The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-23
TONG JIM" BARNES WINS THE NATIONAL
 OPEN GOLF TOURNEY
Pelham Boy Pro Finishes Nine Strokes Ahead of His Nearest Rivals, Hagen
 and Mcleod
RrAssnciated Press

Washington, July 22.-Playing as fine two-days' session of golf as the most pessimistic critic of the ancient James M Barnes of the Pelham Bay tN. Y.) Country club. won the open national championship on the course of the Columbia Country club here late today with score of 2s9 strokes for 72 holes.
 Nine strokes in his wake came Walter Hagen of New York, cham pion in 1919. and Fred Mcleod, pro- fessional of the local course, each with score of 29s.
 National amateur champion, Charles Chick" Evans of the Edge water club of Chicago was fourth with 502, the first amateur of the original score or more of entrants to finish. Another amateur of national goifing prominence, tied in the next group of three in the person of Robert T. Bobby Jones of Atlanta, whose score of 3o3 placed him along side the professionals, Alex Smith of New London and Emmett French of Youngstown, o.
 Duncan Finishes Well
 Of the half dozen foreign entrants who gave an international aspect to the twenty-sixth national champion ship, only George Duncan, winner of the 1920 English open, with a score of 3os, finished we'll up in the strug- gle for the American title. He was tied with Clarence Hackney of At lantic City for eighth place with s05, two more strokes than he had required in his championship win at Deal. England.
 Following this pair came Emil Loeffler of Pittsburg with 306 and A. T. Hackbarth of Park Ridge, Ills, who was one stroke behind Loeffler. From these figures the survivors of as hard an open championship battle as has ever been staged in this coun- try, trailed along in little squads un- til the final score approximated $40.
 Barnes, in winning his first na- tional championship, gave remark able exhibition of brilliant yet con sistent golf, especially on the greens. While he had an occasional short lapse from his almost perfect play, his game for the complete 72 holes established a standard which will probably stand for some seasons to come.
 Barnes Had Hard Luck
 Had Barnes been a trifle more for tunate in his putting on the final nine holes, where he began to fall away, he would have created new championship record. As 1t was, he came within three strokes of the fig ures made by 'Chick" Evans in the open of I936, when the western ana teur played around the Mnniekahda course at Minneapolis at 2S6. Today with an applauding and gaily be- decked gallery of some thousands of spectators following Barnes, who knew that he had the championship within his grasp. after many previous futile efforts, the strain appeared to tell on the final greens, and he missed several butts which earlier in the play would have been ensy for him.
 Many close followers of the for tunes of Barnes feared that he might crack under the strain. for the new champion has frequently shown 8 tendency to have at least one bad round in his big tournaments. Today however, he refused to depart far from his high standard and the re- suit was a victory after nine years of struggle for the title.
 Barnes first tried for the cham
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