
and national commander Of the Amer.
lean Legion, voiced the hopes of thou
sands of Washington golfers In pre-
senting the prizes when he referred
to Roland Mackenzie as g. coming ma
tional amateur champion.
= From the viewpoint of one who has
seen more than a few championships
and all the fine golfers of this country
and others. Roland lacks nothing need
ed to win the national. He has out
stripped the local competition so far
that even IL he does occasionally lose
a match-and he will from time to
time-it will be through lack of prac-
lice and possibly a bit of carelessness.
Today not an amateur golfer around
Washington, with the possible excep-
ton Of Ashmead Fuller of Chevy
Chase. is near the class of game Mac
kenzie has shown in his last two
tournaments.
Kane Game Player.
Gene Kane Is a fine golfer. A
product of St. Louis, where Eddie
Held, Dick Bockencamp and Jimmy
L.
golf Is played-hail from. Kane, not
withstanding a series of fine recovery
shots, succumbed to the remorseless
power of a grand golf game.
Kane stuck like leech to the fast
fhang Mackenzie on the first nine
holes of the match, but lost four holes
in a row after the turn to become
dormie down. The fourteenth was
halved and the match ended.
The Georgetown student laid up a
fine nfblick shot to get a half in 4
at the first hole. after slicing his tee
shot and going short Of the green with
putt for q half in at the short second
hole, but lost the third hole to q par
4 by Roland, to become l down.
Roland was home in two shots at
the 472.yard fourth hole, winning the
hole with a when Kane's second shot
went over the green. The District
champion played his pitch a bit fine
at the tricky fifth and lost the hole
when his second shot found the bunk
er in front of the hole.
They halved the sixth in par As
Kane again getting down a fine putt
Of feet for a half. Both played the
seventh hole badly. Mackenzie hook
ing his tee shot to the rough and push.
ing his second shot to the right. Kane,
with q clear shot to the green, sliced
his second, half hit his third, and
again got good half in 5 by a fine
chip shot.
Roland took 3 to get down from the
edge Of the eighth green, missing a
4.foot putt to win the hole in A. On
the ninth green from the tee, while his
opponent was at the left of the green
Roland only got a half when Kane
laid another fine chip shot 3 feet
from the hole and sank the putt. Ro
lands try for just ran by the edge
Of the cup.
Mackenzie Boosts Lead.
That left Mackenzie up at the
turn, and showed the quality of Kane's
nerve, for the Georgetown player had
continually come from behind all
through the outward journey.
The strain began to tell on Bane
at the tenth, however, where he top
ped his tee shot, hooked two balls out
OF bounds and finally picked UP. His
shot to the short eleventh found the
ditch and he, was three down when
he failed to get out In two shots.
A hooked tee shot at the twelfth
out Of bounds cost Kane another
hole, for Roland was home with a
drive and niblick shot within IL
feet Of the hole. Kane missed his
pitch to the thirteenth, while Roland
who had driven more than 800 yards
over the hill in front of the green
laid a niblick shot up against the hole
and secured a birdie 3
That left Mackenzie 5 up and
to play, with the end in sight. II
came at the short fourteenth, where
both men secured par SIS. Roland
had won himself another golf tourna
ment.
Pressed in Early Match.
Roland waxed little careless
against Mcclure in the morning
-Four up at the eleventh hole, Rolant
lost the twelfth when he took three
puts, while Mcclure holed a 80
footer for par f. Roland. won thu
thirteenth, and then dropped tho
fourteenth through another three put
green, and the fifteenth when Nc
CURE ran down q 10.footer for
while Roland missed from feet FOL
q half.
They halved the sixteenth in a.,
and then Roland hooked into an un
playable lie In the ditch, losing thu
seyenteent11 hole to a 4 by MCGUIRE