New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-22
Mitchell Quits A ter 9 Holes;
Jones Siso,vs Way to amateurs
Famous Briton Picks Up
Ball After Poor Start;
Duncan With Leaders
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game temporarily had merely gone to
seed, and while he might still have
finished in the money by brilliant
round ne was quite willing to call it a
full day and gather in breathinr
spell for the long tour that begins on
Sunday.
jock Hutchison, British champion
fought brave but uphill battle, but
he has yet to recover the stride that
carried him to his St. Andrews tri-
umph, ard the nerveewrackng effects
of that tempestuous assault have left
their momentary mark upon his skill.
After taking rs in the morning, the
gallant Jock had to use up 8 strokes
for his second round. and this straf-
Cling match leaves him as much chance
as Mr.. Volstead has of getting three
cheers in the peerless Bowery.
SO, after all the chatter, with the
last scores turned in, Jim Barnes was
the only member of the big six to hold
his speed and pace Barnes. with a
four-stroke lead, playing the game he
offered two big galleries to-day, will
of course be unbeatable. But up to
date one bad round has always cut him
down upon the edge of glory and there
are still determined fighters fairly close
in keen pursuit.
Mcleod, the smallest golfer in the
field, and Murray, the largest, are in
position to take advantage of any slip,
as both to-day played with rare steadi-
ness throughout. One stroke back of
these and only FIVE strokes back of
Barnes in fourth place is Bobbie Jones,
the golfing jewel of Georgia, who after
taking DO puts and 78 in the morning
went out over the hard nine in SO for
his second trip and finally finished
with II, when at one time he had a
fairly simple 6S in sight. Young Jones
showed vast Improvement in his sec
ond round, and if he happens to get
away briskly tomorrow morning he
will be big factor in the final award.
One stroke back of Jones we find
George Duncan, Clarence Hackney and
Alex Smith, a rare delegate from the
Old Guard. These are punched at $50.
At one occasion it looked as if George
Duncan would keep even pace with the
brilliant Barnes. Duncan had 70
for his first ronp, and in the after
noon he was under way at top speed
until he hooked out of bounds at the
sixth, where long lane of quiet and
brooding naples held the doom Of more
than one before the day was over.
After the sixth Duncan never quite re-
covered his old poise and after going
out in SO, taking another 6 at the
ninth, he needed rs to round out his
card for the afternoon.
Affairs were not breaking any too
gently, for his luck was none of the
best. The master artist, from the stand
point of ease and grace and execution,
is no. yet out of it, by any means, but
he has now reached a place where he
cannot afford another rocky round. He
must be at his best through the steamy
stretch to arrive in trent. Alex Smith
had one of his old fashioned days, lift
ed from his championship reign of
eleven years ago. The veteran, who
won his last crown in 1910, was the
steadiest man in the field. He was the
worse than a for his card, where such
stars as Diegel and Pete O'Hara were
running into double figures. Mcleod
and Smith are the surviving delegates
from lost days of glory, and on Friday
they are going out for everything in
sight Both are on tcp of their game
and are not to be overlooked.
Hackney and Hagen. the shomebreds:
at $50 and 1872, with Emmett French
and Chick Evans, are others still in
striking distance if fate inclines their
way Hagen, alter. spotty forenoon.
came back with his cid rush, and he
should be even bette tomorrow. But
they will all have to move bit now to
overtake Long Jim.
In his morning march Barnes was
moving none too swiftly until he
passed the sixth hole, where he took a
g. At this point the Premier of Pei
ham took off the wraps. He first
Clipped into the cup for a 8 at the
seventh, his ball resting off the green.
Another followed at the short eighth,
and then at the long, uphill ninth he
rammed his second shot within four
feet of the cup and sank another g..
Out in So, he started home by canning
his fourth successive at the 420-yard
tenth, and at the still longer eleventh
ne had a seven-foot putt to round out
five IS in a row, but the attempt failed
to fall. From this point on Barnes was
content to take even 4s, until he
reached the short sixteenth. Here he
sunk a g. His play throughout was
magnificent and after one or two early
lapses his trusty putting blade carried
him forward at a dizzy clip. With a
So in the morning, his second 60 in
succession, the Pelham pro quite natur-
ally slipped trife III the afternoon.
Out in 80 he needed at the tenth,
and for bare breath looked to be
going the way Of Hutchinson, Kirkwood
and Mitchell. But with his serenity
unbroken and his poise undisturbed,
with the fading clover blossom still
held between his teeth, he came back
tor e at the 420yard eleventh. and
beat par again at the 50O-yard twelfth
with two fine shots home against the
wind.
~. That rally pulled him up in time.
At the fourteenth he needed three 20
get down from the edge of the green,
taking 5. The scorer here marked
down 4, and so registered the figures
later, although Barnes had called out
at the time. So, in spite of much
excitement, followed later by meet
ing of the U. S. G. A. committee, the
field leader could hardly be held at
fault.
The outward machine line march of
Bobby Jones was one of the days big
features. In the first test the young
ster was playing brilliantly to the
green, but putting with miserable for
tune. He had no less than eight puts
from six to ten feet to beat par, but
none of them dropped, while three
puts upon five or six green's failed to
help. But in the afternoon he was an
other golfer. He was even As when ne