Evening star., 1925-09-01

Ffior 20 yesterday Roland wa
critical and blaSc as they hear tales
-rion. now find in Roland a coming
surely within a short space of time.
Today Roland's field has broadened
From a local star he has attained
stature of a national figure. The tall
blond youth, with the diffidence of a
debutante and the unhurried manner
ism of a Chesterfield, suddenly has
arrived"
Washington has known it for two
years. The rest of the golfing world
is just taking him seriously.
Roland, good as he is with his golf
clubs, still is the fine unaffected young
ster who won four tournaments in a
row this Spring.
After Qualifying Medal.
He is in. for this championship re.
solved itself into a scrap for IS places.
Chick Evans. Max Marston, Bob
Gardner, Dexter Cummings, Woody
Flatt, Rudy knepper and Davidson
Heron, all national figures. have
failed where Mackenzie has succeeded.
They are out. So are Miller B. Stew
inson, Chris j. Dunphy and A. l..
Houghton, the other entrants from
Washington.
And as Roland started today on the
last half of the medal round he was
playing not alone to qualtfy-he was
sure of that-but to win the qualifying
medal
Mackenzie's II established a new
course record for Oakmont, for the
present LAYOUT never has been played
from the back tees. 1t set a mark
tllat will likely stand as the competi-
tive record for some time. Few golf
ers can meet the pace set by Mac
-kenzie. as he rushed through the final
nine holes yesterday in SS strokes.
under par, gathering a trio of
brides along the route.
Unerringly accurate from the tee,
with length better than that of Jones,
Roland found his greatest strength in
the putter. A few of them stayed
out, for example the one at the ninth.
where he took 3 puts, bur he had
of more than Is feet OF the sort no
man can expect to hole even on such
fine greens as here. Three OF them
came in the last nine holes The last
was a curving 20-footer that raped
the back of the cup with satisfying
alunk. The previous putt on the
seventeenth was a l5-footer that gave
Mackenzie a life after he made a
bad chip shot.
Starts None Too Well.
". Roland started in ordinary fashion.
"a hAiiS llit6E pulIS Oh. the IiGSI green.
but making up with a birdie at
the second. A pushed second shot
which found trap, cost him a at
the third. but he came right back
with a brace of brides at the fourth
and fifth, both resulting from great
iron shots to the pin.
He was trapped at the lT2-yard
sixth and had to be content with a
!, but got his par on the hard 395-
yard seventh and another par 8 at
the 253yard eighth. That left him a
birdie for a 35 out. His second at
.the ninth left him nothing more than
a short chip shot. but he was 10
ieet short. In the effort TO hole the
putt he ran four feet past and missed
the return. With a 6 he was out in 3S
lie gathered a good gallery as he
walloped a screamer from the tenth
Z tee. He made only one mistake in
the way in, missed putt of feet
at the eleventh, where he had gone
too strong for a birdie 8.
Roland got back of a pair of wooden
shots at the 573-yard twelfth. the
. longest hole on the course. and nearly
got home in 2. His chip was dead
and he got another birdie. Par As
followed on the fourteenth and
fifteenth and he got down good g.,
par 3, at the sixteenth
That left him with two As to
tie Jones. Putting all the strength
dnto the ball, Roland drove to the
edge of the seventeenth green, 800
yards from the tee, and even though
bis chip shot was ffreeen feet past
The hole, he was not to be denied.
Ihe putt never wavered.
With d 4 for a u, Roland spanked
out great drive at the eighteenth,
said high iron shot 20 feet short
and sank the putt for another birdie.
~ thousand people, banked around
The green, cheered and slapped him on
che back as he grinned like an EN-
barrassed boy.