The sun., 1919-09-20
BARNES VS.. M'LEOD
ENTER GOLF FINAL
VIII Meet To-day in Deciding
Round Of Professional
Title Tourney.
TO PLAY SO HOLE MATCH
Mclean and Macdonald Are
EliBinated in Semi
Finals.
~ INyIs BROWN.

stationed at the Sunset Hills Country
Club In St Louis. VIII battle through the
Anal round OF the professional golf
championship with Freddy Mcleod. the
swart little Scotchman who instructs in'
tho art Of the niblick and mashie at the
Columbia Country Club of Washington
at the Engineers Country Club to-day.
These two have weathered the buffets
OF the four rounds Of play now past.
Barnes subdued Bob Macdonald of
Indian Hill, Chicago, in the semi-final
yesterday. and {. Mcleod toppled over
George Mclean of Great Neck. 3 and 2.
McLeods victory was something Of a
surprise to many since Mclean had been
playing the best golf of the tournament
up until yesterdays match. He played
good golf then. for that matter. but not
good enough to win. Through the fair
ways he had something Of an edge, but
once on the greens Mcleod putted him
right out OF the tournament
Neither played especially brilliant golf
m the forenoon Mcleod scored q ~.
allowing for a few approximations. while
Mclean scored 40. standing down at
the finish Of the round. There had been
but Mcleod was the master there. Then
on the afternoon round he got his put
ter working in master fashion and Nc
Leans best efforts to save his bacon
went for naught.
This is the story of their second round
and It shows how Mclean not only failed
10 chop away his handicap OF the fore
noon but also suffered the loss Of an
other hole in the total for the second
eighteen. Three puts on the first green
lost the hole for Mclean at the start OF
the match He topped his drive on the
third and that also went to Mcleod
The score in each case was 4 to 8.
Mclean Takes Two.
Mclean got even on the next two. On
the 405 yard fourth. he laid a mashie
niblick dead for his second and holed a
=. Both were OFF the course going to the
9th, Mclean to the right and Mcleod
10 the left The latter was out very
short and took four to reach the green.
Mclean won 8 TO 6. They halved the
next three In As Mcleod took the ninth,
to 9. 70 finish one up, when Mclean
Tell short on his third shot and took two
puts after getting on.
This was the start OF a four hole run
OF victories for Mcleod. He won the
tenth In 3. when Mclean sliced to a trap
from the tee. On the 40s yard eleventh,
he laid his second within three feet Of
the cup. and registered a bird .. Nc
Lean didn't get up to the green on his
second going to the twelfth and Mcleod
won, 4 to 8.
A lost bali at the thirteenth cut Nc
Leod's winning streak. Mclean scored
a par TO win. He got the short four
teenth, when Mcleod rolled over the
Int h.Vwrl rTsI.
next, and Mclean scored another win
on the sixteenth to cut McLeod's lead 10
one hole. This time Mcleod was handi-
capped with a bad drive, and lost, to
4. The seventeenth netted a pair of Az
McLeans drive for the home hole was
rather bad. and his long brassie second
rolled across the green into trap. Nc
Leod won. to 5. finishing up.
Getting away for the second round.
Mclean took the FIRST, when Mcleod
topped his drive, was short on his sec
and and played his third over the green
into the rough. The next was halved
in uneventful IS. Then Mcleod sprang
the premier of his fine putting streak.
He holed a ten foot try to win the third
in ,. Short of the green on his second
for the fourth, he was some fifteen feet
away on his third, but holed his putt to
halve In d.
Mcleod Holes Long One.
lie got half In Is on the fifth.
when Mclean missed four foot trial
for 4. McLean's second was only a
few feet from the cup on the sixth. with
Mcleod Mt the far edge of the green
uphill. He dribbled the ball in to hold
Mclean even. Mcleod won the seventh,
4 to 5, when Mclean trimmed the cup on
his fourth shot. The eighth was halved
in As. Mclean hubbed his third going
TO the ninth, and Mcleod won, to 6,
becoming 4 up.
Mcleod was short on his tee shot for
the tenth. while Mclean caught a trap.
But Georges out left him only few feet
away, and he holed his to win. He
followed with a sliced tee shot for the
eleventh. which landed behind tree
and forced him TO play straight out into
the fairway. He was short with his
third, and Mcleod was an easy winner.
to 6.
An Grant tee shot got Mcleod into
trouble going TO the twelfth Like his
opponent on the previous hole, he was
forced TO play straight out from behind
a clump OF bushes tbs third failed to
reach the green. and Mclean reversed
the figures ON the previous hole. The
thirteenth produced a pair of 1--WE, when
both failed to hold the green on their
seconds.
The short fourteenth went to Mcleod.
Both held the green on tee shots, but
after Mcleod barely missed holing a ff-
teen foot putt for a Mclean missed his
third, losing to 3. He then stood 4
down with as many TO play. He scored
a TO win tho fifteenth when Mcleod
purposely played his second safe and
took 3. When they halved the sixteenth
the match ended.
barnes Turns I'm 20.
Jim Barnes brought in a round OF rs
Macdonald The latter got the second
in when he dropped a long putt from
the edge OF the green Barnes retaliated
by sinking a twelve foot effort for a
winning 3 on the fourth. Barnes took
the NTH In s, when Macdonald picked |
up. Long Jim also took the eighth IN |
when Macdonald missed a two foot
putt for q half. Following a sliced tee
shot Macdonald failed TO get on with
his third for the ninth and Barnes also
won that. TO 9. leaving him Q up.
Barnes dropped the eleventh. when he !
took three puts after both had gotten |
on In 2. A brilliant mashie nibllck sec |
ond left Barnes a five foot putt which I
he holed TO win the twelfth In 8. The
next was halved. and Barnes took the !
fourteenth TO also. MacDonald's tee /
shot rolled over into a tran. A moor
drive gave Barnes a handicap at the ar !
teenth ana he lost, 70 4 MacDonaId