Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1925, Page 67

CONQUERS KANE, 5 AND 4 I“I FINAL AT WASHINGTON Youthf,ul District Amateur Champion Given Brisk Battle on Out Nine, Proves too Consistent in Play for Georgetown Student. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. “consistency,’ language egrly N OAH WEBSTER had to employ a number of words in defining when he compiled his dictionary of the English in the last century. Were he living today and engaxcd in the compilation of a golf lexicon; he need only follow the word “eonsistency” with—Roland R. MacKentzie, » In golf around Washington, Roland -is, Old Man, or perhaps it is better to say Boy, Consistency himself. * It sounds just a little trite-now- adays, but the fact is that- Roland wom himself another golf tournament yesterday and won in the same impressive fashion that he did in his two- immediately previous local starts. Playing_against Gene Kane of St. Louis, a student ‘at Georgetown “University, in the final round of the Washington Golf and. Country Club tournament, the young MacKenzie won, 5 and 4, witHout being pressed at any time. Although Roland wasn't quite up to{ green, the game he showed on Friday, when he broke the record for the Wash- ington course: with a remarkable sqore of 69, the feature of the final rgund was the machine-like con- sfstency of the 18-year-old District t Columbia amateur champion. Kane's was a splendid effort, but availed little against the almost hopeless odds made by the crushing “power of a game that never faltered. In Class Alone. ‘Week before last, Roland won the qualifyihg round and the tournament at Indian Spring. Last week he be- zan play at Washington by winning the qualifying round. There never has been a golfer around the Dis- trict so good or so consistent as Roland and just now it deems he is far too good for the competition. ‘To be sure, he is pressed at times and he will be beaten once in a while. He nearly was beaten yes. terday morning by W. A. McGuire, a public links star, after piling up an impressive lead in the early stages of the match. - McGuire took him to the nineteenth hole, where Roland per- formed as a champion should, driv- ing the green on the 805-yard hole anfl winning the match with a birdie Jun a mere incident in the Mac- Kenzie tenor of life, but Roland has promised himself he will never, never let down in‘'a golf match again, for McGuire won three of the last nine holes with par—a stuht that is not often done against the accuracy and length of the junior son of the Mac- Ienzie clan. Gen. James A. Drain, president of Washington Golf and Country Club and national commander of the Amer- ican Legion, voliced the hopes of thou- sands of Washington golfers in pre- senting the prizes when he referred to Roland MacKenzie as 2 coming na- tional amateur champion. ~ From the viewpoint of one who has | seen more than a few champoinships | and all the fine golfers of this country and others, Roland lagks nothing need- ed to win the national. He has out- stripped the local competition so far that even if he does occasionally lose a match—and he will from time to time—it will be through lack of prac- tice and possibly a bit of carelessness. Today not an amateur golfer around Washington, with the possibie excep- tion of Ashmead Fuller of Chevy Chase, is near the class of game Mac- Kenzie has sfown in his last two tournaments. Kane Game Player. «Gene Kane is a fine golfer. A product of St. Loufs, where Eddie Held, Dick Bockencamp and Jimmy Manjon—names well known wherever 8olf is played—hail from, Kane, not- withstanding a series of fine recovery shots, succumbed to the remorseless power of a grand golf game. Kane stuck like a leech to -the fast- fging MacKenzie on the first nine holes of the match, but lost four holes in a row after the turn to become dormie 5 down. The fourteenth was halved and the match ended. The Ceorgetown student laid up a fine niblick shot to get a half in 4 at the first hole, after slicing, his tee shot and going short of the green with' his second shot. He sank a 15-foet putt for a half in 3 at the short second hole, but lost the third hole to & par 4 by Roland, to become 1 down. Roland was home in two shots at the 472.yard fourth hole, winning the hole with a 4 when Kane’s second shot went over the green. The District champion played his pitch a bit fine at the tricky fifth and lost the hole ‘when his second shot found the bunk- er in front of the hole. They halved the sixth in par 4s Kane again getting down a fine putt of 6 feet for a half. Both played the seventh hole badly, MacKenzie hook- ing his tee shot to the rough and push- ing his second shot to the right. Kane, with a clear shot to the green, sliced his second, half hit his third, and again got a good half in 5 by a fine chip shot. Roland took 3 to get