New-York tribune., 1916-07-20
Briton Travels Over Links
at Van COrtlandt
Park in 276.
BOWLING AND LOVING
IN TIE FOR SECOND
Bob Macdonald Captures Fourth
Place, Followed by Hagen
and Doyle.
BY FRED HAWTHORNE.

Long jim Barnes, the to"erihs
Briton from the Whitemarsh Valley
Country Club, of Philadelphia, won the
professional golf tournament at Van
Cortlandt Park yesterday, but he had
to break worlds record to accomplish
the feat, his total for the seventy-two
holes of medal play being 276. This
led Jack Bowling, of Scarsdale, and
Elmer w. Loving, of Quaker Ridge, who
were tied for second place at 279, by
three strokes.
Fourth in the big field was brawny
Bob Macdonald, the good natured Scot
from Buffalo, with total of 28O, and
then came Walter Hagen, metropoli-
tan open champion, and Paddy Doyle.
of South Shore, both with cards OF
PSI. Gil Nichols, former holder of the
metropolitan open title, and JOCK
Hutchinson, the brilliant Scot from
Pittsburgh, finished in tie for ninth
and tenth places, the last Of the regu-
/ lar prize positions. 3,
An idea Of the pace maintained
throughout the tournament by the
leaders can be had when IT is stated
that those with scores of 2S7 or higher
did not finish in the money division.
Until Yesterday the record for seventy
TWO holes of medal play in tourna-
ment was held by Macdonald Smith, OF
| Greenwich, who had a total of 278 IN
the metropolitan open at ScarsdaIe IN
! 1914.
Chance for Macdonald.
For a time in the afternoon, when
Barnes began to show signs Of waver-
ing, after turning in a brilliant 81 IN
! his morning round, il looked as though
Bob Macdonald might catch and pass
/ his British rival. Barnes was missing
his puts with unusual frequency for
him. and was 36 at the turn. Coming
home he was even more erratic, need
/ ing 81 for the last nine, OF which
} "a strokes were taken on the hills.
/ This gave him 73, and some OF the
| lightning calculators who are always
| shopping about in the wake OF the
/ champions inquired il out that II Mac,
/ Donald. who had started the last round
five strokes in the rear Of the brlton
/ could get home in 81 he would WIN
/ first prize by a single stroke.
But Bob couldn't pull the trick, TAX
/ ing a 70 for his last round, and then
/ it was seen Barnes's grip on first place
could not be shaken, Bowling and Low
ing having already finished.
Barnes himself seemed satisted tnat
nobody would equal or better his score
for as he was walking to the clubhouse
TO change his clothes Alec Smith, OF
Wykagyl, called out: "Are you gong
to fill the cup, Jim? at the same time
Jerking his thumb over his shoulder
at the great silver cup that went 10
Barnes along with the $500 for hrst
place.
Doyle in Trouble.
On the 415-yard sixth Barnes, play
ing without a mistake, sank his putt
for a par after running thirty
footer dead TO the hole. But Doyle
was having all kinds of trouble, for
hooking his second to the woods 70
the left Of the green, he got in deeper
when his third shot hit tree trunk
and rcbounded. Paddy disappeared in
the depths Of the jungle and had TO
take two more before reaching the
green. although he clipped dead to the
flag from the rough and got his g..
The women in the gallery sighed
rapturously when Long jim sent ms
drive booming toward the oeNeh'H
green for fully 275 yards. Both were
on the green in two and took two puts
for their 4s-nothing startling, 70 be
sure. The short eighth was simple
3 for the pair. and then they went
to the long ninth, 483 yards. Doyle
drove first out Of bounds along the
railroad tracks and dropped another,
sending the second well TO the right IN
the long grass. Barnes was as straight
as a plummet for $50 yards and reached
the green with a grand iron shot and
got his 4, while Doyle needed s.
When the Briton sank long putt
on the tenth for a four the gallery
started to applaud Barnes quelled the
disturbance by raising warning
finger as Doyle waited 70 putt, and
halved in four. Over the pont TO the
eleventh both men needed three puts
/ for their fours, and for the rest or
/ the Journey it was the slowness OF the
greens and their variety that seemed
/ 10 bother both players.
On the thirteenth Barnes ran down
a beautiful twenty-footer, but on sew
/ eral others he wasted strokes after
playing beautiful golf right up to the
| green. On the seventeenth, after
driving green high, he threw away four
/ strokes before he sank the ball for a
five. and on the last hole, after being
lust short OF the green in one, he
| I-I .L~oa yoora Oat honp