Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-23

so wide between himself and the best
Of many climes was that the green's
suited. And this was tournament de-
cided mostly on the green's. They wers
built for Barnes style, the experts
figure He seems TO tIrn his blade over
a little, to putt with a drag, you might
say, and keep them close.
Some of the greens went sour uu-
fortunately just before the tourney.
Fungus Crcpt out and ate the grass
like ring worm. Sand was sprinkled
on them to minimize the CLASSY effect
and Barnes best had the touch for them.
He used to putt on some green's like
them down South and couldn't be
beaten. But all the same the rest OF
his game was going great guns and had
to be. His woods and irons had the
crowds whistling and cheering all the
time.
Had the Courage
Added to this, President Harding
said it. Barnes had the temperament
and the courage. So it was a land
slide. -,
AS for the rest of the field, look what
happened
Jock Hutchison. fresh from his
triumph in the British open. didn't even
finish in the money. Putting crowded
nun DICK luPTt ann lutTP = u
that he's been over gOlfed. The re-
action had set in after his great con-
quest and he won't be keen again for a
bit.
Then there were the Britons, Abe
Mitchell and George Duncan, and they
are figured as the two best players
abroad. Duncan finished in a tie for
eighth place with Clarence Hackney
where he was tOuted by many as
winner. hands down.
AS for Abe Mitchell, well he with
drew.
Joe Krkwood, champion of Austral-
asia. who increased his reputation by
his play abroad, could not get going
and finished back of IIutchison. Charlie
Murray. Canada's hope. got by with
flying colors the first day when ne tied
for second, but the pace was too hot
and he blended with the early morning
landscape yesterday morning.
SO much for the foreign INVASION.
The cup won by Ted Ray last year is
safe back home again. The British
cup is here. too. Gee, what a triumph
for American professional golf 1t has
been. -.
/ Fred Mcleod was expected by many
to come through on his own course at
| Columbia. He has won the title once,
| so has the goods. and he made game
! fight for it. But he, too. was dazzle't
by Jim's lead. Fred had a three foot
| in the falling shadows near the end of
/ the tourney Yesterday afternoon Tor
/ second money to beat out Hagen.
But Just as he took his stance the
Marine Band went into the ecstasies
fftv yards away. Mcleod threw up
his hands and paced up and down Till
the band was hushrd. But under that
tension it was too late.
Walter Hagen, the worlds fercest
/ tinshrr, would have been in another
play off but for Barnes. Eight strokes
back he was out in - in the morning
peratc run of IS. fonr Of them in row,
and three of them were BIRDS
Amateurs Near Top
The amateurs, Chick Evans and Bob
7 BY Jones, again finished with the prize
winner, and way UP there in the order
mentioned, just a. they did ut Toledo.
IoncS played more brilliantly in spots
than even Evans did. The young At
lantan started 3-3 4 3 On his last round
and looked like he was .onTing from be-
hind. But then he bumped into that
"iitful ffth." tho hole that cost Diegrl
! II strokes, Karrignn 10, Bellewoo'l
| 10. and which Ilutchisou halved in 6S
yesterday, Barnes and O'Hara in bird
| Is. Jones pumped Two Tee NnO'S out
! of bound and hOled out finally in
snappy q.
Hackney was the lone entry from the
! Philadelphia district to finish we'll up.
| George Savers and Bill Leach we've
steady, but the others had trouble with
greens, more than thCir share, so that
/ the SpOilS were not for them Yesterday.
Though frw courses will compare in
. convenience for the galleries to Inver-
hess. where last years play was held,
Columbia had its fayoritc spots for the
| loungcrs.
There was one spot in particular,
| "Pcacock Alley" the ladies called it,
though the men folks named it Flat
foot Row" in honor of those who sat
there in lieu of the cross country work
ncco ssary to follow match. This was
the spot adjacent TO the seventeenth
toe, Hero YOU can hear them chaer ut
the fourteenth. see them play the fif-
/ tcCnth. short sixteenth. seventeenth and
the eighteenth, if you are not too lazy to
| turn around.