Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-04
Mackenzie, Mcleod
Paired 10 Battle
Crosby, Penna
stose Golf Tilt Sunday
As Red Cross Benefit;
Nee Bows in Upset
Nv WALTER McCALLUM.

By WALTER McCALLUM.
Roland R. Mackenzie will be the
fourth man in the Red Cross ex-
hibition match at the Columbia
Country Club. Sunday, at 1870 pm,
and. with Fred Mcleod, Columbia
mentor, will oppose Bing Crosby
and Tony Penna.
A corps Of Red Cross workers
from the Chevy Chase chapter,
headed by Mrs. George A. Finch,
will sell tickets on the grounds Of
the club. The exhibition will be
handled by the Columbia Golf Com
mittee, headed by DR.. Paul M.
Stewart, who made the announce
ment of Roland MacKenzie's desig-
nation as the fourth man in the
match.
Roland has played comparative
" little golf since he relinquished
the professional berth at Congress
sional in March, 1898, but has kept
his hand in by a few rounds at
Burning Tree and Columbia. He
isa member Of both clubs and
crack golfer. He is a close friend
Of Bing Crosby. and has played
with the singing film star many
times in Los Angeles.
Over the phone today from White
Sulphur Springs. w. Va, where he
is resting. Crosby expressed his
satisfaction that Roland is to play.
ut will be fine playing again with
Roland" said Bing. We've had a
lot Of fun together on the golf
course"
Crosby will arrive Sunday morn
ing and will attend a luncheon at
Columbia with the other members
of the four-ball match.
More "upsets" possibly were due
at Columbia today as the club title
tourney moved through its semi
final phase. but the real fun, as in
any tournament. came in the lower
flights, where the leSs-than-expert
golfers really enjoyed themselves.
It's doubtful If there will be a
match in the tournament like the
one yesterday in which Don Mac
Kenzie piled up dormie 6 lead
over George Berry and then
dropped six straight holes, winning
on the 18th.
Garrett Is Giant Killer.
And it will be a long time before
Maury Nee. the former Georgetown
football and golf star, forgets the
last hole in his match with Wilbur
Garrett, the blond youngster who
has proven the giant killer in the
tourney. Maury was up at one
time in that second round match.
But they stood on the 18th tee all
even. He crashed out a big tee
shot and knocked his second short
OF the green. Wilbur didn't reach
the green in three Then Maury hit
one about six feet, knocked the next
eight feet past the hole and lost it
to a buzzard 5.
Martin F. Mccarthy, the iron
man" of many tournaments, sprang
dI1OUllcI upSSG d. llC 11ChCd
Earl Skinker, 2 and l, outscoring
and outplaying the youngster The
big moment of that match came at
the 18th, where Mccarthy was l up.
There Earl laid his tee shot four
feet from the pin for an almost
certain deuce. Mccarthy holed a
20-footer for a half and won the
18th to annex the match.
Roy H. Pickford, who won the
Washington Golf and Country Club
title "a years ago, was another up
set" winner over Don Buckingham.
win. On locker room form the only
favorite to win was Tommy Webb,
who licked Billy Shannon, and g.
But were these results strictly up
sets? After all they were golf
matches and the best man at the
time won 'em.
Today's championship flight pair
tngs:
Martin F. Mccarthy VS.. Roy H.
Pickford; Wilbur Garrett VS.. Tommy
Webb.
Beaver Dam Is Dark Horse.
Beaver Dams strong golf team,
strictly dark horse in the pre-
tournament dope, has high hopes of
upsetting the favored Terra Mariae
team Sunday when they clash with
the Baltimore outfit at Beaver Dam
1t will give Al Houghton q shot at
revenge, in a way, for Al-with Jim
Gipe as partner-dropped an 8 and
9 decision to Terra Mariaes top
team Of Joe Kirkwood and Otto
Greiner at Manor Tuesday. The
Kirkwood-Greiner team went on to
win the amateur-pro tourney.
Al has taken lot of kidding about
that one. and is thirsting for re-
venge. He will strut his best stuff
against Terra Mariae Sunday. and
when Houghton wants badly to win
he's a tough hombre Particularly
over his home course.
Feminine golfers of the town have
only one tourney coming up next
week, but it will be big one. Entries
will close tomorrow for the Middle
Atlantic women's championship, to
start at Chevy Chase Monday morn
ing
The winner of the tourney won't
come from the group of women who
played in the buffers" affair yester-
day at Beaver Dam for the Harris
Cup, for all the competitors had
handicaps from 18 to IS. But some
OF the victors in the lower flights of
the midAtlantic may come from
that group
Mrs. J. A. Thurston of Kenwood
won the Harris trophy with a card
Of 103-20-83. The gross award
went to Mrs. Earl Clary of Indian
Spring with los. Other net winners
we're:
Mrs Nh Hartman Be Beaver sp,,I pam ar
106-20-s6; Mrs. A. H. Bell Manor.
106-l9-S1: Mrs. H. B. Stone, Manor,
I11-23-Ss; Mrs. J. P, Harper, Column
bia. 107-20-ss Madeline Bsst. Manor.
112-24-Ss: Mrs. william Hoed Ken
wood, 107-1Q-ss: Mrs W F Keer,
Beaver Dam, 107-l9-SS; Mrs. Gorham