down from the edge of the eighth green, missing a 4-foot putt.to win the hole in 4. On the ninth green from the tee, while his dpponent was at the left of the green, Roland only got a half when Kane | Washington. défeated nd 5 laid another fine chip shot .3 feet from the hole and sank the putt. Ro- land’s try for a 2 just ran by the edge of the cup. " MacKenzie Boosts Lead. That left MacKenzie 1 up ‘at the turn, and showed the quality of Kane’s nerve, for the Georgetown player had continually come from behind all through the outward journey. The strain began fo tell on lane at the tenth, however, where he-top- péd his tee shot, hooked two balls out of bounds and finally picked up. His shot to the short eleventh found the ditch and he, was three down when he failed to get out in two shot: A hqoked tee shot at the twelfth out -of bounds cost Kane another hole, for Roland was home with a drive and a niblick shot ‘within 10|but feet of the hole. Kane missed his pitch to the thirteenth, while Roland, who had driven mote than 300 yards over the hill in front of the laid a niblick shot up against the hole and secured a birdle 3 That left MacKenzie 5 up and 6 to play, with the end in sight. came at the short fourteenth, where ‘both , men secured par 3's. Roland had won himself another golf tourna- ment. | Pressed in Early Match. “Foland_waxed a little careless against McGuiré in the morning, Four up at the eleventh hole, Roland lost the twelfth when he took three putts, while McGuire holed a 30 footer for a par 4. thirteenth, and then dropped the fourteenth through another three-putt green, and the fifteenth when Mc- Guire ran down a 10-footer for a 4, It tl Roland-won the |3 805' yards away, while Mc- Guire sliced his tee shot far off the line, put his second shot over the green and finally picked up, conced: ing Roland the match. In the meantime Kane was admin- istering a sound drubbing to Joseph A. Cox of Rock Creek Park to the tune of 3 and 2. - Final Round Curds. Cards of the final round foll Par (out)...... 4 3 4 54 4 MacKenzie. J434454 Kage.. 4350644 0 BB ‘hoies mot played:) i’ Tourney Summary. A summary of yesterday's match rounds follows: Fi fight.~ semi-final—Gene Louie, defeated 5" A, Cox, unattached, land R. MacKenzle, eated -unattached. 1 ap &n holesv .&mm Gefented Kane. hi, pemi-Onale—4, hma. defeated - A (‘ox una et 13 BT i Syl B rier. bia; 5 and 3. . Finai-Speciman defeated e Blehe. sesi-inale—Larry Day Geteated . 3. De Moil. Colamdia. ¥ hed, defeat e semi-finals Glittee. defeated C. B. Btlch Lolumbh b ; K. '. ledu Cnnlmuflm] de- Tested K, Hugh. Washingt e T SinuieFietaer aeteuea Calfoe. "6 a nd 8. Fifth flight, semi-finale—D. H. Luttrell, ashington. déteated G. B. Christiin. Colum- 4 : De Vere Burr. Columbia, de- : , Washington, 3 up. inade—] Luttrell, 2 and 1. "Sixin fisn—g defeated L. Shd Rl 38 a:uyed i Consolations. atéd . A "R nsom, unattached, by de: Final-—Tucker defeated Gruver, 3 flight, semi-finals—R. Geare, P. B. He : J. E. Rice, W: . Bannockburn, 4 and ington, de- 8. w. ver., Indian | qual lbfl to M‘- Dr. W. Gen. James A. Drain, Roger Kane. SAD NEWS BROKEN T0 SCRIBE GOLFERS Handicaps /for the Spring. tourna- ment of the Washington Newspaper Golf Club, to be held tomorrow.at the Town and Country Club,” were an- nounced last night. Beginnfng with a 2 handicap assigned to W. R. Me- Callum, the handicaps run up to 30. Prizes, will be awarded.for low gross, low net, second low net, a booby prize and three: blind bogey prizes. The player with the low net score will get his name on the McLean trophy and will, in addition, be given a prize by the Town and Country. Club. The handicaps !oll{pw- . Kessler. Gene.. . Lambert. Jobn T. sica EE iessaom b i S pa1 330 9 i oERECERRIRREEESE! taufler, Chas. Holmes Gen l\ jtokes. ‘Thos. L. tel. “ burt. Hone " Hagry B Huntiey. T Hutchinson. w a3 erbey. F. Weiht Saey L. 4 Kerbey. McFall.. 14 b MEET IS ONE SIDED. STARKVILLE, Miss., May 9.—Mis- sissippi A. and M, track field-team, southern conference champions de- feated Alabampa team, 103 to 22, in a meet here today. The Missis- sippi ‘won first place in: every event Final—Géare defeated Rice, 1 up. except the shot put. STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE HE group of golfers at clubs ment schedule will move the T about the city who follow tourna- scene of their endeavors this week from Washington Golf and Country.Club to Chevy Chase Club, where the latter organization will stage its annual invitation golf tourna- ment, heginning next Wed#lesday. The original intention of the club was to make the tournament a four-day affair, with the qualifying round divided between Tuesday and Wednesday, but the smalk entry list has permitted the golf committeel to start all entrants in one day. Wednes- | day will be the only qualifying day, with match piay scheduled