Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-22
HAGEN new GOLF CHAMPION
Rochester. N, Y, Professional Bears
Off the Open Title.
HIS FIRST sPIURGE INTO FAME
Makes It Medal score OF 200 for
the Ta-Hoir Finals, Just one
stroke Better Than Charles
Evans, Jr.

Evans Jrs
CHICAGO Aus. H.-Walter q. Hagen,
"a years old, native professional Of Roch-
ester, ~ y, today won the open goh
championship Of America with a medal
score % 200 for the seventy-two-hole finals
over tho Midlothian course, Just one
stroke better than Charles Evans, IT.
western amateur champion, Evans out
played the whole field in a spectacular
finish that electrified the long gallery
which had followed Francis Ouimet, last
years champion, until he failed taking
sss for the seventy-two holes
ItaEon played excellent golf today, but
not so good by seven strokes as Evans
who made two rounds Of Il and 20, de-
spite several missed puts for 141, the
best double round made during the tour
namont. Par for the e.421-ysrd course is a
20, Hagen yesterday made a record Of
IS for the course by good long work
aided by spectacular putting. He took
"a In the afternoon, leading the field at
the end OF the first day with 142 Today
Hagen fell off q trifle. taking 70 for the
first round and 70 for tho second. The
best OF his same today came on the last
nine holes, where he made So two under
par.
Evans ore Game.
Evans had been Off his game sNcause
Of wrenched ankle, which seemed to
bother his putting more than his long
work and irunE.
The western amateur title holder barely
qualified with los. Hagen took 152 in the
elimination round, while Ouimet the title
holder, playing evenly, took las,
Ifr-I,N L. rival A~rs.
rounds OF the finals. but his score Of
&c, "a, 100 was five strokes behind ouimet,
the Massachusetts amateur, having made
60, 76. it5 and eight strokes worse than
Hagen, who led tho scores for the first
thirty-siX holes with IS, "a, 142.
Ouitnet fell off slightly today, taking
10, rs, 153 while Hagen slumped TO rs, rs,
les. Evans made the first round In II,
driving long and approaching IN u spec
t7euiar manner. lie missed puts with
considerable regularity, however, but
kept gaining on Hagen until he was
within one stroke at the end Of sixty
three holes. lie could not overhaul tho
young professional, who had sprung into
Game for the first time, for the Rooh-
estor man scored a splendid % on tho last
nice, holins putt after putt, tovHns, hot
on the heels OF Hagen, was surrounded
by 1000 persons shouting 10 tho western
champion to win.
MIsaas Thrae short rats.
Evans responded with all tho ghfrsa ok.
eept putting. Ills tee shots SPAWNED soma
SOo yards Of the fair way nearly every
time. his irons were nearly all pspfeet
but in those last nine h6isH he missed
three short puts and had no iueE with
long ones he finally dPbVs the edge Of
tho eighteenth green, TT yards and had
left one putt for half with Hagen,
The spectators stood ON tiPtee willis
Evans tried the thirty-feet putt, lie
missed by a foot and tho open chamRieR-
ship went to HaReH,
Cuinet lost the title with graceful
equanirrlity, straIiinR about tho lawn with
another lad. humfning q ivsiy tuhs, lie
had no fault to find, no said, lie had
fallen off his game, as others had done
before,
lie won tho tito last year at Brookiins,
tieing with Harry Vardon and Edward
Ray. British professionals, at 3o4, In the
play-off Ouimst rads " to Vardon's Il
and Rays 70.
Hagen. the new champion. was born in
Rochester. learned his golf there and had
not made any record outside his native
city until the present tournament. He is
slight in bald but follows Vnrdon's sys-
tenn OF shooting straight for the flag all
% the time.
McNamnru Falls OFF.
Tom Mcnamara, who had played the
most consistent golf Of the meet. scoring
p, Il and rs for the first three rounds.
besides 145 in the elimination, fell off
badly this afternoon. taking SO for the
last round and finishing out OF the money
with SO2.
George Sargent Of Chevy Chase, cham
pion IN 1903. when he scored 80 at Engle-
wood, tied with Fred Mcleod OF Wash
ington. ID. c.. for third place.
. NJ. ]. Brady of wollaston and James
Donaldson OF Glenview club. Chicago, tied
with ouiniet for third prize. Louis Teller
OF Canoe Brook club. Summit. N. j.. for
Tnsrly open champion of France, was
fourth best with 800, while J. ]. McDer-
mott of Atlantic City, twice champion,
and Arthur Smith OF Columbus, O., closed
the list OF prize winners with 300 each.
new amateur expert, William Rauten-
busch, OF Chicago, attracted attention by
scoring BOT. just outside the ten prize
winners. He learned his golf on a nine
hole public links that has no bunkers
plays iBfrequently and had never seen the
Midlothian course until he started in the
present tournament Ills rounds were rs,
Is, "a and 10, The next best amateur was
Warren X, Wood formerly western cham
f7l0h, who scored s05.