New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-27
New York Player Shoaus Way
10 Hutchinson by Fiue Strokes
Former National Cham
pion First With Card of
287; Bobby Jones Is 4th

CLEVELAND, Aug. %. - Walter
Hagen, Of New York, twice former ma
tional open champion, to-day captured
the Western open golf championship
lor the third time at the lakewood
Club with 287 strokes. Jock Hutchi-
son, OF Chicago, British open cham
pion and 1920 title-holder of this event
was second with 292, and Emmett
french, of Youngstown, third, with 294
only three other players finished
under 800 in tae event. which is omen
to the world, and was contested bv
the national open crown bearer. James
barnAs, Of New York; the British omen
champion, Hutchison: the Canadian
open champion, Y. H. Trovinger. of
Detroit; the Metropolitan open cham
plon, Bob Mcdonald, of Chicago, and
the Australian open title holder. Joe
Kirkwood
The play was spectacular for low
scored record So and Bobby Jones.
OF Atlanta, and Bob PEBBLES, of Peoria.
recorded COS, but after good par golf
on the second round the scores in most
cases mounted several strokes to-da '
because OF gale that swept the course.
Plays Consistent Game
iAcSSH, HONc Nti, EepL lHe even tenor
Of his way along the path of almost
perfect golf without mounting to spec
tacuar heights or dropping to mcdi-
ocrity. His rounds OF 7l-72 %
71-2S7 amounted to just three strokes
over par for the scventy-two holes.
The winner did not have a six o,
seven on the entire card and only
sixteen holes in five. He did not have
any freak scores to make up for poor
holes, scoring only one two, leaving
iiftysix holes that he played in either
or 4, and forty of these were tbs
coveted As.
AS an example he made the first
holes Of the primary round in a string
Of Is and had a run of five consecutive
4s at the close of to-day's rst circuit
of the 6,2S9 yard course.
Hutchison suffered the loss of his
title wholly on the last round, taking
76 to Hagen's II, and this slump from
previous scores of II. II, 10 was due
to his procliyity for water. He found
the creek on the second hole twice to-
day for two 6s and washed away his
remaining chances for victory in the
brook on the tenth hole of the final
round, taking another 6. The British
champion had two other IS in the first
two rounds and complained of the I'M
certainty Of his putter.
Hagen and Hutchinson played to-
gether in to-day's two rounds and drew
an immense gallery, but another large
crowd followed the pennant of Bobby
Jones, who tied with Kirkwood fol
fourth place, four strokes better than
Bob Mcdonald, who was next in line
with 299
Jones, as the only threatening ANA
teur, had the lead at the end of the
first two rounds, with SO, 70-139, but
the wind blew away his hopes, plaster
ing the figures SO on his morning score
card. so that even another 50 this
afternoon would not have erased
enough Of it to gain victory, to say
nothing Of his good IS.
Barnes Ties for Twelfth
The winning score to-day was four
above the record for the event set at
283 by jim Barnes at Westmoreland in
1914. and repeated two years ago al
the Mayfield Club, and one stroke higher
than the record for the national open
event made by Chick Evans at Mini
k&hda in 1917, when Hutchinson WAS
runner up With PSI.
Barnes was in the rear from the