Evening star., 1921-07-23

Barnes winning card of 28o,
Walter Hagen and Fred Mcleod, by
gives an index of the remarkable
the tournament proper by this Britt
championship.
The new champions worst round
was IS. His other rounds were SO
13 and 72. Any one who contemplates
the rugged character of the task set
for any man to finish four rounds
over the well trapped Columbia course
with an average OF .2ls, as the cham
pion did, will realize the brand of
golf displayed all through the tourna-
Inent by this new pacesetter.
Long Jim is not new TO champion
ships. He has been up there many.
many times. and has raped on the
door of opportunity so often that it
seemed he would never arrive at the
pUrple-fringed goal. Last June at
st. Andrews, during the hectic strug-
gle for the British open title, which
eventually fell to the skill and courage
of Jock Hutchson of Glen View, lanky
Jim led his entire field for three
rounds. Then for some unforeseen
reaSon-perhaps the same reason that
has stopped him in previous cham
pionships-Long Jim stopped. His
game fell away and he finished be-
hind several other competitors.
Fast Pace From start.
Setting a pace that could be follow
ed only by supergolfer from the
very first day of the tournament
which ended yesterday. Barnes, in far
better physical condition than during
the British title chase. spreadeagled
the field at the end of tifty-four holes
and had piled up lead of seven shots
over Mcleod and Hagen. Playing
with implicit confidence-pafticula
greens-the champion displayed a poise
and confidence all through the last
day that indicated he knew the char
acter of his task and was determined
to allow nothing this time to stand in
his way. Yesterday afternoon. play
ing his final round in the champion
ship, which he knew was already his,
Jim played with a surety and conf
dence that would not permit of any
slips. He did falter-there never was
a champion that didn't show some
small lapse from perfect play-but
his slips were so small and came SO
late in the chase that they did not
mean a thing SO far as the final result
was concerned.
We refer to those three missed short
where Jim was firing badly--sitting
down on the putting green while Peter
O'Hara waited the ball into the hole
and other indications that the champion
would be glad when the strain was over.
Jim took three puts on two green's dur
ing the last nine. thing unprecedented
for him in previous rounds.
Begins string OF slices.
For time-and the only time during
the championship-it appeared yester-
day morning as If jim was going to
slice himself out Of the title. His tee
nine yesterday morning were all in the
rough to the right of the line OF play
and out of the first six holes five of
them were made in 5s. Jim got back
la Df
confidence when he holed a niblicil pitch
at the second hole for 2.
This hole can probably be classed
8 the turning point of the champion
ship. Barnes ball lay In a hanging
His assignment was to pitch over a
deep ditch to a pocket-handkerchief
Of green surrounded by pits and
mounds. His ball lit on the green
Chasmar removed the pin. From
this point. although his tee shots
were off the line and he. took at
the short fourth. Jim played with
every confidence. He did not make
any serious mistakes all day yester-
day.
in tie for second place is regarded
as one worthy of commendation.
Freddie came within a putt of beating
Walter Hagen for second place. his
putt fop on the eighteenth green
ranging on the lip Of the cup. while
President Harding. Vice President
Coolidge and other notables in the
crowd banked around the home green
hung on the swing of that aluminium
putter that almost gave the little Scot
second place.
One Round Not So Good.
Freddie's only bad round-and that
was not so bad-was in the morning
of the last day-when, after getting
out in 81 to pick up a shot on the
flying Pelham professional. he an
nexed two more shots at the tenth
and eleventh. and then proceeded to
fade gently from the picture through
series Of underplayed iron shots and
bad kicks. At the end of the eleventh
hole yesterday morning Mcleod was
only one shot behind Barnes and ap-
peared in a fair way to catch the
lanky New Yorker. A sliced second
shot at the twelft cost him a 6
at the hole and an underplayed iron
shot at the thirteenth, coupled with
bad kick into trap, cost him a 8 at
this par 3 affair. From this point
Freddie's game was only mediocre.
He relinquished his chance for the
title at the twelft and thirteenth.
Hagen. the only other serious COM
petitor for Barnes title. faded from
the picture in the first nine of yes
terday's first round. where he took
40. Although he breeZed back in
par-shattering 81, he was too far back
in the ruck and could not overtake
the fast-traveling Pelhamite. He
added another "A yesterday after
noon, but with Barnes playing per-
feet golf, could not even approach the
champion. Hagen has the reputation
and has upheld it-of being a very
strong finisher-and no one could
take anything for granted until it
was definitely known he had no
chance to win the title.
Most Representative Field.
Barnes won the championship from
the most representative field that
ever competed in the American
such players as Jock Hutchison. the
British open champion: George Dun
can, last years British titleholder;
Joseph H. Kirkwood, the Australian
crack; Bob Mcdonald. Cyril Walker,
Louis Teller, Mike Brady and many 1n1y
champion: Abe Mitchell. Jack Burke.
George Sayers and many others
picked up and withdrew.
To Charles Evans. jr., of Chicago,
the affable amateur champion. fell
the honor Of finishing first among the
seventy -two-hole total of 302. four
strokes behind Mcleod and Hagen
and two above an average of 75s for
the four rounds. A stroke back of him
came the crack Atlanta amateur.
Bobby Jones, the magnetic golfer
whom vardon says is the greatest
amateur in the world. Jones was tied
with Alex Smith, twice former cham
pion. now in his fifty-first year, and
Emmett French, captain of the Amer
lean professional team which went
abroad to compete in the British open