Evening star., 1916-10-16
MANLY Wins TITLE
Defeats FaIes for Bannock-
burn Club Championship.
BOTH PLAYERS PUTT WELL

Basil NJ. Manly won the club cham
pionship of the Bannockburn Golf Club
in the thirty-six- hole final round yes
terday, defeating John C. Fales by 80
in an interesting struggle in which
Manly was at one time up. The
match turned out to be a battle on the
putting greens, as off the tee and
through the green the contestants
were very nearly even. Fales particu-
larly holed some great puts. but his
recovery work, while more brilliant
than that of his opponent, was not
nearly SO steady.
Manly won the first hole, SIS. and
lost the second. All square at the
sixth tee Fales' iron shot was to the
right, while Manly was short of the
green. The latter was short on his
run-up, while Fales was over. Manly
then holed thirty-foot putt to win
the hole when Fales missed for hale.
Manly won the seventh with 5. the
eighth with 5 and lost the ninth
4--5, Fales' niblick third shot from the
rough to the left of the green nearly
holing out. The ninth and tenth were
halved. Both played the eleventh bad
ly, Manly winning, Is. Fales bungled
up the short thirteenth. which Manly
won with d 5. putting him up. Manly
20 be 5 up ut the turn. Fales won the
nineteenth with a ten-foot putt. halvsd
the twentieth and won the tWenty-hrst
by sinking putt from the edge OF
the green. Fales then won the twenty
second hole with q B, to reduce Man1ys
lead to two holes. but on the next hole.
after playing badly al the way to the
green, Manly ran down long putt TO
win the hole 4-5. Again Manly got
a par on the sixth hole the twenty
Il tl,a frh al Dni h iS
run-up shot for a 2. The long twenty
fifth was halved in 6. FaIes won the
twenty-siXth and twenty seventh, to
be 2 down starting the last nine holes
The twenty,eiehth was halyed. On the
twenty ninth both balls lay on the
green below the hole. with a double
slope to negotiate. Fales trimmed the
cup on his twenty -footer. while Manly's
ball dropped, putting him UP. The
next hole was haived. and Manly won
the next, when his opponent sliced to
! an impossible lie on the hillside. The
loss Of this hole made Fales down
and to play, but he won the next
by holing thirty-foot putt for 4.
Manly dormie up. Both played the
final hole badly. halving it in Z.
Manly winning the match, S-2.
over Jock Hutchinson in the final of
the first tournament given by the new
ly organized pro golfers association
gives Barnes an undisputed right to
first place among the professionals of
the year. Although Walter Hagen has
won two important championships.
Barnes record taken as whole is
superior to that of the Rochester play
er. The big plum of the year. the
open championship, was carried off by
an amateur and this precludes any
basis for comparison here, although
Hutchinson was second and Barnes
third, with Hagen seventh.
There will be no question as to the
right of Jock O. the Hutch to be rank
ed third, for the ability of a player who
is runner-up in the two biggest events
of the year cannot be underestimated.
And in addition to that it was only
a putt, coming after a bit of hard
luck on the thirty fifth hole of his fina 1
match with Barnes. which beat him
Hutchinson's ball just trckled Off the
edge of the seventeenth green, the thir-.
ty-ffth of the match, and he lost the
lead which he had enjoyed since the thir-
ty-second hole Starting for the home
green all square, both men We're forty
feet from the pin in 3. Hutchinson putted
to within five feet of-the hole and Barnes
was the same distarce. the referee being
asked to decide which man would play
first. Hutchinson was little away and
his wayward ball just stayed outside
| Then. it was up to the tall Cornishman
Hutchinson ball lay just an inch to the
right of the line which would have made
a stymie, so Barnes was forced to Craze
his opponents ball
This he did. the putt winning him $500
the diamond championship medal and
custody for year of the Rodman Wana-
maker cup.
The Columbia Country Club invitation
tournament begins Thursday with the
qualification round. Entries for the event
close tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock.
The privileges of the course will be ex-
tended to those who intend to participate
in the tournament, beginning today.
The Pennsylvania open championship
starts today over the course Of the Oak
mont Country Club of Pittsburgh, with a
large field entered. Among the promi-
nent pros on hand for this event which
is the last big championship of the year.
are Jim Barnes. Walter Hagen Robert
Mcdonald, James Donaldson and Jack
Burgess of the Chevy Chase Club, for
merly of the Pittsburgh Country Club
Burgess left last Saturday for Pittsburgh
PLANS FOR MEMORIAL FUND