New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Vnrdon, Hutchinson, Burke and DiegeI
lie tor Second, a Stroke Behind Victor;
Hagen OutcIassed; Evnns Leads Amateurs
Bobby Jones Takes 900,
While the Dethroned
Champion Totals 800

passed Ray, leading him by stroke
compactly played mashie shot lief,
MN putt for at the short thir-
teenth, but even when he missed he
stood upon the fourteenth tee q stroke
to the good of the field.
This hole brought his disaster. His
drive. half topped, caught the plateau
rolled upon the fairway and left him
a 1ull brassle to a green he should
have reached with an easy mashie.
His brassie shot was hooked to a
trap and his niblick recovery left him
short OF the green. Failing to get dead
on his chip shot he took a six and
from one stroke in the lead fell back
OF Kay. par at either the fifteenth
or sixteenth would have saved the day
But he was short on his second coming
to the fifteenth and his iron shot, after
a flne drive, caught trouble in a tie on
the next hole. The four strokes that
ne lost to par on these three holes
wrecked his chance to win, after one
OF the gamest battles any young golfer
ever made to reach the top.
Hagen had no excuse. In a fine posi-
ton, tied with Ray and Vardon at the
morning start, he began badly and
never hit his stride. 1t was no longer
a matter of catching one man but of
beating out five veteran carnpaigners
Out IN Al, the open champion from last
year. saw that he was through He
lacked the old dash and confidence
which once helped to carry him through
and when his puts failed to drop in he
saw that his scepter was slipping.
Hutchinson Fights Hard
Jock Hutchinson fought hard to the
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championship from him and gave it tc
Ray In the morning round Jock was
IN the grassy side of trap within
thirty feet of the pin in two. He
pitched out to within IL feet of the
cup. His bid for a four overran tive
feet, and he needed six
On this same hole in the afternoon
Ray was short on his approach, but
using his putter, just the same he ran
down 40-footer for a 8. But golf is
full of such unexpected turns, and il
was Ray who made fewer strokes for
the 72-hole test, and this stands as the
answer. Throughout the day he puffec
serenely upo nhis pipe, whether in
trouble or straight down the fairway
and in his behalf it might be said tina,
ne missed q three-foot putt at the
eighth and putt of eighteen inches al
out in 80. So after these things ever
up destiny.
Ray, when he needed distance, was
thirty yards longer than any one else
and certainly no one in the field sanl
any larger number of missable putt.
from ten to forty feet. And after
watching him putt you could see tina
it was no matter of luck. The smooth
ness, ease and dizziness Of touch were
all there, with every putt truly strucl
upon the right line.
Evans Leads Amateurs
Chick Evans led the amateurs at 29S
with Bobby Jones stroke behind a
299. Both played sound golf. bu
neither found any luck upon the greens
Jones, after starting badly in the morn
ing round, played the last fourteen
holes in 4 under As, but this was his
tiral charge. Jack Burke's total of ID
was the best double round of the day
but his first thirty-siX holes left him {
bit too much to do.
Ray, by his victory, obtained revenge
for his defeat seven years ago ant
added to the British margin at golf
which is now almost complete. TIL,
tournament was run off in f1awles
style, WITHOUT hitch, and will go OF
record as one of the greatest cham
/ pionships every held.