Evening star., 1926-05-25
ROLAND MACKENZIE
BEATEN IN TOURNEY
Loses | Up to Eng|ishman.
Jones Has Hard Fight.
Gardner Defeated.
By the Associated Press.

MUIRFIELD. Scotland, May 25.-
Americas hopes for the British anna
teur golf championship received a Sc
we're setback this morning when Rob
ert A. Gardner. captain Of the Walker
cup team, was defeated, 8 and 2. by
H. NJ. Dickson of Glasgow. Dickson
caught the Chicagoan completely off
his game and made the best of every
opportunity.
D. H. Kyle of Roehampton defeated
Roland Mackenzie of Washington. D.
c.. by one hole.
Another Walker cup man, Bobby
Jones. the American champion, pulled
through to victory. and 2. after Is
holes of unconvincing golf against
Maj. c. B. Ormerod, former British
army champion.
In addition to Gardner. two other
Chicago entries were eliminated when
E. Hoover Bankard was beaten. 4 and
8, by r G. Henderson, East Lothian
star, and j. B. Ryerson, scratched.
Jones' Opponent Weak.
Gardner's game was at IS and Is
all the way around. He fought hard
to recover after the ninth where he
was down. but a dead stymie on the
sixteenth green sealed his fate.
Although the day was sultry. with
hardly a breeze stirring, the Ameri-
cans could not get going. Bobby Jones
was saved by the weakness of Maj
Ormerod, who was continually digging
surrounding the greens. Both the
American and the Englishman picked
up on several holes. The Albanian
was never in actual danger. and it
appeared that the lack of intensive
competition was responsible in part
for the looseness of his playing.
Jones lost the 179.yard fourth in a
manner astonishing to the gallery.
Neither tee shot landed on the green,
but the major pitched his second sue.
cessfully. Bobby studied his shot
lengthily from Is yards to the left
and below the green. He finally at
tempted a run-up shot, but the ball
caught In the bunker. Two swings
with a niblick failed to extricate it
and he picked up in disgust.
Gets Half With a Six.
On the long sixth Ass yards) the
American had a perfect drive, but
sent his second soaring over a wall
into a woods at the left and had to
retrace his steps and take the penalty
of stroke and distance. He finally es-
capped with a half in skies.
Lawrence NJ. Lloyd of Greenwich
defeated w. MacCallum, 1 up.
Grant A. Peacock of Garden City.
n. Y. defeated James Brock of
Prestwich, st. Nicholas, 6 and 4.
Watts Gum of Atlanta defeated
F. S. Stone. 2 UP.
Francis Ouimet was 3 up on
George Won Elm of Los Angeles at
the turn.
Sir Ernest Holderness, former
British champion, defeated Allan J.
Graham of the Royal Liverpool Club,
5 and f..
Douglas Grant, Californian. who
has long lived in England, playing
as member of the Royal st. George s
Club. defeated W. A. Powell of Ad :
dington, 4 and g.
Bobby Jones played erratic golf
against Maj. Ormerod and took AZ for
the first nine holes. The two players
went to the eighth tee all square, and
as word went around that the Ameri
can star was having difficulty with
the former British Army champion
crowds fiocked to follow the match.
Bobby, however. took the eighth and
ninth with As. putting him up al
eiic tuiH. AS dH iIlulCdtlOn OF the 0lf
ficulties the youthful Albanian encoun
tered early in the round, he picked
up on the fourth and seventh, both
short holes. He was out of bounds
with his second shot on the 45s.yard
sixth and lost both stroke and dis
tance, but luckily halved the hole In
s. his opponent taking three shots
from the rough.
Jones pulled himself together on
the homeward journey. but Mai. Or.
merod continued to visit the bunkers
and the match ended on the sixteenth
green with a half in 4s.
The cards:
Jones'
Out. - 75s4 44s
Ormerod-'
Out. 6 4 4~6 6 2 z 5-41
The cards for the second nine holes:
Jones
Ina 444 81 Sax $50
Ormerod-
In... SIS 545 SO x-s1
Jess Sweetser defeated George Rem.
wick of Northumberland, 6 and 4.
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