Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-01
DEFEATS ROBERTS
OF YALE, Z AND |.
Shows His Mettle in Last
Nine Holes of Finely
Played Match.

Ey the Associated Press
RYE. N. Y. June S0-Maurice ].
Mccarthy. IT,. Of Georgetown Univer-
sity won the national intercollegiate
golf championship today by defeating
Johnny Roberts Of Yale. > up and ! 10
play III the 36-hole Anal after being
held to a deadlock at the end OF y
holes. The stocky. long driving 81
year-old son a the golf professional at
the ola FlatbuSh Club in Brooklyn thus
became the hrst Georgetown student
ever to scale the heights Of lntercol-
iegiate golfing supremacy.
Roberts. who halls from Utica,
barely made the SiX-man team that
came here to represent his college. He
had thought so little of his chances
a. reaching the final round that he
had passage booked to sail for Europe
today.
Roberts Fools Himself.
When this tournament got under
way last Tuesday Mccarthy was one
O. the favorites. while Roberts was only
cne Of IS young hopefuls assembled
from colleges In all parts of the country.
The Georgetown youth won the medal
with 36-hole score of lat and
through the rounds OF match play
stood out as the only favorite TO live
Ip 10 expectations. Around about, all
the leading contenders were falling
Watts Gum of Georgia Tech. defend
ing champion; Chuck Hunter Of the
University Of Washington. Pacific Coast
star: j. E. Lehman of Purdue, Big Ten
title holder But Mccarthy kept shoot
ing the same steady golf.
Both of the finalists today were play
Eng as well as they ever did in their
lives and the cards we're well up TO
the standards Of college championship
golf. Given par on the thirtv-SiXth
hole, which was not played, Mccarthy
scored a I47 exactly the same figures
In which he won the medal, and Roberts
& ISL.
Roberts had a dramatic way Of keep
ing the match close and interesting by
flashes Of brilliant putting or approach
ing when they were needed badly. The
most sensational Of these coups were
achieved in rapid succession on the
outgoing afternoon nine when Roberts
scored a par and three brides in
row. TO square the match and then
take the lead after having started out
] down.
The nerve strain under which Roberts
was laboring showed at the nineteenth
hole. when two irons in succession were
hit tirnidly because of overanxiousneSS
and fell short Mccarthy calmly pocket
ed the hole with par to lead 2 up.
Then came the break In Roberts
favor Mccarthy lost stroke By over
pitching the green. and Roberts gath
cred in the hole with par 4.
Apparently cool again, the Yale play
eT then laid his iron second shot on the
greeh on the short twenty-first. but Nc
Carthy was right beside him. It was
almost an even test Of putting ability,
l@k~ Nfe 1s.l-
awey, while Mccarthy missed
A perfect approach shot was Roberts
inspired effort on the next hole. The
Putt was easy for birdie 3. and he
was leading for the first time in the
match.
Each Gets a Birdie.
Challenged squarely, Mccarthy here
showed his OWL fighting spirit. Roberts
drove the twenty-third green, for this
was q short hole. and this time was
down in two for his third birdie in
row. Mccarthy. however, did the same.
II was the turning point Of the match.
The next two holes were squared, and
then Mccarthy wiped out his oppo-
nent's up lead with a par 4. Roberts
going short OF the green with one iron
shot and over it with another for 5.
IA half on the month. and they were
square, but Mccarthy thereafter shortly
proved that he was in the saddle TO
stay.
At his best on the long holes because
Of the great distance he gets with his
woods, Mccarthy took the 445-yard
twenty -eighth with par and increased
ahe margin to up at the 4l5-yard
xhirty-second with a par 4. Roberts
showed he was still In the battle by
breaking through for the short thirty
fourth after Mccarthy had wasted
stroke in a sand trap.
A par 5 on the tflirty-flfth hole was
good enough TO win the match and
championship for the Georgetown play
er. Roberts hitting bunker from the
tee. and there wasting the stroke that
might have given him half and a
chance at the home green.