for Thurs-'| day and Friday. The entry list, which closed last night, comprises fewér than 100 nameés, Chaifman Thompson of the golf committee announced. Among the men entered, however, are several of the prominent plavers of the East, including Phil S. P. Randolph of Pip- ing Rock, Long Island, who has been in the South all Winter; Donald Par- son of Chevy Chase, winner of the Chevy Chase qualifying - medal last vear, and John R. Maxwell, one of the leading players about Philadelphia. The tournament entries are limited to club members with handicaps of 14 or less, and entries must be submitted through the club secretaries, who will certify as to handicaps. Milles B. Stevinson of Columbia Country Club won the tournament last year, defeat- ing John F. Dailey of Rochester, N. Y., in the final round. R. W. Geare of Wash Wuhxnnon Golf and Country Club has a new stunt lor bettering the lie of a ball lying o water hazard. Geare claims mn'maa is entirely within ,the rules of golf. Others may think ifferently. Here the way it works: Geore finds his ball lying in shallow water. He decides that to lose a shot by dropping out of the hazard, will cost him, too much, and since he isn’t to6 suré of his shots, he does not like to play out of the water. So he builds a mud dam upstream and in a few mo- ments his ball lies on the sand bottom or mud bottom of the shallow ditch, from which he proceeds to ‘play it as if it were on the fairway, Charles T. Clagett ¢laims it {sn’t within the rules, Gearé claims ‘otherwise. 80 far he has gotten away. with. it. George Weaver of Washington had 2 pair of great shots—shots which will appeal particularly to Columbia men y while playing. the Colu Burni oll a green at the unlh/ he holed a mashie shot for a 3. Things w‘nt along swimmingly untfl he struck | Virginla defeated Pi steep appearing over the crest, He find it anywhere on the green, utterly unable to MI‘CV' hi nally peered while Roland missed from § feet for| ' & half. , They halved the sixteenth in 4's ar\d then Roland hooked into.an un- playable lie in the ditch, loeing- the seventeenth hole to a 4 by McGuire. ‘Another hooked tee shot cost Roland the last hole, with McGuire on the green in 2 and Roland in the ditch off | on the tee. Boland_ decided to bis previous foolishness when the teé lme!ih'l .M%Q‘:n e al 1 « stop must come|and Finals are scheduled for Friday afternoon. put the bail into the ditch again sev- eral times. R. Cliff McKimmlig, Mel Shorey. land R. MacKenzie and W. P, Este are playing in an exhibition match”today at Argyle Country Club. Ro- Di A week from tomorow the golfers of the Washington Automotive Trade As- sociation will hold the first intercity tournament of 'the year at Con- gressional Country Club, entertaining golfers in. the automobile business from Baltimore, Philadelphia. Newark, and Pittsburgh. The men will play 36 holes of golf, to be followed by a din Tier at the clup. The Washington as- noc!a on will hold a_tournament “at ngtony Golf and Country Club on *May 20, SPRINGFIELD 1S EASY ~ -~ WINNER OF TITLE MEET SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 9(A.P)). —Springfield Collége won the seventh annual track ang fleid meet of the Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Asso. clation- today. Springfleld took seven first places and scored 64% points, more than twice as many as its near- est_opponent. Northwestern University scored 301 for second place, and Massachusetts Agricuttural College was third with 25. ;Other, scores were: Vermont, 17i Connecticut ; Aggies, .12; Worcester Polyteotnfc. 11; Tufts, % Trinity, 5 and Norwich HARVARD WINS ON TkAcx. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 9.—Har- vard’s track team defeated Massa- chusetts” Institute of Tech in a dual meet here today, 168 1.10 to 56 1-10. St o, TIGER NETMEN SCORE. - PRINCETON, N. J., May 9.—Prince- ton's tennis team defeafed Pennsyl- Vania. todsy. 7 maiches to. 2. MEET T0 WEST-VIRGINIA. PITTSBURGH P May 9.—West track mt here today \%rzh B d“‘: 8% to b 3. )Y a score of Barr, Dr. J. T. McClonshan, F.D. Coombs, Richard Kuntx, C. R 4 TN LT INCYL nd MscKentie, M. ‘H. Luttrell, DeVere 0. Mackey, o I=I‘I‘Rllr e EAK wrists -in goli can be made strong when the golfer knows how to make them work. All average golfers—that i. business” men and others who do not do hard work with the hands—must realizg that the wrists and hands will act sluggishly in the golf swing for the reason that lazy, slug» gish muscles never work until they are driven to it. It becomes necessary, then, to s0 place weak wrigts in the golf swing that they will have the maximum power, automatically, that they -are capable of. Or, expressing it another way, there is a way of placing the wrists 80 that the speed of the flying club will carty them right intg their work agd prevent them from giving