New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-24
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OF St. Andrews
Chicago Golfer Turns In
Score of I47 for Ist Half
of international Match
BY Arthur S. Draper
Special Gable 10 The Tribune

ST. ANDREWS. Scotland, June 23.-
With two magnificent rounds Jock
autchison, the flying Scotsman Of the
Glenview Club Of Chicago, is leading
the field tonight with a score Of 147
for the first half of the titanic inter-
national struggle for the British open
golf championship.
Not only did the former st. Andrews
boy show the way and thereby win the
plaudits of crowd Of more than 10000
that gathered around the last green, but
the other American invaders success
fully stormed the citadel Of British
golf and now the title seems well
within their grasp.
Jim Barnes, of the Pelham Country
Club of New York, who finished just
before Hutchinson, returned two 74s for
148 which put him IN tie with Ted
Ray who barely qualified on Tuesday
Two strokes behind Hutchinson is the
sharp-shooting little George Mclean,
of the Grassy Sprain Club, and only
FIVE strokes behind Jock are Charlie
Hoffner, Of Philadelphia; Clarence
Hackney, Of Atlantic City; William
Melhcrn, of Tulsa, and smiling Bobby
jones, who finished the day with ID,
playing brilliantly on the nomewaxd
journey.
Los Angeles Man Stars
Also within easy striking distance
OF the leader are Paul Hunter, OF Los
Angeles; Walter Hagen, Of Detroit.
anc Tommy Kerrigan, of the Siwanoy
| Club of New York. The other Araerl-
cans seem to be out of it just now, but
they ali gave dazzling exhibition and
1 American golf has come into it's own
! with a vengeance.
Paired with Bobby Jones, Hutchinson
| played the game of generation and
| the annals of championship golf con-
/ tain nothing to rank with his record
! of two consecutive holes in q total of
three strokes. A bit lucky, it is i'd
mitted, but also the reward of superb
| golf.
These two amazing holes came in The
morning, when he returned a 70, tho
| best card of the field. Jocks "a out in
cluded a / at the short eight, where his
mashie shot dropped within three feet
! of the pin and trickled into the hole,
and 2 at the ninth, 303 yards, where
he drove to the green and promptly
| sank ten-foot putt.
| The Glenview Club pro seemed des-
| tined for g new record, but his putter
| Idiled MIN, as IL dlQ several times on
! the afternoon round.
! Hutchison's card was as follows:
| Out -..........3 So s l ga
! In ....-........4 8 4 4-3s-7e
A tremendous crowd followed the
pair in the afternoon, not only be-
cause they have become so popular,
! but because they are both wonderful
stylists, and the St. Andrews crowd
KNOWS golf as no other does. Hutch
inson was horribly uncertain on the
! green on the way TO the turn, both he
and Jones requiring 80 for the first
nine, but coming back, with the wind
following, they went out after every
thing, taking daring chances and being
| abundantly rewarded.
| Some idea OF the class of Joness
| golf may be gained when it is stated
I he had two strokes under average
! tours for fifteen consecutive holes, and
| this with q strong wind blowing.
Hutchinson played the fourteenth in
| three, almost sinking his brassie ap-
proach of $50 yards. There is no beat
l ing this kind of golf, and the crowd
kept continually aprlauding.