The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-04-24
GOLF PLAYERS
GOLFER HIGHLY
SKILLED YOUTH
Lack Of Physical Strength and
Endurance Overcome in
Lumber Camp
MADE WALKER CUP TEAM
Although Not Familiar to
Public, Washington Boy
Is Great Star
BY HENRY L. FARRELL


Washington, April "a. - When
Babe Ruth scattered 50 home runs
over the American League map a
number Of years ago, = baseball ma
ton in one breath acclaimed him Is
the greatest slugger that ever lived.
But in the next breath it was asked
"Where is the fellow who is going
to beat that record?"
When young jack Dempsey al
most massacred Jess Willard in
Toledo in 1919 and won the world
heavyweight championship, old and
experienced managers paid tribute
to him as q perfect fighting ma
chine. but they turned from the
ringside and started out like pros.
pectors looking for another long
shot who could beat him in like
manner.
It is perhaps an American char
acteristic, rather common to the
field of sport, to make hearty and
enjoyable meal Of the present and
then look Immediately t. the future
for a dessert.
So it is that right now in the
height Of his glory, accepted as the
perfect golfer and the greatest
player Of all time, Bobby Jones is
figuring in a speculation-"Who is
going to take his placer"
Jones Is Quitting
Jones has made the question more
opportune by the announcement
that as family head and an ambi-
tious young barrister he must make
his golf secondary to the duty of
becoming q star or q champion Of
the legal profession and that his
championship competition in golf
must be restricted to q very few
tournaments.
There are any number Of amateur
candidates being advanced for sue
cession to the Jones chair and q
great many Of them are favoritc
sons Of various sections and dis.
tricts. In considering the qualif:ca-
tions of the candidates it is better
to ignore the hurrah of the roofing
sections and listen to the opinions
Of good players.
Among baseball players very
fine player is termed q ball play
er's player" It means that the ball
players, who know the real art of
their trade, consider him to be more
Of q skilled artisan than some Of
the leaders in the averages and
some Of those whose pictures are
more familiar to the public.
# there is q similar classification
for rating the class Of golf play
er's game, young Roland Mackenzie
might be termed aptly . "golf
players player because a number
Of the most prominent players Look
upon the handsome 21-year-old
Washington youth rs the player
with the best prospects Of taking
the place Of the great Jones.
Is Great Player
Mackenzie has been q very good
golf player for . number Of years
He --'..s che Of the ranking members
Of = great American Walker Cup
team which invaded England and
Scotland in 1926 - is almost q
veteran campaigner in the big
American tournaments. It was gen.
orally accepted, though, that he
lacked the physical strength and
the endurance to become I cham.
pion.
Until the last six months he hat
been Of . frail type, q boy who
grew too fast and it was recognized
that he would have to build up ply,
sically to bring out the real golf il
his game. Within the last year
however, he has become q husky
youngster Of It's pounds, that typ
Of build that causes q football
coach to say Of q young man
s'There would be . great end" H,
is Drowned by northern winds ans