Evening star., 1932-05-21

more convinced than ever that I
am right. Roland Mackenzie
ranks today as high as any player
I have SEEN"
J. Monro Hunter, ST., father of
the lad whom Roland Mackenzie
vanquished yesterday in the final
round of the Chevy Chase tourna-
ment, was speaking. He spoke of
booming tee shots, of we'll stroked
puts and of high-f1ying pitches
that flung themselves up along
side distant pins to dig in close
and leave puts for birdies-all
from the clubs Of the former
Walker Cup star, who downed his
own youngster yesterday in one of
the finest exhibitions of golf ever
seen in this or any other city.
"Yes, Roland is back. And how"
Hunter remarked. IF he keeps on
playing golf the way he did yesterday
he will beat any amateur in the country.
I've seen lot of fine golf, but never
have seen a better streak of consistency
than Roland put on yesterday. Munro
played WELL but neither he nor any
one else could have stood up against the
kind of golf Roland played. 1t was
simply unbeatable. He is a great golfer
and a great boy. I'm proud that my
boy played against him in the final"
a ND that's the way a lot Of folks
"A around Washington feel today
about Roland Mackenzie, the stall
wart son of Albert R. Mackenzie, who
came back to Washington a few weeks
ago with his bride, played a couple
rounds of golf in advance of the Chevy
Chase event and then, warming up to
his work, and getting better as play
progressed, Smothered young Munro
Hunter in the final under a barrage of
of the finest golf that has been seen
around the bunker -fringed Capital in
many, many years. Roland beat Hunter
by and 4 and Hunter was around the
course in rs. That speaks volumes for
the game put up by the Columbia lad,
who has won everything there is to be
won around Washington in past years
and now is back after a five-year ab-
sence with the same relentless brand of
golf that established him on the top
rung Of the local ladder before he was
out Of his teens
From the time Roland knocked in
q 15-footer for a to win the sixth
hole there wasn't any doubt as to
which way the match was going.
Hunter, a youngster of 81 years, was
playing well, but Roland was simply
unbeatable.
DOBBY JONES himself might have
ID stood up against the barrage, but
we don't know any one else who
could have stood it. For here is the
way Roland played the holes from the
fifth to the finish of the match on the
fourteenth. He slid in l5-footer for
4 at the sixth to win and go l up. He
canned another 15-footer for bird 3
at the seventh. He got a par on the
long eighth for half. He missed
4-footer for a at the ninth, but still
won the hole with 4 through
stynie, which Hunter was unable to
negotiate He laid pitch shot with
in 8 feet of the hole at the tenth and
missed the putt, but still won the hole,
for Hunter, thinking Roland would
hole the putt, went too strong for his
deuce and missed his 3. Roland laid
q high iron shot 5 feet from the hole
at the long eleventh and holed the putt
for a bird 8. He pitched to within
IeeJ Oh JUc HOl6 dL ILlt
and missed the putt to give Hunter
half. His iron tee shot at the ZOO
yard thirteenth left him an 8-foot putt
for a deuce, which he missed to en-
able Hunter to secure half. Dormie
5 up, he topped his tee shot at the
fourteenth, knocked an iron shot out
of the high grass, pitched onto the
green 18 feet from the hole and rolled
in the putt for half to win the match.
How can golf Ika that be beaten? He
played the IA Nc7cs of the match in
exactly par and he finished out the
round to score TO- one above par for
the course.
DOLAND missed holeable puts at the
IN first. ninth, tenth, twelfth and
thirteenth. He knocked in three
lengthy puts at the sixth, seventh and
fourteenth. He made three mistakes
during the round and Re retrieved them
all by fancy pitching and unerring
putting.
Hey. you Walker Cup team selectorsl
Cast an eye toward Washington, where
now dwells a former playmate Of yours,
a lad who has done well for the United
States in other Walker Cup matches.
Roland Mackenzie is back in the game
You could do worse-far worSe-than
Choose MIN 10 O6IenQ Ln6 walker Cup
against England.
And as for future golf tournaments
around Washington, if Roland chooses
to compete there is going to be plenty
Of fun in the Middle Atlantic, the Dis
trict championship and the other
Journeys yet scheduled If he plays as
he played yesterday he'll take lot of
beating. Roland had a fairly easy tine
beating Fred Hitz in the semi-final by
and 2, but young Hunter pulled a
match out Ct the fire to whip Harry
Pitt and advance to the final. Pitt was
up most Of the way, but Hunter squared
with a bird 3 at the sixteenth, went
into the lead with a 4 at the seven
teenth and halved the last hole to win,
! up.
And to top off the finest Chevy
Chase tournament that has been played
in many year Levi Cooke presented
the prizes. If you haven't heard Levi
Cooke make a prize presentation you
have treat in store. Don't miss him
next time. Honeyed words Of wisdom
and wit flow from his lips. It's worth
listening TO.
MRS. DOROTHY WHITE NICHoL-
1V1 SON who as Dorothy White of
the Washington Golf and Coun-
try Club. won the District Women's
championship four years in row. play
ed Mrs Everett EynOn, young Colum-
bia matron, in the final round for the
District womens title today a. the
Manor Club. Mrs. Eynon is a new
conner to District championship final
rounds, although she won the Columbia
title two years ago and annexed the
Rhode Island State title in 1880.
Mrs. Nicholson, returning to the game
after a two-year lay-off, defeated MIS-.
j. Marvin Haynes, Middle-Atlantic
title holder, by and /, in one semi
final yesterday, while Mrs. Eynon de-
feated Winifred Faunce of Manor in
the other semi-final by and 2. The
tournament closed this afternoon with
the prize presentation by Herbert T.
Shannon donor of the chief tronhY