Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1926, Page 20

SPORTS. THE EVENING - STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1926. SPORTS. Roland MacKenzie Will Reach Heights in Golf World in the Opinion of Experts WASHINGTON STAR “NEEDS | LITTLE MORE SEASONING” Called Greatest “Birdie”” Player and Longest Tee Shot Hitter in America—His Showing Abroad Declared to Be Astounding. BY BUNKER. EW YORK, August 13—Like Bobby Jones, Roland R. MacKenzie, the youthful Washington star, must serve his apprenticeship at tournament play before he can start collecting the highest honors of golfdom. This is the opinion of most veteran observers, and there is no rea- son for dissent. i However, when MacKenzie has been thoroughly seasoned he will be, like Jones, both a great match and a great medal player. Thus the ama- teur menace to the professionals’ prestige which has been maintained by Bobby for many years will grow as MacKenzie progresscs. He must be regarded as a future open title holder as well as prospective king of the amatéurs. Roland’s showing abroad, consid- ering that he is but 19, and has had only five years of golf, was astound- ing. Right now, due to the tre- mendous distance with which he hits, he is one of the greatest “birdic” plavers among the amateurs. Few rofessionals have the better of him in this regard. The Washington youth is a golfer from the heart out. His father, a goli enthusiast, would not allow him to take up the game until he was keen to play, which was when he was about 14. Freddie McLeod, the Washington veteran, former open champion, one of the finc characters of the game, took him in charge and fed his appetite for the sport. Roland’s love of the game and his appreciation of the honor shown him in being placed on the Walker Cup team were so keen that last Spring he dropped out of college in order to tune up his game for the cam- paign in England and give his very best for the honor of his country. Right now, MacKenzie hits the longest tee-shots in America. Leo Dicgel, who used to be located at Washington, tells me that when Ro- jd land was 16 or 17 he had a body sway, with the result that his tee- shots were apt to be either high or low. fault in great shape. Two or three vears ago Diegel and McLeod could give MacKenzie five or six holes with an even chance of beating him. But he improved so fast that in 12 months’ time they could give him only two holes. Occa- sionally he would beat them without a handicap. Washington for & match with youns |CLUB GOLF TEAMS WILL PLAY SUNDAY [acKenzie. “Well, Roland,” he said, Indlan Spring and Beaver Dam Club golf teams will meet Sunday the handicap?”’ *T think I'll play you even,' re afternoon in a team match over the course’ of the Indian Spring Club. Joined the youngster, explaining that he wanted a good workout because he expected to play in an exhibition with Tomy Armour and Johnny Farrell Capt. Basil Manly of Indian Spring hopes to lead his players to victory. 4 t two of the in- | season that took | the next day. Diegel Barely Beat Him. the place of the more formal affairs | which have been held over the last Leo won, but only on the last green | three years. | | ROLAND MACKENZIE. McLeod brought him out of that “how about and because his opponent missed four short putts during the afternoon. Later in the year—not long before the natfonal amateur championship— Diegel and Peter Jackson played Fred- die McLeod and MacKenzie in an ex- hibition match at Indian Spring, with the ground soft from an overnight rain. Now Diegel is a long hitter on soft ground, where lots of carry is needed; but in this match MacKenzie fairly. broke his back with his terriffic driv- ing. Off one tee Leo hit one which he never had surpassed. ““There's one drive that boy isn't go- Ing to pass,” he said to McLeod. McLeod smiled. As for Roland, he =mashed out a line drive that never seemed to rise more than 12 feet in the air. “He surely won't come close with that type of drive,” Diegel com mented. But when they came up to the balls MacKenzie was 35 yards in front. The youngster's game has been about 25 per cent better each year than it was the Summer before. Par- ticularly has his drive progressed. Thus he not only h: own up Diegel and other American professionals in distance obtained, but also that cele- brated Britisher, Archie Compston, who hits one of the longest balls of | the present day | | Plans for the playing of the annual | Fall invitation tournament of the Bannockburn Golf Club, to be held September 2 inclusive, have been arranged by the tournament commit- tee of the club. George J. Voight, the District and Middle Atlantic champion, won the tourney last year. | Middleton Beaman has been appoint- | ed chairman of a special committee to work with the green committee on the tourney plans. Other club tournament dates have | been arranged