Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-20

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"a representative in the ma
NV tional amateur champion
ship at Pebble Beach, Calf.
early in September. Roland
r. Mackenzie of Columbia, outstanding
amateur golfer of Washington since
1923, belied earlier reports that he
would not play in the amateur cham
pionship by climbing aboard train for
Chicago yesterday en- route to Callfor-
MIA, where he will make his seventh
bid for Bobby Jones championship.
Albert r. Mackenzie, his father, now
is at Colorado Springs and will join his
son in California.
For several months Roland has been
of two minds whether or not to play
in the championship. In the first place,
he didn't know. whether his employers
in New York would give him the time
off in which to play. And in the Sec
and he declared not long ago that he
didn't feel that he could afford the
long trip to California. Quite appar-
emily all these troubles have been
cleared up and Roland today is in the
Middle West, about one-third of the
way through his long journey to the
Pacific Coast.
So Washington will have at least one
man representing local club in the
pros declare will remain seated on
Bobby Jones head after the battle of
Pebble Beach Is concluded. And q
worth competitor he is, for Roland Mac
kenzie has the finest record in anna
teur championships of any men who
ever represented the Capital.
George j. Voigt will be out there, too,
but Voigt no longer represents WASH
ington club everf3though he still is a
atNapr nf 4.rxk l.
istered in the championship from the
North Hills Club of Long Island. And
judging from all accounts from the
New York neighborhood, Voigt is not
such hot golfer as he was last year.
He has taken it on the chin several
times this year and has not been at
all the sensation he was a year back.
Roland Mackenzie started his anna
teur championship career back in 1923,
when he went out to F1oSSmoor as a
kid" Of 16 years and failed to qualify.
The following year he qualified, and
carried George Won Elm to the thirty
seventh hole in a match that has gone
down in golf history as one of the finest
ever played. The following year he won
the qualifying medal at Oakmont. and
was beaten in the first round by Rich
ard A. Jones. At Baltusrol in 1925 he
fell before Miller B. STEVENSON, a club
mate, in the second round. The year
1927 marked the high spot in Roland s
championship career.
A Summer spent in Colorado, without
thought of golf. brought him to the
championship keen for the fray, and
with few practice rounds he was on
edge. With little more control over
the last few holes he might have won
the qualifying round. But as it was he
qualified with strokes to spare. And
with each round, from the first round,
he improved, going through to the semi
final.
There he met Chick Evans of Chicago.
the same redoubtable Chick who has
held both the amateur and open titles
And there, in the round before the final
Chick holed a 20-foot putt across the
green at the thirty-Seventh hole to beat
the fighting Washington lad. Last year
Roland had played only few rounds
of golf during the Summer, and with his
heart not in the game he failed to
qualify.
This year he has played comparatively
little, but what little golf he has played
has been exceptionally good. He should
qualify and make good showing in the
amateur championship. He is the only
man on whom Washingtonians pin a
hope OF victory, for Maurice Mccarthy,
Miller STEVENSON, Harry Pitt and all the
others who went forth from the Capital
last year have decided to forego the trip
this year.