Evening star., 1928-12-23
w YHAT are the prospects for
n new star arising from the
Nv ranks of junior golfers about
Washington next year?

V WHAT are the prospects Tor
n new star arising from the
AN ranks of junior golfers about
Y Washington next year?
Since Roland r. MacKen-
zie became a nationally known star
four years ago there has been no golfer
out of the ranks of youngsters about
the CAPITAL who seemed likely to match
MacKenzies record. OF course there
was George j. Voigt, but he was not a
youngster and he is not today Wash
inctonian. The fact that he Is placed
by most critics in the first half dozen
American golfers reflects credit on
Washington, where he learned the
game, but the world does not know
that when he registers from New
York club.
| A Junior is a boy who has not yet
reached voting age, and most good golf
| ers of today who go anywhere in the
game show promise before they reach
the age of 81. Mackenzie did, Jones
| did, Sweetser did, Ouinnet did, and so
| on. The woods are full of mature
golfers of today who won big cham
| pionships before they reached their
majority.
On this basis it would seem that
| Washington has no such future star,
| ton-the juniors-do not by any means
dominate the picture.
There are Frank Roesch Of Wash
ingtQn and Page Hufty OF Congressional
and Karl Kellerman of Columbia, lads
Just out of the junior class who showed
ample promise as youngsters, but have
| not yet reached the point where they
could figure in big championship.
And among the Juniors there are
| John c. Shorey, who has not gone as
far as he might--for various reasons;
Munro Hunter. son Of the Indian
! Spring professional and golf champion
Of Central High School; Byrn Curtiss
of Indian Spring and Tom Bones OF
Columbia, Tom Webb and Charles Evans
of Washington and Gordon Stone of
the Virginia Club.
| OF the lot Shorey Is far the best
| or at least he is the best, judged solely
! by his competitive record. Stone prob
| ably is steadier than the others and
| has contributed some brilliant golf over
| his own course, one round of II stand
| iNg out. Bones and CurtisS are south
paws, and as such would seem to be
doomed to tournament obscurity, for
there are few cases in golf where a
southpaw really has become good. But
Bones went to the semi-flnal in the
Columbia tourney, and Curtiss has done
i well In other events. It may be that one
of these lads will upset the usual south
paw tradition and prove that a port
slider can 60 somewhere in golf.
Back in 1923 and 1924 Roland Mac
Kenzie-then II and 18 years old-war
the kingpin of golf around Washington
Today no youngster under 81 has any
where near the record the young Co.
lumbia star piled up those years.
1t Is not improbable that one o1
these lads will so improve his game
next year that he may attain the posi-
tion of prominence attained by Mac
Kenzie before he dropped out Of local
competition Harry G. Pitt did 1t this
year, and one of the others might dc
the same thing. For several years Pitt
was just good golfer, a threat at all
times, but seldom a winner. Then sud
denly he started to come through, and
he did come through with vengeance
winning the championship tourney OF
the Middle Atlantic Golf Association
! and the Chevy Chase event and going