The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-18
ONE LEADER TALL, ONE SHORT.

4 picture Of ne two leader. Of ye,,er.
day standins side by side would be a mute
for al men. Barnes is almost as much
over SIX feet In height as Teller 1. over
nve. and It seems hard to realize that two
men ~ such differing types can excel at
the same game.
Barnes played both OF his rounds with
a clover blossom between his lips He
when he was an through he threw Il away
ana substituted a cigar, which he smoked
con;entedly As he watched his rivals hole
out on tho home green.
Although the open championship l.
primarily for tho professionals the spec
t'iors yestcrday seemed TO prefer to
OF the Srest American amateur r!umvir
ate, Oulme,. Trsyers and Evans. we're
traiied uy hug galleries al day LONG.
Evans attracted tho biggest. crowd in
really belong - him liz played so well
that he succeeded in stealing waiter
and for the remainder OF the morning
the champion played with only a handful
Of followers. champion defending his
rather unusual spectacle.
In the afternoon. however. II was Evans
who SAW his nCkle followers deserving him
10 watch some one else lie was going
sight and Il was learned that he was play
ingg 20 wei. his erowd ,o Of speS,Stor;
the two pygmies OF the links. Teller and
ben Sayers,
when Jerry rravers noled his put, for a
, on the seventeenth green in The after
Watching him gave him a great ovation.
Jerry is extremely. popular at Bal,usrol
and every good shot he played to-day
earned H. share Of applause. His > on
the eighth. followed by a . at the ninth,
delighted the crowd.
chick Evans did some OF his worst
work At the third in the afternoon. HIS
tee shot WAS IA trife short. and after
pitching over an intervening bunker TO
The green he proceeded TO take three
he now uses, and got a 5 for the hole.
John G. Anderson, who was left without
a partner by the luck OF the draw. played
all day with Paul Moore. of Morris
County and Baltusrol. For fear of beat
ing all the professionals, Moore didn't
hole out all OF his puts,
One OF the best shots Of the day was
played by clarence Hackney. the Atlantic
city professional, In the morning. lie
sliced his drive. from the eighth tee be-
hind a group OF cedars and was so close
to play over. lie not only played over
them. however, but landed The ball on the
in the day, Hackney was forced to with
draw because Of an injury.
At the sixteenth hole In the afternoon
Jack Hobcns hit one of the longest drives
OF the tourney. Evans got a good one.
but the Engiewood mans ball was fully
thirty-fve yards further on. Then
fobcns ioppeu us hecoHu INTO the water
hazard,
knowing the rules Is helpful every now
and then. George Mclean. the young
homebred from punwoodic, soled his club
In n road yesterday and by SO doing added
two penalty strokes to his score, which
he considered quite hish enough as 1t
was.
Oswald Kirkby began badly yesterday
by driving out Of bounds, He thought
that the ball was safe and didn't play
another before leaving the tee, so that
when he discovered 1t was out he had to
walk back 10 play another. In the mean
time, chick Evans had started with his
big gallery and for the remainder OF the
x, Mccarthy, spent much OF their time and
breath In yelling Fore" at the scurrying
spectators ahead,
Howard W. Perrin. one of the vice-presI-
dents Of the United States Golf Associa
ton, made his first appearance at Baltusrol
yesterday, lie left his ohice in Phila-
delphia at noon. and nj 3 O'Clock was hard
to keep the Evans gallery In order,
As Hagen walked up TO his ball on the
home green late in the afternoon Ouimef,
who was standing on the slope above the
green. said to a friend walter In going
to make that putt. ! can tell II by the
look IN his eye" II was a patti Of fully
nft.eh rect aud by no means easy. but
the omen champion f~inlled DE amateur
champions prediction by banging the ball
right into the cup, 1t gave Hagen "a
much needed 3. and a 70 for the round.
Ouimet's hest hole NJ the day was the
thirteenth In tho morning. Using an iron
for the 202 yard shot, he put the ball on
the green Within n ward OF the pin and
holed the putt for a ..