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

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4 Il tional amateur golf cham
pionship today as Roland r.
Mackenzie Of Columbia. ace of the
Capital brigade who came out to the
great open spaces to contest for the
now unclaimed amateur crown, match
ed shots in the third round of the title
chase with Harry G. Legg of Mini.
kahda. the veteran who pulled hol'
low.shell comeback to topple George
Won Elm from the peak OF the anna.
teur pack yesterday.
If last year was the year of youth,
this one seems the year for the aging
veterans, In golf and some other sports.
Five men who have faced the barrier
in this championship for a decade and
more are in there today. battling over
the third round for the right to enter
the seminal tomorrow. Two of the
others were college youths, and one
has played in but fUur other cham.
pionships.
Legg. the gray-haired gent. who
showed a most amazing brand Of golf
Yesterday to knock George Won Elm
off his throne, is the outstanding vet.
eran of the group. Chick Evans comes
next, for Chick started playing in this
championship away back in 1909. Then
comes Francis Ouimet. winner in 1914:
Robert Tyre Jones. who broke into
the big leagues in 1915, and Harrison
r. Johnston, a veteran Of the same
vintage. In between comes Eddie
Held Of st. Louis. national public links
titleholder of 1922. who played in his
national amateur that year.
And the others are the two college
youths-MackenZie. a junior at Brown
in the Fall, and Phillips Finlay, late
of Exeter. the 19-year.old kid, who
will natriculate at Harvard in Sep.
TENDER. The West has five repre-.
sentatives left in the championship,
one is from the South and two call
the East their place of domicile, for
Finlay halls from Redland, Calf,
although he attends school in the
East.
Roland Under Dog Today.
Roland entered the third round to.
day the under dog in his match
against Harry Legs. not because he
played so terribly yesterday, but be.
cause Of the tremendous exhibition
put up by. the Minikahda veteran,
who calls every bunker on this course
by its first name and is rumored to
have nursed the grass on the putting
greens. Yet il Roland exhibits the
same stiff back he Showed against
Dave Martin Of Los Angeles yester.
day afternoon and forgets to half hit
his niblick shots he may move into
the semi-final. And there is the added
factor that Legg, who is nearing the
half century mark, may. find himself
tottering from the pace set by the
strong nmbed Capital lad.
OF course. there are other fine
matches scattered through the draw
today. For example Bob Jones. who
just got through his first round yes
terday, Is matching shots with Har.
rison Johnston, the Home Club ace;
Chick Evans is opposed to Eddie Held,
and the amazing Finlay lad stacks
UP against Francis Ouinet. This is
no set up for Francis, for Finlay, out
side OF Legg, 10 easily the sensation Of
the championship. ..--------.--.--- x. x.
Roland is playing In the third
round only by the grace OF good luck
and couple of fine puts that came
at the right time. He needed SO holes
to get through yesterday, winning
both his matches on the nineteenth
hole. The morning match. against
George Thomas, a 20-year-old Chicago
public links product, was the tough.
est of the two, for Thomas, a slim.
built lad, lacking the airs and graces
that mark the seasoned performer in
the amateur classic, seemed likely to
win at any. time, going to the four
teenth all square and standing on the
eighteenth tee again all square after
holing an eight-footer for a birdie to
win the seventeenth.
Martin Is Son of a Pro.
Roland then went out in the after.
noon against David Martin, a chunky,
strongly built lad from Los Angeles,
and again went nineteen holes. win.
ming when. his second shot hit the
pin and he holed a six.foot putt for
a birdie 8. Martin is the son Of Ernest
Martin, professional at Los Angeles
club. and he plays like a pro. If
Roland had played as badly against
him as he played against Thomas in
the morning he would be in the gal
lery today.
The MacKenzie-T Thomas match real.
ly was a travesty on championship
golf. Neither man bettered 40 over
the first nine, Roland dropping three
of the first four holes, and finally
winning the fourteenth to go one up.
lie lost the fifteenth and won the six.
teeHtn, Jumping q dead Stymle to get
his victorious par 4. And the young
ster from Chicago sank birdie at the
seventeenth to win, only to top his tee
shot at the eighteenth. But here he
showed great nerve, for he pushed a
brassie shot just short of the green,
Clipped up four feet away and sank
the putt for half. He again topped
his tee shot at the nineteenth and
Roland was in. There wasn't any
question about his, to win, while
the other lad took s.
Meanwhile Bob Jones was out
there, in a, cat and dog fight with
Maurice j Mccarthy. jr., son of the
pro at Flatbush, Brooklyn, and a
junior member of the Washington
Golf and Country Club. Mccarthy.
who hits them as far as any man
In this field, dropped the first hole
to Jones and still was / down at
the seventh. But here Mccarthy
started a rally that put him up at
the turn. They halved the next six
holes and Bobby was in the odd posi-.
ton Of being / down and 8 to 20
against comparative unknowa.
Mccarthy Finally Cracks.
The British open champion was
losing and the galleryites scuttled like
flies across the course to see him lose.