Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-08

49, oHmy armour, king OF long iron
players, from Congressional Country
club, shot the lowest score OF the day
yesterday registering d SIS on a course
stretched out to its limit of nearly
I. 900 yards. Although Armour's SIS
was not made in medal competition,
he holed out all his puts and scored
a real Sc.
Fred Mcleod, Columbia pro, got
around in 70. hitting the ball well. but
not getting down a number Of puts
which might just as well have
dropped.
Ralph Beach Of Burning Tree was
-; Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase. II,
and Roland II, Mackenzie, amateur
of Columbia, shot rs on his first
round and was up around so in the
afternoon.
Mackenzie Loses to Pros.
Roland was the only washing
sonian to compete in the amateur
professional matches played yester-
day as curtain raiser to the cham-
pfonship proper. Paired with Keefe
Carter Of Oklahoma the Western
amateur champion. Roland and his
partner lost to Bill Melhorn of New
York and ALI Watrous Of Grand
Rapids, the professional who I'M.
British sopen championship.
Roland was experimenting, plainly,
ana sometimes lamentably in so far
as tAo outcome of the match was
roncefE06 but against the exhibit.
ton MeIhorn and Watrous put up
even the finest game of Roland and
Carter might not have prevailed
Although two of the amateur dues
won their matches against professional
opponents. the paid exponents of the
game demonstrated their superiority
In three more, while one was
halved. Bob Jones and Watts Gum.
Atlanta's famous amateur pair took
thrashing at the hands of Walter
Hagen and Willie Macfarlane, sue
cunbing by 5 and 3 to the splendid
best ball exhibition put UP BY the
national open champion and the
professional match play champions
Hagen had an individual ball OF
So. and the best ball of his team
was 66 against a par 70.
Beach. in Early Start.
Ralph Beach was the first wash
i ingto1 player to get away today,
starting on his first round at "a clio
this morning paired with ID. Il. White
of Wickliffe. Ohio. Bob Barnett start
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Richmond, son Of WiIfred Thompson.
formerly professional at Burning
1 Tres. and Roland Mackenzie got away
at 12:40 with Eddie L.oos Of the Lake
Shore Club Of Chicago.
Tommy Armour and Fred Mcleod
4 left the first tee early this afternoon,
Armour starting at 2:20 with John e.
Shea Of Salem, Mass. while Mcleod
got away with Dewey Weber of La
grange, ILL.,, at 2:25.
Bob Jones, with the finest chance
any man has ever had to annex three
national championships within q year,
started at 1880 with Clarence Il.
woIff, one, Of St.. Louis BEST amateurs.
Hagen, bracketed with Jones as a IA
vorite to win, started with an un-
known. Ben Weichman OF Ash
land. KY.
The pre-tOurnament dope picks this
pair as the two most likely to come
in under the wire late Saturday after
noon to win the title Yet in such q
fiel6Qhs has gathered here even play
el's ~ the caliber of Jones and Hagen
cannot eduitRbly stand out head and
shoulders above the field
Bobby CruickshaIk has hit another
streak Of the kind that got him into
tie So the title in 1923: Willie Mac
farfais5 is playing the SAME plucky
and dogged golf that won for him
last year. and Leo Diegel--the same
excitable and worried Leo OF old---is
hitting the ball far and straight, sell
dom OF the line, and then recovering
in beautiful style
Putting Worries DiegeI.
Leo. who is now the private, pro.
fessional of Adolph Zukor, the movie
magnate of New York, is a bit wor.
ried about his putting. 50 last night
he went out to the practice green and
worried about 1t some more If Leo
worried less about his game and hit
the ball without so much imagination
he would have been champion years
Z ago.
All In all. even though new faces
crop up from time to time. the old
lineup remains the same. Jones and
Hagen have been favorites to win the