Evening star., 1933-10-30

N ADDED entry who may cause
~ a lot of trouble in the tourney
n has arrived in Washington for
practice prior to competing in
the National Capital open which is due
to start week from next Saturday at
the Kenwood Golf and Country Club.
The young man in question is none
other than Roland R. Mackenzie, for
ner star amateur golfer. now full
f1edged professional, who is in Wash
ington to see his parents before hop.
ping of for the South and ultimately
back to California during the Winter.
During his stay here Roland plans
to show his graceful golf swing and his
unerring putting skill in the coming
Kenwood tourney, an event that will
mark one of his few starts since he
renounced the simon pure ranks a year
ago and became q professional golfer:
For the past eight months Roland
has been at Colorado Springs, Colo,
where he has had a successful season
as an instructor. But he eschewed
tournament play in order to dig him.
self in and thoroughly acquaint himself
with the teaching end of the game.
Last Winter, shortly after he turned
pro, he played in one or two tourna-
mentS, but he was not in the best Of
health and did not make a good show
ing. This year, however, he is back in
golfer than ever.
If Roland can get back some Of the
youthful skill Of those days back in
1925 and 1927. when he was one of the
first half dozen amateur golfers of the
Nation, he may go long way in the
National Capital open. He and his
wife, the attractive Betty Mackenzie,
have come East by automobile, with a
trailer arrangement somewhat similar
to that used by Sarazen and Kirkwood
in their transforming tour this year.
TOWARD NORDLINGER. the
smooth-swinging. imperturbable
gent who has been the king pin
of golf at the Woodmont Country Club
for many years past, again holds the
club title. Although Melvin Kraft. a
rising youthful star, put up a game
battle in the l8-hole final round yes
terday, Nordlinger defeated him by a
none too convincing margin Of 3
and /.
1t was Nordlinger's seventh straight
win in the club title event and he shot
73 to win from Kraft, who won the
first hole and maintained this ad-
vantage for five straight holes, until
he missed wee putt on the fifth.
But at the long sixth Nordlinger struck
his stride and quickly went into a lead
which Kraft could not overcome.
The youngster was dormie 8 down
going to the sixteenth and won the
hole, but lost on the seventeenth when
he took q at this short hole against
q par for Nordlinger.
Maurice Eiseman won his way to the
final Of the second flight by trouncing
Arthur Stephens, and T. He will meet
Lou Harris in the final round.
Army-Navy Country Club golfers today
are celebrating victory in the "rubber"
match of their series with Beaver Dam.
They trounced the Beaver Dam club
men over the service club layout by %
points to IL, but Cliff Spencer and G
c. Strong of Beaver Dam got their
revenge for a previous defeat by licking
Danny Burton and l.. v. Steele in the
first match, while Martin F. Mccarthy
and John r. Miller, flnalists in the
Beaver Dam championship, turned in
q 2-to-1 victory over the star team Of
Capt. K j. Fielder and Capt. D. o.
Hickey Of the service club. The sum-
maries:
DAM, points, Danny Burton and l.. v.