The New York herald., 1921-06-26
GOLF CROWN GOES
TO JOCK HUTCHINSON
Defeats Roger Wethefed,
Amateur, In Playoff for
British Open Title.
SCORES ARE $50 TO 159
Chicago Pro- Takes Lead of
Three Strokes in Morning
Play Over st. Andrews.
ny BERNARD DARWIN.

Special Gable to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1891, by THE NEW YoxK HERALD
y ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, June 25.--
America won the open golf champion
ship here to-day, and the cup and
honors go across the Atlantic for the
first time. The glory goes to Jock
Hutchison, professional of the Glen
View Club, near Chicago, who de-
feated Roger Wethered, the Oxford
captain, in the thirty-six hole playoff
Ivy score of $50 to 159.
Hutchison won his tie against
Wethered by nine strokes, making the
rounds in "a and rs, against II and so.
Hutchison's golf on the first nine
holes in the afternoon was the most
deadly, relentless and brilliant ever
seen in the British open championship
and the match was witnessed by the
largest crowd ever seen on a British
Kinks.
He finished by taking things eau
tiously and easily, or his second round
might hAve been good deal better.
Anyhow he played magnificent golf.
and II is the general opinion of good
judges who watched him throughout
the weeks playing that such fine
pitching had never before been seen.
There is no doubt that his ribbed clubs
help him in making the ball bite the turf
as he does. but no club can account for
Il
ring straightness. When he had any
form of pitching club in his hands it
never looked as If he could make any
thing but good shot and he practically
never did
Wethered played most gallantly and
pluckily and his is marvellous achieve
ment for a young amateur OF %. His
comparative failure to-day was the trag-
edy of his putting. He had a little the
best of the tee shots and his iron play
was good enough. but he couldn't get
down in two puts and he couldn't hole
the five foot ones. At any rate he did
more than enough TO earn great glory
and there Is doubt that the better man
won. America may feel very proud of
her champion.
Two steady halves began the match
Then Hutchison, with lovely ap-
proach, got a 3 and Wethered overran
and took 8. However Hutchison, to the
general surprise of the gallery, then
played thoroughly bad hole He took
6 and promptly lost his two stroke adj
vantage. Two steady halves followed
and then Hutchison had one of his fits
of brilliant inspiration, playing the sew
m In oh,
The way in which his ball pulled up
close to the hole as If tied to string
was wonderful to behold.
Wethered putted a little weakly at
this stage, taking four As, and was
four strokes behind. He still was play
ing fine golf up to the greens and did
not give in one little bit Two halves
followed: then came Wethered's turn.
He began to beat Hutchison at his own
game. His approaching was splendid
and Jock became Just r. little unsettled.
And so with sixteen holes played the
amateur was but one stroke behind and
the crowd wild with excitement.
But Hutchison always seems to have
that little burst of brilliance in reserve.
He got grand 4 at the Road hole and
gained stroke He gained another
stroke on the last hole. where Wethered
approached badly, as he had done the
day before.
So Hutchison was around in "a TO n
and went to lunch with lead OF three
strokes. The golf of both had been
very fine under the circumstances and
Il was putting that made all the diff
ference.
The second round can quickly be de-
scribed. For the first three holes Jock
was hanging on by the skin OF his teeth
10 get halves However. he got them.
At the fourth he gained two strokes
where Wethered was bunkered and re-
auired three puts That was virtually
the end. From there on Hutchison
played scintillating golf Wethered on
the other hand putted badly and Hutchi-
son reached the turn in 33 TO 80.
There was one bad moment when
Hutchison hooked into the hill bunker
at the eleventh. which has been the
grave or so many hopes Jock, however.
20; ort a, the second attempt naa was
down for 5. After that he played
Just safely. Wcthered had two dis
astrous sevens and both were home
in 43.
The end was rather an anti-climax.
but the huge crowd stretching the whole
length OF the last hole. gave Jock tre-
mendous reception as he sank the vim
ming mutt