Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-31
BARNES AND HAGEN TIE
FOR "MET" GOLF TITLE

NEW YORK. July 31.-A golf ball
that misbehaved on the seventy-sec-
ond green of the metropolitan open
championship yesterday at Greenwich,
treacherous little white pill that,
instead of rolling straight for three
feet veered off and circled around the
cup. robber Walter Hagen of the title,
at least temporarily, and put him in
tie with his lean, lanky persistent
rival. Jim Barnes. That missed putt
deadlocked the great pair. each hav-
ing totals of 292. They are meeting
today in the eighteen-hole play-off.
j. Douglas Edgar of the Druid Hills
Club, Canadian open champion. finish
ed in third place. with a score of 296.
while Willie Macfarlane of the Hemp
stead Club, who also threatened until
near the end. was fourth with 297.
Starting the final round of thirty
six holes five strokes behind the
methodical and steady Barnes, Hagen
had been counted out of the running
by most of the followers. But he
pulled himself together. as is his
wont when pressed, and shot a 50 for
the morning round, equaling Barnes
record made on the first day. That
putted poorly in the morning and
took Is.
Barnes Has His Turn.
However, it was Barnes turn in the
afternoon. He did all of the wonder
full putting. while Hagen fell down
on several easy puts and was unfor-
tunate on several others.
Coming to the last hole, the cham
pion needed four on a par four hole
to win He made good drive and
planted a high mashie shot on the
edge Of the green for his second. He
ran his third to within three feet of
the pin and apparently had clinched
the title. But it was not to be won
as easy as that His third shot had
rolled into a heel print on the green.
Hagen took his stance for what
looked like the last stroke as the
crowd stood silent and breathless.
Hagen swung his putter. The ball
rolled slowly toward the cup dipped
into the edge and skidded past.
The outstanding feature of Barnes
round in the morning was his failure
to sink puts of reasonable length. He
missed at least seven that were count
ed as good as in.
On the other hand, Hagen. once
started. went like gale. After a
paratively poor beginning he
swung into stride by holing a twenty
fve-foot putt on the ninth green.
Then he went to the tenth tee. drove
twenty-five yards beyond the pin and
sank that putt. Next he got birdie
three on the eleventh with two beau
tiful shots that put him within eight
feet Of the hole. He also made the
twelfth in three with a good putt.
And then Hagen showed some of
those brilliant shots that have made
him famous. His drive on the thir-
teenth left him lie in the rough back
of a tree. He scarcely had room
enough to swing his mashie, but man
aged to make wonderful recovery
that carried to trap in front of the
green. From here he made another
superb recovery and got his par five
On the fourteenth he repeated the per-
Torrance. He hooked his drive TO the
other fairway. put his second into
trap. but came out SO nicely he got
another par five.
Barnes got off to a woeful start in
the afternoon. But, once settled into
that steady stride of his, there seemed
no stopping the attenuated one. He
sank an eight-footer on the seventh
twenty feet on the tenth for a par
after coming out of trap
Runs Down Thirty-Foot Putt.
On the fifteenth Barnes made a
birdie with a putt of seven feet He
to keep in the running when
he dropped a putt of eight feet on the
seventeenth green. and finally on the
eli eighteenth hole he ran down putt
of thirty feet from the edge of the
green, which gave him birdie and
a II for tie score.
Meantime Hagen was encountering
the hardest kind of luck with his
puts. He Tipped the cup at least
half dozen times, and miscued on sew
eral treacherous little taps of from
two to four feet.
Hagen's only mistake on the fair
way in the afternoon occurred on the
fifth hole. Here he drove trap, and
in coming out the ball struck the edge
of the green and stopped short. In ad