as follows: | August 13 to 20—72 holes medal play ugust 14 to 29, inclu- | - round for the cluh‘ ¢ A (14 and under) and class B (over 14), with match play rounds once a week thereafter. Seprember 1 to 30—Women's club champlonship, dates to be set by the woman competitors. September 22 to 25, Inclusive—Annual invitation tour- ney. October 3 to 30—Annual twoman team championshiy The Bannockburn tourney is one of | the two big events to be held during | the about shington. The | mateur cham- | pionship. to be plaved over the course of the Burning Tree Club in October. CHICAGO BOYS MEET | FOR TITLE ON LINKS| By the Associated Press. MacKenzie Outdrives Compston. Playing against Comps this Spring when A | the longest ball coming to | America, Roland outdrove the tall | Briton 30 yards off every tee There is an enormous advantage ac- | eruing to the player who obtain | the distance that MacKenzie gets, | particularly if he has his ball under | control. Tactics can be employed by him which are impossible for the or- | "CLI-YGo, Augnst 13.—Galfers fond gl i o {of pondering over the weird twists of ik Ohinstance; playing o match at | foutmament qucstions found & new Club with a young fellow whom we [ t4PIt of paradox for Friday the thir. i) Al Sinlth fMEcKenzie found | oo . nnabround of ithe Wiest: himself in difficulties at the finish, |T% Junior champlonship at Edgewater 2 . ‘e up, but he | g4ng prancis Ci hoth Chicagoans, let down & hit and the other man | Sne FFTANCES | sive Tound, despite the caught up with him at the eighteenth | et in Sl . e |fact that they were just under the They went on to the first hole, wire ‘\\'llll qua 1-(\-In;z scores 1uv.<(h|;\' T emeatines 20 fxis o ap - «i.‘.‘..‘fi rrtimzu‘»itT(“':;lfilux|i(w)f‘wm B parently is an easy par 4. but is | o ) not at all. It happens that the fair. o way is hog-backed, sloping of-bounds on the t, with sa on the right. The green is uffl. with a nasty slope at the rear. The average man would have h to play his tee shot efully, . ficing distance to position. But Mac- | ¢ 120 Kenzle swung into a terrific drive | (cn0er WAL that carried to the green and held! | godily He made a birdie 3 and won the |yior of match right then and there. onid on a day hitting | a . among the 32 and yet were matched in the | holes, sole vors of a field s from a dozen Mis- tes and Canada. iyweight southpaw, ves: s into the title r game on the k Lam- Alper pringfield, ist, with 7 His | | | than ity, he will be one of the most pop- | niar titleholders in the history the game. 1026 Has Championship Qualities. | Clar n:.mfi‘n d Alpert s;l\lll‘_\r: ;\\'or- winning the national amateur thim | 580 o | = 1 2 |rick of Toronto, one of the favorit time to lay low even the giants of | e Ciidisi | S e A M ena | TROUBLE FOR JONES disposition. He is a genuine sports- man from start to finish. When an | upon it that what he says he really | B¥_th Astorated means. Like Bobby Jones he would Em\(;“m\‘}{“{fii\‘{-‘n;{l- ¥ L e o i eelt take | Golf Club in New Jersey, (hr* self-effacing, he fs hound : o " . favorite at future tournaments. And |® _Course which will defy the, on finally climb che slaughts even of that marvel of the when he finally climbs to a cham- |} o "Bobhy Jones of Atlanta. i returning | “Several changes have been made Of | for the championship and the medalist T T |out have been set by ‘Bill Reekie, GUNN IN SEMI-FINALS. | Metropolitan amateur champion, 66. ABHEVILLE, N. C.. August 13 P | ¢ = 55 met Fred Eansor of Jacksonville, Fla., | yacht of her size has been completed | and Kayton Smith of Savannah, Ga., | by the 1l-ton schooner-vacht Prim. played Jack Butler, West Palui{rose IV. which.has arived at Fal- i Barl H. Blaik, former Army end and | A e e mmers of the I lopponents in the long game. | ing influence That comes Teom long | third-round opponent was Alex ( the amateurs. So he will be one of | the big features at Baltusrol. e o terma's moana teans| ON BALTUSROL LINKS the slightest advantage. | h A = nation ur championship will e et e re*,ad | be plaved next month. believes he has | plonship, as he & certain some day | “pp G PTE 30" a8 of trouble. to do, because he has that some- | ter. 3,428 going out | | therefore will establish a course rec Lo i lord. The figures for the present lay —Watts Gunn of Atlanta. member What is believed to be the fustest of the American Walker Cup team, | trip across the Atlantic made by a , Fla., in the semi-finals of the | mouth, England, after accomplishing 1n n_golt tournament of the|the vovage from Nantucket in 22 days Biltmo! re Forest Country Club here.’ 1 hour and 20 minutes. in Ohio, will join the University of BLAIK To HELP COACH Wisconsin foot ball staff this Fall as GRIDMEN AT WISCONSIN |cns cncn. e succeeds Chuck Carney, who ). | 80es to Harvard in a similar capacity. 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