Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-11
BARNES QUITS
RED CROSS PLAY
FOR BR0hDMOOk
Western Open Champion Rest.
ing from Patriotic Cam
paign as Professional
on Colorado Club.

Big Jim Barnes, who gave goli
ball longer ride than any other fol-
lower of Scota's fascinating pastime,
has no ear for challenge these days.
After seven months of strenuous COM
petition, including tournament play on
the southern courses and Red Cross
matches played throughout the east
and middle west he is now at Colo
rado Springs, nursing badly calloused
hands and giving overstrained nerves
a vacation.
Barnes is not loafing, however. He
has taken up his duties as playing
professional and instructor at the
Broadmoor course, formally opened
this month and the feature attraction
of the new Broadmoor hotel. The
giant Cornishman, who knows all the
shots in the bag and few more for
good measure, is now content to play
few practice rounds every week on
course that is splendid test of his
uncanny proWess with wood and
iron.
Western Open Champion.
Barnes comes to the Broadmoor
Country club with the title of west
ern open champion, which he won in
the 1917 classic, played on tho West
moreland course at Evanston, III. His
score of 2S3 for the u holes is the 3.
lowest ever made in a title tourna-
ment played over course of cham
pionship length-6,000 yards or more
This was. the second time that
Barnes captured the western open,
winning this event with a score of
2o3 in 1914, when the event was staged
at the Interlachen Country club of
Minneapolis.
According to the leading critics,
Barnes is one of the three premier
professional golfers of America, the
other members of the honorary trium-
virate being Jack Hutchinson of Glen
view and Walter Hagen of Oakland
Hills. They are given this high rank
ing primarily because of their con-
sistent play.
Wonderful Driver.
While Barnes is internationally
famous as a powerful driverS some
times making shots off the tee that
travel $50 yards, he also plays won
derfully effective short game. His
towering height is tremendous asset
in his work with the wooden clubs,
while his timing and snap are perfect.
He combines, however, accuracy with
great distance-two requisites of par
scores or better.
Barnes driving power and accuracy
with the irons was very clearly
demonstrated in his wonderful first
round in the 1917 western open cham
pionship. He brought in a card of 81
and was off the course only three
times in the 1S holes.
Wins Western Title.
At the second hole, 404 yards, he
was in trouble at the right of the
green, but got four Notwithstanding.
At the 18th, after a drive of 325
yards, he sliced his mashie shot into a
trap but scored a FIVE. His two at
the fourth was obtained by hollng q
chip shot. and at the eighth, his tee
shot reached the green and he holed
the six-foot putt, demonstrating he
was strong in all departments OF the
game.
Barnes score for the four rounds
was 283, five strokes less than the par
of the course. Hagen and Hutchinson
pushed him closely with 2S5 and 28t
respectively, but Barnes played bott
steadily and brilliantly all through anG
was decidedly the favorite for the
title, though the field was the largest
and finest in the history of the west.
ern championship, due possibly to tn.
fact that the national championship
had been Cancelled by the U. S. G. A..
SO the western for 1917 represents the
greatest golfing event IN the United
States for the year.