way at the instant when you most de- pend upon them. This is accomplished by the relation of the Vs forméd by thumbs and - forefingers when the shaft is grasped. In figure 1 we see these Vs correctly placed. ' In figure 2 the Vs are opposed to | each other. In figure 3 we see how | the clubhead has been thrown through the ball and straight out after it be- cause of thé correct wrist action at the hhitting instant, made possible by the two V position of the hands, as’ shown in figure 1. Weak wrists were here made strong because they could do nothing else but hit the ball. i watching |last quarter mile. The two Vs, as shown in figure 1, should extend in a line toward the right shoulder during. the address. ‘This brings the left hand well over on top of the shaft. The right hand then s somewhat at the side of the shaft and in behind it, not on top of it. As the clubhead is'thrown through the ‘ball the right hand thus pushes to the maximum of its power, while the left wrist is turned directly across the ball. In this pesitfon the left wrist cannot possibly give at the instant of hitting as it will do if the wrist is turned the other way. (Copyright. Chbestar. 1925.) DODGE OUTRUNS RAY. SEATTLE, May 9.—Ray Dodge of the Ignois Athletic Club, defeated his club rhate, Joie Ray in a special mile race here today. The time was 4:22 3-10. The race was even until the Dodge finished 10 yards ahead. i MANY STAR GOLFERS TO TAKE OPEN TEST By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 9.—Pairing for the mid-Western elimination “rounds of the national open golf championship, to be held at Onwentsia Club on May 27-28, issued tonight by Robert A. Gardner, vice president of the\United States Golf Association, show that 140 starters are carded for this region, in- cluding 16 amateurs, Only 27 of these will survive for the tournament to be played on June 3-6 at Worcester, Mass., where they will meet the survivors of the Eastern and the Pacific elimination meets. s Among the amateurs entered are Bob Gardner, twice national amateur title holder; " Chick Evans, formerly national open and amateur chaml’flon Capt. E. F. Carter, once I am. pion: Eddie Held of St. Louis, frans- mississippi title holder, and Ira touch, formerly Western junior champion. Among - the leading professionals listed to start are Larry Nabholtz, Cleveland: Al Watrous, Grand Rapids; Alex Cunmingham, Toledo; Ray Derr, Otto Hackbarth, George Bowden and and \\ llrred Reid, Detroit; W. C. Gor- | don, ckford, II.; Bobby Cruick- Bhank a4 Willlam Creavy, Oklahoma City: George Sargent, Columbus, Ohio: Bill Melhorn, Bob MacDonald, Jock Hutchison anh Laurie Ayton, Chicago | John Rogers, Dayton: Jack Hendry, St. Paul: Harry Hampton and Gene McCarthy, Memphis;: John Black, Wichita, and Cralg Wood, Loulnme TWO GAMES SCHEDULED IN THE UNION LEAGUE \ | Washington Giants play their first game-of the Union ue semi-pro schedule today. The Teddy Bears will be encountered at South Capitol and P streets at 3:30 o’clock. The Le Droit Tigers take on the Oriental Tigers at the same field at 12:30. Virginia All:Stars and the St. Cyprians are expected to be ready for action next Sunday. In the opening league games of the season the Teddy Bears nostd out the Le Droit Tigers, § to 7, and later were defeated by the Orlental Tigers, 4 to 3. CHOATE CREW IN FRONT. DERBY. Con May 9.—The eight- oared crew of Choate School of Wal- lingford won the fifth annual Yale interscholastic regatta over a mile course on the Housatonic River here this afternoon. Culver Military Acad- emy of Culver, Ind., finished second, a length behind. The winners' time was 5 minutes 10 seconds. THL A are listed. play the Marines. In -fact, game on the Hilltop. ‘Washington and Lee, g Georgetown, Friday game with Maryland. after meet Park, West Virginia Wesleyan's nine will show its wares at Georgetown. .« Saturday Universi of Maryland stages a double biil. = The Johns Hopkins base ball team and the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania lacrosse 12 meet the Old Liners in those two sports on the field at College Park. Georgetown goes te West Point for a track meet with the Army and, as |has been said already, Catholic U. plays the Quantico Marines at Brook- land in base ball. lhmpden-flldmy College, which is to be represented here this week in base ball games with Georgetown and Maryland, is coached by Charley Bernler, & man who has been promi- nent in Southern athletics for vears. As a matter of fact, Bernier has one distinction few men possess—that of Yoluntarily léaving a big job with & big institution to take a smaller job with a small institution. Bernier be- gan his athletic career at Hampden- Sidney and went from there to Vir- ginia Polytechnic Institute. He was successful there and left- that school to take up duties -as director of athletics at University