The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-12
HAGEN AGAIN WINS
LOCAL GOLF TITLE
Takes Metropolitan Honors
With 294 for ~ Holes
Betters Course Record.
BY INNS BROWN.

Walter c. Hagen of Oakland Hills.
Detroit, national open champion, lost
little time In brushing away the six
strokes handicap left to him in Thurs
days play to overtake the leaders and
win the twelfth annual Metropolitan
Golf Championship at the North Shore
Country Club yesterday with q grand
total Of 29+ strokes for the 10 holes Of
play. He cantered home three strokes
ahead OF Emmett French of York. who
finished in second place with 2s7. Char
lie Hoffner Of Philmont. who led through
Thursday. took third place with 299. No
other finished as good as 500.
Not only did Hagen win by a margin
OF three strokes. He also lowered the
course record. He equalled the record
In the morning round with ~ and came
back In the afternoon with q II. He
was well on his way to beating 10 in
the afternoon until he slipped at the six
teenth hole. For the first time in the
afternoon he had a 81, two strokes under
par He got the next six in even par
figures. A hooked tee shot at the six
teenth took him into the woods. and he
could do no better than a 6. Further
trouble on the eighteenth cost him a g..
which he got by boiling a single putt
after being IN trouble all the way to the
green.
Charlie Hoffner, who led the start to-
day. dropped back after the morning
round. He scored a 7s. This allowed
Emmett French. who had finished In
second place the day before. to jump
into the lead with his 76. Hagen, five
strokes behind French in the morning.
finished one behind him for the morn
ing round. He overlook French on the
second hole of the afternoon round. when
he scored q bird 3 against Emmets par
4. On the fourth Hagen scored another
''birdie", q I. against French's par 5
and took the lead. He was never headed
from there out.
Haaen's Play Brilliant.
Hagens play was little short Of phe-
nornenal at times In the morning round
he threw a distinct shock into his gal
lery with his playing of the sixteenth
hole. This IL the longest hole on the
course. SOL yards distant with an elbow
calculated to make II a strictly two
wooden club shot hole. Yet Hagen drove
from the tee with an iron and then fol-
lowed up with another iron shot that
landed him on the edge of the green.
Doubtless II was over ambition that
led him into trouble there in the af-
ternoon round. He attempted to pull
a long drive close along the edge OF
the trees, and we'll down into the
straightaway to the green. from where
he would have a shorter shot to the
green, with the possibility of so placing
his hall as to have a putt for a 3. He
miscalculated slightly. and the ball
struck some leaves and dropped dead
into trap.> He was forced TO play
straight out into the course. and couldn't
reach the green on his third
Hoffner, who led THE field for the
two rounds on Thursday. chucked away
his lead with a round of 10 in the
morning. on badly with a on tho
irst hole. he took SS going out. His
return trip was more costly. The
eleventh and twelfth holes carried him
over par. but he committed his most
serious blunders on the fifteenth. where
he took 7 against par OF 4, TIL
half Of the round cost him Al strokes.
Emmett French put up a good game
fight, but his pace was hardly fast
enough to keep step with Hagen. He
did the first nine holes in the morning
in 81 and hettered that with a 36, par
figures, in the afternoon. But as on
Thursday the second half proved more
trying for him. BY way OF showing his
consistency. on Thursday he shot 3S
on tho second nine for both rounds Yes
terday he totalled SO for this nine on
each round.
Willie MacFarlane. who landed
fourth money. turned off "a for the
morning round. and landed In a tie with
George Mclean at that point in the race.
Gardiner S. White of Nassau finished
far ahead of the other amateurs. He
had rounds of "a and 49, beating his
total OF 155 for Thursday by three
strokes.
Tho scores by holes Of the leaders fol-