Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-22
.HAGEN'S EVEN Play
LEADS TO VICTORY
Rochester Golfers Steadiness
Results in Capture of Amer.
lean Open Title.
EVANS ONE STROKE AWAY

CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 22.-walter C.
Hagen, a young Rochester, N. Y.
professional, has displaced Francis
ouimet as open golf champion of
America, through his victory In the
tournament which ended at Midlo-
THAN yesterday. Hagen won the
title with a medal score of 29O for
the seventy-two holes. Ouimet fell
off in his play and took total of
29s.
1t fell to the lot of Charles n
Evans, 1r., Western amateur cham
pion, who was hampered by
wrenched ankle, to furnish the chief
opposition to Hagen. Evans electri
fed the gallery yesterday by making
two rounds in Il and 70, and finished
with POI, a total of just one stroke
behind the new champions score.
Evans's total yesterday was the best
double count of the tournament,
open champion in 1909, when he scored
290 at Englewood, tied with Fred Nc
Leod, of Washington, d. c., for third
honors with 297.
Hagen's victory was accomplished
by steady, even playing. Thursday
he made record of 68 for the course
by good work, aided by spectacular
putting. He took IA in the afternoon
round, leading the field at the end OF
the first day with 142. Yesterday he
fell off a trifie, taking rs for the first
round and 70 for the second. The
best of his game came on the last
nine holes, where, holing putt after
putt, he made 35, two under par.
The new champion was born in
Rochester, learned golf there and had
not made any record outside his ma
tive city until the present tourna-
ment. He is slight in build, but fol-
lows Harry Vardon's system of shoot
ing straight for the flag all the time.
Tom Mcnamara, of Boston. who
had played the most consistent golf
of the meet, scoring 72, II and rs for
the first three rounds, besides las in
the elimination, fell off badly yester-
day afternoon, taking SO for the last
round, and finishing out of the money
with 302.
M. j. Brady, of Wollaston, and
James Donaldson, of Glenview Club,
Chicago. tied with Ouirnet for fourth
prize. Louis Teller, of Canoe Brook
Club, Summit, formerly open cham
pion of France, was fifth best, with
29e, while J. J. McDermott, of Allan
tic City, twice champion, and Arthur
Smith, of Columbus o.. closed the
list of prize-winners with 300 each.
new amateur expert, William
Rautenbusch, of Chicago, attracted
attention by scoring 301. just outside
the ten priZe-winners. He learned his
golf on a nine-hole public links that
has no bunkers, plays infrequentiy,
and had never seen the Midlothian
course until he started in the present
tournament. His rounds were 76 rs,
rs, Is. The next best amateur was
Warren K. Wood, formerly Western
champion, who scored 305
Joe Mitchell, of Upper Montclair,
turned in a final total of 302, while r,
M Thompson. of Glen Ridge. ac-
counted for 307. Jack Jolly, of New.
ark, was credited with a total of 315
for the seventy-two holes.
schmidt's Record Equaled
MAPDEWOOD, N. H, Aug. a.
Golfing circles had something to talk
about here yesterday. when Appleton
Gregory, of Albany. equaled Heinrich
Schmidt's record for the course, a SO,
which Is over par. The score was
made under the worst of conditions,
amid a pouring rain, which rendered
the turf most soggy. Gregory went
out in "a, or one over par, securing
five tours. three threes and Ave,
one of the three being made on the
ninth hole, $50 yards in length. The
inward journey was very sensational.
being played in par. F. H. Bailey,
Braeburn, by defeating P. I. Badge,
Maplewood, 2 and 1, won the Presi--
dents Cup. ]. ]. Hennessy, Maple
wood beat M ID. Fink St Andrews