The New York herald., 1921-10-02
HAGEN TAKES GOLF
final BY 3 AND z.
Defeats Jim Barnes for Amer
lean Professional Title at
InwoOd.
STANDS 1 UP IN MORNING
Winner Totals 60 in First
Round and Then Goes
Out In 33.
by KERR N. PETRIE.

/ ny KERR N. PETRIE.
ny defeating Jim Barnes of Pelham
by up and 2 to play yesterday on the
1nwood links in the thirty-six hole
final of the p. G.. A. championship
Walter Hagen demonstrated to the
satisfaction Of his friends and adj
Ynirers that he has no immediate in
tention Of allowing his name to be
erased from the list Of the great Amer
ican professional golf triumvirate.
Walter started his season a little
ENTHUSIASTICALLY, but toward the finish
he has come with rush. A few weeks
ago he won the Western open title.
and now with the professioni cham
pionship dangling at his belt he can
justly claim that despite the victory
OF Jock Hutchison In the British open
and the success of Jim Barnes in the
American blue ribbon event at Wash
fngton he has come through the sea-
son with fair share of the honors.
The game that Hagen turned upon
Barnes yesterday was one Of his very
best. It was unbeatable, practically. for
In the afternoon the raven haired home
bred played the first nine In SO, four
shots under par. and driving for the
fourteenth was no less than four under
"a. Jim made the mistake of allowing
his opponent to get flying start in
the afternoon, for Hagen won the first
and second In As, and this. added to an
advantage of one carried over from the
first eighteen holes. left the Pelham man
battling with his back to the wall
Hagen from that stage on never gave
Barnes a winning chance. His dives
were long and generally straight. and.
while his approaches usually were inside
those of Barnes. Walter putted with un-
erring aim, while Jim, when he had
chance, did no more than hang them on
the rim As far as the fourteenth hole
Hagen never made the semblance or a
mistake With the playing of this hole
Jim scored his first success, but 1t was
a little too late by that time.
bunkered tee shot was Hagen's
trouble here. Barnes was just little
better, for he was in the rough, and a
few feet more would have placed aim
beside his rival. Hagen decided to play
a safety shot, and this enabled Barnes
20 gain the distance equivalent to
stroke. all things being equal
Burns Wins HIS First Hole.
with hfs third Hagen was still on the
mounds on the side Of the green. Barnes
meanwhile being within fifteen feet OF
the cup. Hagen's fourth shot left MIN
with an eight foot putt for half. but
this affair was missed Jim thus scored
his first win of the afternoon.
Considering that the Pelham man was
at the time down with to play, II was
not a particularly encouraging break.
However. Jim stuck TO his task. WITH
the tee shots for the short sixteenth
Hagen had decidedly the better of II, his
ball being only Ave feet from the cup,
while that Of Barnes was a dozen feet
or more away. with his putt Barnes
laid his ball on the lip of the cup an1
Hagen had his chance to finish the
match. Walter putted boldly and had
started forward to pick the sphere out
of the cup. II was merely stride and
n stretch OF the arm. The shot appeared
to be accurately aimed, but as Hagen
stopped the ball cvame out to meet him.
Hagen now was dormie 9. Walter
began the sixteenth with wild :,ool;
that on several other holes would have
been away out of bounds. His second
shot was from the seventeenth fairway,
and so far away was he left that he de-
cided to play safe OF the traps harding
the green on his second. Barnes saw
his chance and sent a fine rakiug low
iron shot into the wind to stop no more
than eighteen feet beyond the flag pin.
Hagen's short pitch was strong and
Barnes ran his ball within a clubs
length Hagen missed and the ,stional
open champion was left with his short
putt to prolong tho match.
Jim was making fighting finish OF
It. Considering Hagen's ragged play or
the fourteenth and sixteenth there was
just q possibility that Barnes would
carry the match to the home green and
perhaps even II up. In any event Il
could not possibly finish before the sew.
enteenth. Then came the crash thai
broke the tension. Barnes missed his
short putt, stuck the ball on the lip OF
the cup most miserably, and Hagen hac
the championship Of the professional
Golfers Association by tho margin ol
. and 2.
barnes Defeats Emmett French.
Before starting with Hagen Barnes
was left to play off twelve holes OF hi.
scmi-finai match with Emmett French
of Youngstown, captain OF the American
prOlek&l0nhl team, Wnicn pfaytu III NA'
British open championship at st. An
drew's. Jim had been two UP on Frida,
when the storm necessitatcd a suspen
sion of hostilities. With the cours'
practically recovered from the delug'
Barnes made q fast passage Into th'
final. He was two under four, and thi
sort Of thing added three more hole
10 the Pelham mans lead. and left hin
winner by up and TO play.
1t was. perhaps, a mistake for Barnes
TO play SO much golf In one day. 1
cannot be said, however, that Jim diC
not play well. Nothing was to blame
for his defeat but Hagen and the lat
ter's relentless golf. On the first hol'
in the morning Walter holed fort!
foot putt for three and he repeate,
at the next by chipping In from off tn
green. That left Barnes with battl'
on his hands right away. At the thirt
Hagen almost holed another or hi
gobblers. but Barnes got a half an,
then began to give as good as he re
ceived. Six holes out Barnes had tn
match squared and Mt the ninth tn
national open tltleholder actually hat
moved into the lead. with q card 10
the nine holes of thirty-four as agains
the thirty-five registered by Hagen.
Coming back Hagen squared whei
Barnes missed short putt on the shor
tspth. but Jim came back at Waite
e7everly on the next, hitting the pit
with a perfect mashie shot and scoring