of Alabama. He was at Alabama for three years, and then decided that he had rather cast his lot with Hampden-Sidney and be back a multitude of things offered littie time for anything other than the job. So he left Alabama when the whole Alex Boss, Cincinnati: Dave Robertsonq9chool was anxious for him to remain, and he now is at Hampden-Sidney. again successful in his conduct of athletice on a high and square plane. Last week a paragraph in this column told how capable a pitcher was who was coming here with a pitcher landed Georgetown proceeded to wallpp the daylight out of every- thing he offered.” A little thing like that, though, i8 not, any more dis- couraging than it should be, o again a team bringing a fine pitcher here will be mentioned, Washington and Lee will have with it this week, to pitch against Georgetown or Mary- land, one of the two or three best college hurlers in the South. That pltcher is Lindberg, and he is said to be slated to join the New York Glants immediately after the close of the present college year. lefthander and has had enough pitch- ing experience that he would not be eligible under Southern Conference rules were it not that he was in college before the rules went into effect. dicated here last Spring. 16 to 0, but with Lindberg doing the hurling the following day it gave the Navy a trimming. Ly Tp judge by the activi of big league scouts, there seems to be a greater number of college ball players 281 n worthy of being watched than at any’ previous time in year: Hardly a college game is played that two or certain college team, and when said | Just how good he is was in- | Washington | jand Lee, with all its other pitchers on the slab, was beaten by Maryland, | da Hampden-Sidney College will be the first to appear shere, being duc to hook up in a ball game with Geofgetown. Vednesday Catholic University makes the journey to Quantico to the Brooklanders actually have two games with the Marines this week, a contest scheduled at Brookland some timc ago having been postponed to May’ 16, and Georgetown offer the only attra remains here for a|see what While | team has had a big ,|the Generals are playing at College in a job in which he was|organized happy than to continue in one where | i /| { Lindberg is a |day | 3avelin” throwing, hurdle TEN CONTESTS ON CARD FOR: VARSITY ATHLETES ' Bz‘se Ball, Lacrosse and Track Competifions Fill Sports Calendar for Five Days, Starting on Tuesday—Program Is Attractive. BY 'H. C..BYRD. IC contests of one kind or another are scheduled for colleges eyery day this weeks except tomorrow day at least one of the five institutions which play on local ficlds will meet an opponent in some branch of sport. local Beginning Tues- In all. 10 competitions it Saturday. Washington and Lee tion Thursday with a base ball three scouts are not in the stands to they can see. One coliege ue scout fol lowing it practically all season and another nine had a big league ivory hunter who followed it throughout its entire Southern trip. It is said that many of these college players are being approached financially while they still are in college and are mem bers of their college teams. Of the effect this kind of thing has on col lege base ball and its ultimate good the least said the better. GIRL RESERVE TEAMS TO CONTEST AT TENNIS The six clubs of the Girl Reserves dre going to compete for honors in a tennis tournament which will start tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 on the Y. W. C. A. courts at 1101 M street northwest. Each club is allowed two entries {and the girl winning final honors will have her name upon a cup, presented to the organization last year i Peterson, chairman of the g partment of the Y. W. A This cup was won last y 3 representative from Les Camarades Club of Eastern High School. The clubs entered in the event ar Les Camarades, Fidelis, Bon Secour.e Semper Paratae, Lealatad and a newly group from Tech High School. o FRESHMAN CLASS WINS TRINITY COLLEGE MEET The freshman class of Trinity Col lege won top honors in the annual school meet, held on the campus yes- terday. The sophomores and juniors tied for second place. The schedule of events included the broad “jump, high jump, discus and e, relay first and riding and jumps. A pair of spurs, presented to the best all-around rider, was won by May Devitt of the senior class VIRGINIA TECH SCORES. BLACKSBURG, Va., May 9.—While Virginia Tech va track men were taking a dual meet from North Caro- lina State College, 69 points to 57, to- V.. P. L freshmen captured a like engagement from the yearlings Washington and Lee by a 595 571-6 count YALE VICTOR AT POLO. CHESTER. Pa., May 9.—Yale de feated Penn Military at Polo here to second class PIMLICO SPRI G MEETIN . Jeaves Union ins on Pen isivania R. K. dnd W A. Electric Lin thlyuihnnum 4 Wm. Penn, you know