Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-24
BOBBY Jones BEATS
MCCARTHY TWO Up
Champion Has Close Call in
Match With CoIIegian.
Mackenzie Wins.
By the Associated Press.

MINNEAPOLIS, August "a
Bobby Jones beat Maurice Nc
Carthy, Georgetown University
star, up in closely contested
match Of the national amateur
golf tournament here today.
By the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, August -.
George Won Elm, defending cham
pion, came through his first match
round by defeating John Mckinlay,
jr., of Chicago, and 2.
Won Elm was l above par going
out, but got lead of 2 up as Mckin'
Law took 49, The champion lost the
tenth with to the Chicagoan's
birdie 3, but took the next with a
deuce and the long thirteenth with a
s. He dropped the fifteenth to a par,
but closed the struggle at the six
teenth with par.
Harry Legg of Minneapolis defeated
Rudy Knepper of Chicago, and 2
and will meet Won Elm in the second
round.
Roland Mackenzie, Washington, de
feated George Thomas, Chicago, in 19
holes.
Dave Martin, Los Angeles, defeated
Howard Walter, Chicago, and 3.
Francis Ouimet, Boston, defeated
Billy Sixty, Milwaukee, 6 and 5.
Eddie Held, st. Louis, defeated Dex-
ter Cummings, Chicago, and S.
Chick Evans defeated Ellsworth Au-
gust, 2 and !.
Allen Moser, Los Angeles. defeated
Dave Ward, Grand Rapids 1 up.
| Arthur Yates, Rochester, defeated
Paul Haviland, Bridgeport, Conn,
l up.
Phillips Finlay Of New York de-
feated DR.. 0. F. Willing of Portland,
| 4 and 3.
Jimmy Johnston defeated Dick
Jones, New York, and 3.
| Fast greens and smooth fairways
greeted the 80 players to contest for
| the national amateur golf champion.
ship at Minikahda. A chill breeze
was in the air, but a. sun promising
| warmth as the day wore on.
Carthy Match.
Bobby Jones found Maurice Nc
| Carthy, the Georgetown collegian, a
| golf mouthful and went out on his
second nine in the first round OF anna
teur championship match play down
to his youthful opponent. Some OF the
faint.hearted supporters of the cham
|
| ish open champion left his 81 brand of
golf yesterday in the locker room with
| his extra clubs. He started with a
snappy birdie at the first. but was
never on his game after that.
Mccarthy was shaky at the start,
| but made 2 brides in row at the
| fifth and sixth to square the match.
after Bobby had taken lead OF 2
holes, one by virtue of his birdie and
another through his opponents errors.
Bobby again took the lead at the sew
| enth, when Mccarthy was timid with
| his approach. The medalist then
found trouble at both the eighth and
ninth, and was down for the first time.
After his birdie at the first. Bobby
went over par with a at the second,
but Mccarthy could do no better.
| Bobby was we'll in short third for a
par, while Mccarthy was just off the
green. and then missed a short putt,
| taking 4. The fifth was halved In
| IS, Bobby needing puts to get
down. Jones got in a group OF IS on
| the fifth and wound up with 5, while
Mccarthy ran down 15.foot putt for
birdie 3.
Misses Hole i'm One.
On the 195.yard sixth Mccarthy mar
rowly missed a hole in one. His tee
shot rolled to within eight inches of
the cup and when Bobby putted his
ball struck his opponents and moved
1t two inches nearer the hole.
| Jones par was good enough to
| win the seventh, but Mccarthy got
| 1t back on the 232.yard eighth. Both
were trapped from the tee and Bobby
failed to get out with his second, while
Mccarthy was on in and down In
| two puts.
| Bobby's tee shot was pulled on the
ninth and he finally took 6 to for
| Mccarthy.
Bobby squared the match on the
| tenth with a par, but could do no
| better than halve the next two, al
though Mccarthy took one above par
on the 177-yard eleventh. They
| halved the 384-yard twelfth in par 4.
Jones was 1 down at the fourteenth
and fighting hard to survive.
Jones was over 4s to the fifteenth,
while Mccarthy was only over. Fac
| ing disadvantage of down and only
| 3 holes to- go, Jones tried his best to
| get his irons under control, but the
| wizardry he possessed yesterday was
apparently sunk in Lake Calhoun,
| which borders the course.
McCarthy's putt for par 4 on the
sixteenth trimmed the cup and stayed
| out, while Jones got down and squared
the match with 2 holes to 60.
Jones won the seventeenth and was
| dormie ].
Jones got a beautiful drive on the
| home hole, while McCarthy's tee shot
was pulled to the gallery, where it hit
man and stopped 80 yards short OF
Bobby's ball.
Won Elm Tees OF First.
Won Elm, the champion, teed off
| first. with John McKinlay, jr., of
Chicago, and started his day right by
holing q 3O-foot putt for a birdie 3
at the first hole, while his opponent
| took 5.
| They halved the second in par A. but
each took puts on the short third
and halved in 4.
Rudy Knepper. Sioux City. Iowa,
started like wildtire. but so did his
opponent. Harry Legg.
| Knepper got par on the first hole
and two successive brides to gain
| lead of 2 up. Knepper was deadly
with his irons.
| Thomas got jump of on Roland
Mackenzie, who was l over par on
both the second and third, after they
had halved the first in perfect figures.
| There were too many bunkers on the
second and the hilltop green OF the
third puzzled the Eastern player.
Won Elm dropped the fourth hole to
a par, and, being unable to get better
than a half on the next two, was all
| square after the sixth.
| Martin, by winning the first two
holes, was l up on Walton. who man.
| aged to win the short third with q