New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-12

canny assaults upon the menacing rar
Jock had & - yesterday. To-da,
national open championship he not
record by two strokes, but if a mum
six to ten feet that jazzed around t
have turned in 63.
In this second round he reduced the
complications of golf to this simple
little problem-drive 275 yards every
time straight down the middle, flip
mashie shot to within SIX or ten feet
OF the cup ard then take either a 8 or
4. That's about all there was to his
game.
Il ne had been putting to-day as he
was on Tuesday he would have been
out in 2S and back in 81 for a very
creditable g. Very, And all this time
Ted Ray, Walter Hagen and other
stars were struggling to qualify at SIS,
fourteen strokes higher than the lik-
able. hard-hitting, inspired Jock.
Holds Western Title
Jock won the Western championship
last week He has led the field in the
big qualifying test this week, five
strokes better than the next man. If
ne can Gl.F EQ-G SiilS t44StNt pli6HlOEi
OF inspiration within his bubbing soul
for two moro days he Will be the next
open champion Of the United States
Can he hold it that long? Who
knows? One is haunted by this golden
phantom Of super~gOlf to-day, and to-
morrow the dread ghost Of failure
sometimes takes its place.
In Hutchinson's case the inspiration
might easiy last, for he Is now play
ing every shot suPerbly from the tee
70 the cup--slashing mighty drives
down the middle Of the fairway and
then sticking that backspin mashie
shot Of his with a slight hook up to
within few yards or q few feet Of the
cup.
And it viii take inspired golf to win
from this feld-certainly the finest
that ever qualified for the open cham
pionship of America and one OF the
finest that ever qualified anywhere
else A total of 159 was sufficient to
it wasn't nearly good enough TO get in
here, where youngsters and veterans
were fighting for each stroke as if their
immortal souls depended upon the out
come Of q putt. II required 157, d new
low figure, to qualify to-day.
Ray and Hagen Worried
There was Ted Ray one of the
worlds greatest. Ted had an so on
Tuesday To-day he had d 10. Yet
when he finished he was mighty
figure Of woe. He was sure that he
hadn't qualified. And he was fighting
50 hard Just to get in that on the
fourth and tenth holes he put all the
Drawn he had into 4 brace OF drives
that travelled over 315 yards each be
fore they finally came 20 rest within
brief Doking distance of the cup. The
fourth hole is 400 yards long, with an
uphill finish, yet Ray was home on his
second with a niblick.
Hagen, the American champion,
finished in q tie with Ray. with no
great margin to spare. He had q ten
foot putt for at the first hole,
rlmmed the emp, went twelve inches
past and then missed coming back.
At the second he was trapped on
his approach. forty feet past the pin
on his third, with an uphill inclinesand
q dip 70 take-a hard putt to get dead
hut this time it futtered INTO the cup.
Such is golf. When an open cham
ploa can miss one-foot putt on one
green and hole a f0rty-foot putt on the
net yen can figure out lbs mystery.
Most Of the stars are safely in. Leo
Delgel took q days rest with a rs
after his first II. "I'll start again
when the bell rings" was his only COM
nent. Gene Sarazen, Fort Wayne
youngster. finished at 147. one stroke
back Of Jack Burke, at 1916.
Big Test Now at Hand
But, after all, these qualifying scores
are of no great value for any summing
up. In the big test it is still matter
OF who Will beat out Hagen, Barnes,
Ray and Nardon. who are now about
set to unfurl TIE best they have and
who are always at their best when the
showdown comes. and long experience,
plus skill, tells the story.
Nardon, playing with Bobby Jones,
merely drifted in. Jones, playing well,
qualified among the elect. one stroke
above Chick Evans. who at $50 led
the amateurs and is coming UP on his
pest game. Narcon was Two strokes
oehind the Atlanta youngstcr
Make no mistake about overlooking
Chick IN this championship. The mar
row, well trapped Inverness fairwavs
put big premium upon straight hit
ting, and Chick as q rule is as straight
as the shortest distance between two
points. He had bad three-hole start
IN his second round, but after that set
tied down to q brilliant stride. The
greeys here are soft and in no sense
tricky, another factor that favors
Chck. Win or lose, he should be very
close to recovering the title that Hagen
took from him d year ago at Brae
Burn
Hagen, after two easy-going rounds,
IS ready to remove the blanket and go
TO IL. II he wins it will be after the
toughest fight he has ever known. for
sthe field to-day IS far stronger than
II was when he won in 1914 and in
1919.
=, Barnes also began to find himself in
the second round. and he too, is ready
Long Jim came down from 70 to IA in
tie with Harry Vxrdon safely in, but
not too good.
The strain in this championship will
crack many a stout heart before FIJI
day night There are so many stars
playing such brilliant golf that each
knows one missed putt, one iron
shot off the line, may be just enough
70 XII his chance.
II Hutchinson, for example, can only
start with another such round as he
mad to-day, some one Will need mo-
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