New-York tribune., 1919-06-11
Hagen, Teller and Bow
den in Tie at ISL;
Evans Wastes 3 Puts
BY Grantland Rice


WEST NEWTON, Mass, June 10
Seotlan.'s gray and ghostly mists lifted
from the Brae Burn hills and moors
to-day ard in tho June sundrift that
dried OFF and quickened up the green's
the putter piled its ancient trade, back
and fo.th and back again. Missed puts
from seven inches to brace Of feet
featured the second round. but Of this
ppssicg furry at least thirteen re-
mained with a good chance left to
reach the lofty peak by Wednesday
night.
With the second days play completed
for the open championship, Michael
Brady, of Oakley led the field by two
strokes, with the first thirtysiS holes
behind him. Mike overnauled young
Charlie Hoffner with another fine IA
and on Wednesday morning starts his
final 36-hole assault with 148 chalked
against his ancient Irish morrickcr.
Hofner, with 78 settled into sec
ohd place just back of Brady. His so
leaves him one stroke beyond Walter
Hagen, Louis Teller and George Bow
den, who are now seda.ely poised at
Isl. Two strokes further to the rear
come Chick Evans, the present cham
pion; Tommy Mcnamara, the demon
runnerup, and John Cowan, another
Boston product.
Hutchinson Has 154
Then follows Jock Hutchinson, the
hope of Scotland, at 154, a stroke be-
yond Francis Ouimet, jim Barnes, AL
exander Ross and Freddie Mcleod, who
at 155 are only seven strokes back of
Brady's pace-setting mark Out cf
chese first thirteen there are six home
breds, three Scots, two amateurs, an
Englishman and a Frenchman in the
grand international final, which, unless
there is tie, will take place Wednes-
day afternoon.
The home-breds have the call with
is slight margin at Brae Burn over SO
holes. At the end of the second day a
decided change had beset the field.
Brady alone maintained his even,
steady pace. Hoffner, Bowden and
Teller fell back, while Walter Hagen
and Tommy Mcnamara, playing brill
liant golf, raced forward to FIJI the gap.
Chick Evans, the present open and
amateur champion, had a magnificent
round up to the green's, where on the
last mine holes alone he wasted three
puts on less than five greens. Chick
never played better up to the battling
slopes and drifts of the green. He
made but one bad shot, short pitch at
the short sixth, but after he had taken
three puts on the seventh he began to
blow the two and three footers with his
old abandon. Jock Hutchinson PLAYED
about as Chick did, great golf until he
came within few metres of the cup.
Francis Ouimet, on the contrary, had
to fight for rickety TO- His wooden
play was erratic, with a bad hook
featuring his tee Shots. His iron play
was far from deadly, and even on the
green's he was none too sure of getting
down in 2.
Ouimet's game to-day was we'll below
his old standard, and unless he braces
up will find it hard to finish among the
first eight or ten. Jim Barnes, the tall
and stately Englishman, is another star
who is battling hard to keep within
sight of the 6eld.
Four Men Now Favored
AS the situation stands with final
SO holes to travel, Brady and Hagen
loom the favorites, with Tommy Nc
Namara and Chick Evans crowding
both close.
Mcnamara to-day missed four puts
of les sthan three feet, and this type of
putt for him is usually as sure to drop
as bull market after bad news. But
for this sudden upset to his putting
the stocky me-bred, who has ham