Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-25

UiSW a. UuI-ioolSE LOT Il ma IL at the
| sixteenth and the match was square:
put his second shot far over the green
at the Seventeenth to put Jones | up
and again over played the eighteenth
Jones won. but he knew he had been
| in battle. and the issue was in doubt
right up to the last hole. After the
and again overplayed the eighteenth.
! champion. who had been receiving re.
| ports Of his sons progress, said with
| a sigh. II don't want to spend an
other morning like that for a long
| time"
Then Roland went out in the after
noon to meet Martin. a much tougher
customer than Thomas. Roland won
| the first with a bird, dropped the sec
ond and won the third. They halved
| the fourth and fifth in par, and Roland
went 2 UP with birdie at the sixth.
Then they halved the next with Ro-
land turning up. He dropped the
tenth. and they halved the next seven
holes in a row.
At both the sixteenth and seven
teenth the Columbia lad got down
puts that almost folded up Fred Nc
Leod, for had either putt not gone
down It might have spelled defeat for
Roland. AS 1t was they went down
for halves. ard the Columbia lad stood
on the eighteenth tee dormie i up.
Here Martin, calling on everything he
had, stuck a mashie shot five feet from
the pin and won the hole to square
with birdie 3.
So they went to the nineteenth and
Martin hooked into trap, while Ro-
land crashed out a 300-yarder straight
down the alley. Martins out was
lucky to get on the green, but the
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favor. His niblick shot,. plainly tick.
eted to go far to the back edge Of the
green. struck the pin on the first
bounce and lay within feet. Martin,
realizing that defeat stared him in the
face, made a game bid to hole his chip,
but it brushed past the hole. and Ro
land, taking great care, sank his putt
for birdie 8 to win his second 49,
hole match of the day.
Around the green stood little
group of Columbia players-Guy
Standifer. Hugh Mackenzie, Donald
Woodward and Fred Mcleod. The
signs could have been heard in Chi
cago as that putt went down.
Brides Sink Won Elm.
And out there, with his back against
the wall, fighting as only he can
fight, was George Won Elm, victim of
an amazing bunch of brides flung at
him by the phlegmatic Legg, who has
won the Minnesota title 10 times, the
Transmississippi five times and the
Western once. George didn't have any
idea Of the gathering storm as he
turned 2 up on the rotund Legg,
who is getting a bit heavy around the
middle, but hits the ball as we'll as
ever he did. And when Legg stuck
a pitch up against the pin to win the
tenth with a birdie 8 the situation
didn't look serious.
But when authenticated George
dropped shot to par at the short
eleventh to lose the hole to another
3, he realized what was In sight too
late, as 1t turned out, for Legg got
down another putt at the twelfth for
still another birdie, and. became l
George faded his second shot far into
the rough at this par g. affair, and
took a 6. ....,....-.,....-
But the champion was far from
done. He crashed out a 300yarder
at the fourteenth, laid a high iron
shot 10 feet from the pin, and ran
down the putt for an eagle, while
the rotund Legg was getting a bird
4. They halved the fifteenth in par
figures, and the tottering champion
lost fine chance to square at the
sixteenth. where a 6-foot putt curled
away. They halved the seventeenth
in par is and George crossed the
road to the eighteenth tee 1 down.
determination Written on every line.
ament of his face.
Brave Bid Falls Short.
His blond hair streaming down
across his ssunburned face, George
crashed out another distance eater at
the eighteenth. with Legg not far
behind. Won Elm made a brave bid
for birdie here But it just wasn't
In the books, and he faded out Of the
tournament "a beaten champion
when Legg holed 2-footer for the
half
If there is anything in this age
business this year Legg should win
the championship. On his form of
yesterday he should beat Mackenzie,
who has not been going any too well,
but even that can't be told yet. The
Won Elm match may have been the
determined effort of a veteran who
knows the tricks of the course. And
then again 1t may be his regular stuff.
Today will tell the tale
TIE young Finlay lad, only IS years
old, trounced DIR. o. F. Willing quite
handily in the morning, and then
poured beating into D. Clarke Cork.
ran of Philadelphia, erstwhile Middle
Atlantic champion. sinking a 30-foot
putt on the sixteenth green to win
the hole and the match with a birdie
8. Finlay's tee shots, outranging even
those Of Mackenzie. are the sensation
Of the tournament. and the lad looks
to be going somewhere. II he gets
away with Francis Ouirnet today he
may go far, even though Bob Jones
stands in his path. ~