Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14
DLEGEL PRAISED AS
RAY WINS u. s. TITLE
Home.Bred Is Hero OF
Hour at Toledo for.
Nearly Stopping British
Inudsion
nv SANDY McNIBLICK


,or,o bred. who. knowing what he had
81 d. came close to stopping the British
,.,osion for the open golf championship
~ The United States. They cheered him
20 the echo for his plucky try, and
though he failed to deadlock the ques-
ZION by three grassy inches from the
cup. every heart that saw that nn,sn
beat beat for him, every tongue sings his
p'Tdbt That Diegel alone will probably. get
~ ,ho acclamation Is due more to force
a. circumstances, perhaps, than actual
results. Viii, .,,,. ,.,
.ho American classic yesterday with a
tnt,i score for the seventy two holes of
medal % play of 205 strokes.
Diepel, Jock Hutchison. Jack Burke
srd Harry Vardon were tied for the
second low score with 206.. one stroke
remoycd from the deadlock that the
frst days play had promised.
First Low Total
But It was Jack Burke, Of st. Paul,
,rtnown to the majority and not FIG
ured on by most to have change, VINO
ontnally set the first low total. He had
two wonderfully steady rounds in rs
rnsterday and set the mark for the
ctbers TO shoot at with his total OF 296.
lie had trailed the. leader by seven
strokes at the end Of the first day ana
was entirely overlooked when all OF
,Sn WaS beavy e favorites for the title were
Ssnketed in the lead by two strokes:
In the rush to watch the play OF
yardon, Barnes, Hagen, Hutchinson,
Dege and Ray the young Minnesota
state omen champion battled his way
over the thirty six holes unattended
eycept by scattered few who had
"hunch." friends who knew his calibsr;
Somehow, it looked as though that 206
would be beaten easily by the favorites
still out. And so it was that Burke
played his low round for the day OF
iIl without the wild huzzahs. the fran.
tic cheering, the strained eagerness and
the excited comment of the surging
gallery.
Burke learned his golf in Philadel-
mia, where he was caddy at the
Country Club from the Falls of Schuyl-
kill section. He had his first pro. berth
in Philadelphia. which he left about
ten years ago to come west.
vardon tied Burke's score of 296
Yesterday soon after it was made, and
the struggle was on to cross the tape
In 205 or better.
Pull for Diegel
America first" was the slogan, and
the one hope still out there in the hills
and dales of the Inverness course was
Leo Degel. For this reason he got
the glory. They pulled" for him as
probably few golfers were pulled" for
before. That he did not come through
made little difference. He had given
his best in the circumstances no man
could have tried harder.
. tho sc he ,,,ar,;pr rAnnI
yesterday Vardon had ovcrtaken
Hutchison and had a clear lecway of
one stroke. He had gone out in even
Lar, was hitting the ball as only q
rardon can and looked like the new
champion. A firm iron to the tenth
gave him a four, and when he sank q
thirtyfoot putt at the eleventh II
looked as il the British veteran of sc
many championships was setting 1.-THE
pace that kills"
With the title surely" in his grasp
but seven holes from his chance. Var
don seemed to crack under the strain
suddenly the punch to go through with
It, and that finish of his was sorry
spectacle. His second to the twelfth
was short, and he took a six. His sec
ond putt, a short little affair at the
thirteenth. was plumb off the line. Ht
missed one of the same at the four.
teenth, his second to the fifteenth was
IN the rough at the bottom of the in
cline short of creek and the green
and he took FIVE.
Sardon was on the sixteenth beauti.
Iully IN two. but short on his approach
putt and took two more, messing thu
svsnteenth srs in the same way with a si'
and finally must have breathed easier
when he had ended the affair at tn,
eighteenth. Nardon had come home ir
a. yet two strokes less would have
given him the title.
Barnes Inaccurate
Barncs's failure to win the title after
al MS efforts was due to the fact. those
VINO followed him throughout said, t.
Ine unusual inaccuracy Of his shots
IN the afternoon for instance his drive!
were generally in the edge of the rough
hIot where it hurt his second particu
thsry Tor lie, but he just didn't hav,
me shot from the fairway, time afte,
ume' Then his usual long iron Lacked
mat 'uncanny nose" for the opening
ne left himself short or was over, o.
use ne had long try for his two puts
barnes, on the golf he can play, il
HneearlS always good for better than
70 or q, the scores he played yester
Ray got his start when he was abl
70 make the turn in 81. and then cam
nome IN 40, missing though he did
snort putt at the seventeenth an,
smearlng the twelfth with n six.
,.bnt his four rounds were "A -73- 73
10, which is Ray all over, steady a
,, When Ray had finished. Diegel an
mutchlSon were still out there with
shanCo-liutChison. a Scotch American
tready the winner of fair share o
aonors, and Diegel. American born, bu
twenty three years old.
- AT the twelfth, Dicgel had caugh
nay and from there is was neck an,
% ueSK The Rriton was finishing tw
pa'rS ahead of Diegel and on the paral
~ Nl holos they We're battling each other
cn Me news being ably relayed by voluntee
>, pl"gol played beautiful ptch to tn
tht rhmnrt thirteenth, where Ray had
Ahrpc Just before, and the tense nerve,
~ uone bred had chance for bird two
Evans Advises
,cK .hicK Evans had finished his owl
II" HJanu ana was carrying Diegels bag
lola studied the line as closely as Diego
ypos S'u nm how to make the putt and ad
'Srn as best he could.
srd Jdlegel missed that chance by hal
nsUoS su soon after that the occurrence hap
Soa Sad'u mat seemed to spell his ruin. II
nI anS made fine drive to the fourteent
whsn" was lining up'the long brassie she
will viii suddenly n person, whose nam
tbronmGt tbr, not be used for the pity of it, brok
tSoush tSa the dense gallery, slid undc
broLds ropes, dashed up to Diegel an
over re IN. the news that Ray had been on
then par at the fifteenth, and that fror
h." on ''it's q lead. nine cinch al