Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-27
OIJJMET ROUTED BY BOBBY:
MACKENZIE BOWS TO CHICK
Albanian an Easy Victor, by and 10, But Washing
ton Lad Succumbs TO Chicago Veteran Only
9th Hole Due to 25.fooi Putt for Birdie 3.

| halVed the i73 yard fourteenth In
| birdie as. Chick driving SO far he got
! home with 1t mashie niblick. And
! Roland squared at the fifteenth where
/ Chick : usual impecCable iron play left
| him for the moment. and he pushed
/ his second to bunker. Even at that,
| his bid for a hit the hole.
Square After 33 Holes.
SO they stood on the sixteenth tee,
| 33 holes behind them, all square.
! Both were down the middle from the
! tee and Roland's second went over
! the green, while Chick on the like was
| gust off the right edge. within putting
! distance. Roland Clipped back Is feet
/ over and Chick made miserable chip.
| running five feet past the hole.
! Roland missed and then Chick obliged
| by blowing his tivefooter to become /
up. They halved the seventeenth in
As. though Roland pushed his tee shot
| to the long grass and stood square
on tho thirty-sXth tee.
! 1t seemed a victory for Roland was
| due as Evans pushed his tee shot TO
! the grass behind a tree, but with room
! to clear it over the top. Chick played
fine shot, but it kicked off the green
| into the grass at the right. Ana
! Roland played a poor shot, for him,
| leaving him 40 feet to the left and
short of the hole. Then Evans came
| through with the shot that kept him
| in the match. chipping up four feet
short, while Roland ran his ball up
| to within three feet. Chick holed and
Roland holed and they went to the
thirty-seventh tee.
Both were far down the middle on
the 326-yard first hole. with Roland
ahead as usual. Chicks niblick shot,
straight at the pin. ran to the back
edge of the green % feet past. and
Roland played grand shot Is feet to
the right. Long and carefully Chick
surveyed the line, moving slowly over
the undulating green to pick up every
stray particle of gravel. and he
stepped up and holed the putt, snap
ping his fingers as the ball dropped.
Then Roland, with one shot to stay
| in the championship. looked his putt
over and hit it. For a moment 1t
rolled straight and true. Then three
feet from the hole it veered off and
rolled past the left edge of the cup.
Coneratulates His COnqueror.
Roland smilingly stepped over to
| Chick and congratulated him, the ges-
ture of the beaten golfer, greater IN
defeat than in victory, VINO hao
battled the two-time champion down
the line to the extra hole, only 10 lose
to a phenomenal putt. And as Koianu
left the green his arms around FREDDY
| Mcleod, he walked through con
tinuous line of cheering spectators.
anxious to shake the hand of the lad
who had shown himself so great
golfer and so true a sportsman.
All through the long day Roland
carried himself like the great golfer
and gentleman he Is. 1t was no dls-
credit to lose to Evans, nor to lose IN
the way he did, and Roland knows 1t.
! He is as great today, though loser
as is the Evans who is out there bat
Ting with Jones' Only once during
the day did the partisan Midwestern
gallery display the Partially they
feel for Evans out here in prairie
land. That was evinced on the eighth
green in the afternoon where Evans
holed a 15-footer for and Roland
missed an Shooter to win. Then the
gallery, barely finished cheering
Evans successful putt, clapped as
Rolands bid for brushed by the
cup.
The tch yesterday was ROland's
third extra hole engagement of the
championship. Both his first two
matches were won on the nineteenth
hole, and Thursday he went to the
eighteenth to beat Harry Legg. Of
course, there must come a time when
any man will lose an extra hole
match. and it fell to Roland to en-
counter a 25-foot putt for a birdie.
But the lad, as Francis Ouimet said
yesterday, has found himself and will
be a factor in every championship.
That match Thursday with Legg
settled that, and yesterdays match
with Evans strengthened his conf
dence. OF course. as long as Jones
keeps on going the way he is, no
man in the pack is going to beat him,
but there will come the day when
Roland will be sitting on top of the
heap.
Just touch of the way Bob Jones
is shooting. When he beat Ouimet
yesterday he had played 1913 holes
in this championship in five strokes
under par-the most bewildering ex-
hibition that ever has been shown in
the title chase. And that included
the mediocre IS he had in his first
match round with Maurice J. Nc.
Carthy. If any man can shoot bet
ter than that he is entitled to the
championship