New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Long-Driving Player Car
ries Cup to England
After 2O-Year Lapse
By Grantland Rice

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Big Ted Ray, of Oxhey, England,
the mightiest slugger and the great.
est putter in the game, is the new
open golf champion of the United
States after one of the most dra-
matte finishes any tournament has
ever seen.
Baked by Francis Ouimet in 1918,
the poaderous Englishman with the
dropping mustache and the ever
present pipe, came safely through
by the margin of one stroke-one
predominant stroke that lifted him
above Harry Vardon, Leo Diegel,
jock Hutchinson and Jack Burke.
who tied for second place at 296.
Rays winning total was 295, earned
by mighty lunges off the tee and by
extremely skIiIful use of his aluminium
putter, which missed one or two short
pokes, but in the main, found the CEN
ter OF the cup with amazing certainty
gil through the closing day
Steadiness Big Factor
Ray won by greater steadiness. for
when the pinch came at the finish he
alone maintained his poise, where both,
Vardon and Diegel gan into trouble
that left an extremely devastating
effect.
The great drama Of the tournament
passed Ray Dy and took in it's swirl
two OF the beaten, who fought to the
finish only to lose out by less than
half span These two were Jock
Hutchinson, the Scottish-American and
Leo Diegel. the Detroit home bred. who
each had one putt left upon the home
green TO tie the winner and carry the
battle forward for another day
Diegel had the championship in his
grasp when he left the thirteenth
green, out two bad shots cost him a
SIX a. the fourteenth, where he was
bunkered additional mistakes added
TWO more at the fifteenth and sixteenth
and ne -nen was left with seven strokes
TO catch Ray, who had already finished
with MS 295. Coming to the 43O-vard
seventeenth hole, Diegel had taken 288
strokes for the seventy holes already
completed. He had to beat par on one
hole to get his tie and roll back or
avert the British triumph
After q fine tee shot he PLAYED sec
ono 10 the seventeenth TO within eight
feet Of the cup. All he needed was this
elght-footer and a simple four at the
finish 10 stand all even with Ray.
Chick Evans, who had supplanted
Deigels caddie at the fourteenth hole.
stood by while the twenty three-year-
old home-bred made his try for the
tin.
Fate Against DiegeI
The ball trickled slowly by. and as it
rolled an inch above the rim of the cup
deep groan went up from the 1000
spectators banked upon surrounding
knobs and knobs above the green. Only
a now at the 1872 yard eighteenth hole
would do the trick.
The crowd rushed forward and left
human lane from tee to green.
Diegels tee shot was straight down
the course. His mashie shot to the
green stopped hole high twenty feet TO
the right, and after carefully studying
the line of the putt ne sent the ball
upon its way. It's in" shouted Evans,
but once again the ball curled slowly,
and Diegels game bid had been COM
pleted.
Then came the news that Jock Hutch
inson, the gallant Scot, also had 28S
strokes for seventy holes with Diegels
chance 10 tie. One under par would
turn the trick. Jock was just off the
seventeenth green on his second shot,
e. but, nothing daunted, he went boldly
:or the cup with his chip. The ball
rolled strai ght and true TO less than an
inch Of the cup before it turned aside
as if blown by y breath only to hang
or the lip.
So jock. TOO, needed a finishing to
force drawn fight. His tee shot left
him d hard pitch TO the pin, but he
was safely on with about the same putt
that confronted Diegel.
Hagen. who was also on and thirty
fee. away, but with no chance for the
tide, stepped up and holed his thirty
footer
Nov go to it, Jock he remarked
You see how easy it is"
Hutchinson Misses Chance
Jock, generally a bundle of raw
nerves, looked as cool as q thin seq
ment Of cucumber on ice as he took
his stance. He struck the putt well,
gave II fine chance and once more
the ball rolled for the tin, only to turn
aside in the last two inches of It's
journey
And so, by the margin of these missed
puts the big Englishman succeeded
Walter Hagen as open golf champion
OF America, taking over the throne
which Harry Nardon captured twenty
years age at Chicago. but which he and
Nardon failed to win at Brookine
seven years after Vardons triumph.
English golfers have now won two OF
our open ampionships. and their trl-
umph to-day checked the home bred
run of victories which j. j. McDermott
started nine wears ago
In the morning round Harry Nardon
took the lead at 21S strokes after a
spectacular II, which began most IN
auspiciously with 6 at the first hole
ms first 6 of the tournament.
Hutchinson and Diegel were in sec
ond place at PIG, with Ted Ray fourth
at 200. Hagen had broken badly ano
was counted out. But Barnes was stu
only four strokes away at 222, while
Bobby Jones, with a spectacular 70, the
pest round of the day, was tied wlth
Barnes, Mcdonald and Loos at the same
ngures. At the eleventh hole IN the
afternoon, with but seven holes to go
the big crowd conceded Vardon the
Championship in a runaway race. " ltf
his lead of a stroke the imomrtal one
IN golf had gone out in SO by flawless
machine-like golf He was playing with
all his old skill, unruffied and serene
he had his at the tenth, and at tne
eleventh he beat par by taking 3. Sc
ne was one under As, with the crown
IN easy reach.
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