Evening star., 1925-06-16


And vet along comes this pesky
game OF golf-the same golf that is
winning business men away from bust
ness, and professional men away from
their professions, and youth away
from schools, and tennis players away
from the courts, yachsmen away
from their yachts. and all the other
terrible things laid now at the gate
way to the links. The utter depravity
of golf knows no depths. Old men
hold on to their mashies and jiggers
and niblicks until the younger genera
ton fairly has to smash and smother
them out Of the high places.
Has to Beat Dad"
All of which leads up to the fact
that Washington's young champion
ship contender in the ranks of the
premier golfers has once more been
called upon to dispose Of his father
in the semi-fnals of an invitation
tournament held at the Columbia
Country Club over the same course
where the open championship of 1921
was fought out.
Young Roland Mackenzie, IS years
old and nearly feet tall, one of the
most natural club swingerS the game
has produced, went on TO win the
tournament after his father, Albert f.
Mackenzie, had been safely put out
of the way to the tune of I up and 3
to play.
Young Mackenzie has won all four
of the club invitation tournaments
held in the District of Columbia this
Spring, and this week will attempt to
annex the title of Middle Atlantic
champion, the tournament to be held
at the course of the new Maryland
Country Club, Baltimore. Mackenzie,
senior. won the title two years ago.
He will strive for it again this year,
but if the luck of the draw pits him
once more against his son the chances
are 100 to ! that the boy will get the
decision Roland Mackenzie is half
head taller than his father; is a hand
some, modest, lovable boy-takinE
after his mother, according TO all the
wiseacres of the Columbia Club.
Matches Hard Fought.
The battles between father and son
have been hard fought always. Young
Mackenzie is just in his fourth season
at the game. In his second year he
was called upon to meet dad. and
dad" did not hesitate to put the
Young fellow back where he belonged.
There's time enough for you IN the
future" he said; the old man still
packs a WALTON
Roland Just grinned. Already he had
the vision of the heights just ahead.
He has "walloped'' the old man sew
ereal times since then, and there are
those who know that Father Albert
will never be able TO ''spank" his stall
wart son again, Young Mackenzie is
no Bobby Jones as yet. He could not
match Bobby's recent feat of playing
eight championship rounds-two at
2 a
grand average of 1914 strokes for each
round. Few, if any, golfers in the
world can match such a record.
Nor is young Mackenzie yet to be
called a stylist, for his swing, though
free and graceful with all the 1.-the
ness of youth, has not yet been mel
lowed and refined with the priceless
years of experience. Young Macken-
zie shoots Columbia in the early 70s,
however, and in one of his latest COM
petitions reeled off a - without effort.
Mother Roots for Father.
And where does Mother" MacKen-
zie stand in all these fierce links bat
ties between father and son, between
husband and first born? Can there be
a Solomonlike division of loyalty be-
tween the two? What would most
mothers do in the face of such a bat
tie? Where would be the winning
pull?
Mrs. Mackenzie helped to solve the
problem this last time by not follow
ing the match. Heavenly tire trou-
Bile" saved her from reaching the Co
lumbia course while the semi-final
was in progress.
But her secret is out. She confessed
it to a girl friend who vowed never to
tell. Mrs. Mackenzie was hoping
dad" would win Just this time" be-
cause dad" loves the game so much,
has been the local and sectional cham
pion, and Roland has 20-odd years to
go before he will be as old as dad"
is today-and all the championship
honorS lie before him. Was mother
wrong in pulling for dad
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