Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16

The victor in the tournament is no.
now a member of any club. When he
won the District championship from
Miller B. STEVENSON back in 1920 he
was member of the Columbia Country
Club, where he learned his game under
the tutelage Of Fred Mcleod. The same
year he lost in the final of the mid
atlantic champion at Richmond to A,
Lee Halves. In 1921, when the national
open championship was held at Column
bia, FinkenStae edit qualified with Walter
Hagen and registered a rs to qualify
with two strokes to spare. The follow
ing year he left Washington for Youngs-
town, Ohio, and four years ago went to
Chicago to make his home. He is now
going back to youngstown, and has re-
signed from the Woodmyer Club Of
Chicago, where he played while in the
Windy City. Prior to competing in the
Columbia tourney he had played only
half dozen rounds Of golf this year.
Beat Mackenzie in Semi finals.
BUT back on his native heath, and
ever the course where he learned the
kame. Finkenstaedt quickly was able to
recall all the good golf that had made
him king-pin OF the local amateurs for
two or three years nearly q decade ago.
Qualifying with a 76 he defeated Harry
q. Pitt in the first round Of the tour
ney, trimmed Elliott Spicer in the Sec
ond round and eliminated the veteran
Albert r. Mackenzie in the semi-final.
while Finkenstaedt was beating Mac
Kenzie to enter the final, Aycock was
handing Harry wisotzkey Of York, Pa,
o 4-and-3 trouncing, playing prac-
tically unbeatable golf. But the strain
of pair Of strange glasses told on Ay-
cock in the final. The lad from Flor
H. YniSlQid
them Friday night. He played in the
semi-final with a strange pair, but his
Judgment of distance was plainly OF
In the final. 1t may or may not have
been the glasses. Aycock would be the
last man in the world to say 1t was,
but there is the fact: he lost his golf
glasses Friday night.
Aycock Starred Well.
Aycock started as II he would win
the first hole, laying niblick shot
only feet from the pin. He missed
the putt for the birdie, however, and
Finkenstaedt haIved with par 4 The
second was llalved In As, and Finken-
staedt took the lead at the third when
Aycock missed a Scooter for the half
after overplaying the green with his
second shot. The match was squared
at the short fourth which Aycock won
when Finkenstaedt under played
short pitch from the left Of the green.
Aycock got a great half on the long
fifth, putting his tee shot out Of bounds
and still securing a par 5 by fine
pitch and a 6-foot putt. He went into
the lead at the sixth, where he holed
Q curling 30-foot putt for birdie 8.
But at this point Aycock became I'M
steady, and Finkenstaedt became as
steady as a rock, winning the next
four holes In row. when Aycock took
three puts from the edge Of the sew
enth green: was trapped at the short
eighth, hooked his iron shot at the
the tenth. Finkenstaedt, however, was
out In 36, one over par, which is good
enough golf to be 2 up on almost any
one.
Match Ends on Sixteenth.
They halved the eleventh in IS and
the twelfth in birdie As, with both men
reaching the green IN two shots. Fin
kenstaedt took three puts on the thir-
teenth green and enabled Aycock to
get a half after the Florida lad had
pulled his iron shot widely TO the left
of the green. Finkenstaedt drove in a
bunker at the fourteenth hole to loEe
the hole and become up with 4 to go.
But he came back strongly at the If
teenth, where he knocked out tee shot
over the hill and raped niblick shot
10 feet from the pin to sink the putt
for a birdie 3. That left Finkenstaedt
dornie 8, and he quickly ended the
match by securing half in on the
short sixteenth, where Aycock made a
gallant bid for his deuce, but failed by
inches.
Cards of the finalists follow: