New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-03
Fotheringhan
AndMcLeOdTie
For Runner-Up
Chicago 'sPro'' Has Card
of POI for = Holes in
Tournament at Pinehurst

OF the Glenview club, of Chicago, CON
unued his dazzling golf play to-day on
= the third aud fourth rounds of the
North and South open championship.
and won the title in the most exciting
and thrilling competition ever held for
this prize. Jock the Hutch crossed the
llne four strokes in front of his near
est competitors. George Fotheringham
of Breton Woods, and the midget
Freddy Mcleod, of the Columbia Coun-
try Club. His winning score was 29l
Mcleod, one of the nerviest as we'll
as one of the most brilliant golfers in
the field staged a royal comeback
which enabled him to tie Fotheringham
Tor second money. Each of these play
ers had total of 295. Peter O'Hara
Of the Shakamaxon club. who had a
slne chance to come through, slipped on
the last round, along with the others
and finished with 296, which gave him
Detroit star, was fifth, with an even
500
Cyril Walker. of the Englewood
cub; Tom Kerrigan. of Siwanoy; Pat
Ofiara, of Richmond County; Emmett
French. Walter Hagen and J. II. Kirk
wood, the trick golfer Of Australia,
were the other prize winners.
lied AFTER Second Round
In the morning the majority Of the
large colony of golfers here decided to
follow the two leaders. Hutchinson and
Fotheringham. At the start of the third
round the pair were tied for first place
with IA strokes each
The struggle OF the two on this
round will never be forgotten by those
who followed tho match. It was simply
succession Of brilliant recoveries and
long puts from the first hole to the
eighteenth. Hutchinson wound up with
par II to his opponents To-
Take the twelfth hole, for instance,
where .Fotheringham got 5. Playing
that same hole over again in the same
way, he probably would take at least
l.. He sliced his drive. then, in
moving leaf from near his ball, he
moved the pellet and suffered a penalty
stroke. He missed his third almost
completely. and sent his fourth over
the green TO the far edge from where
ne hoide out, putt of more than 80
feet.
Hutchinson did much the same as
Fotheringham on most of the holes.
Like his rival, he was very cratic and
was constantly jumping into traps ard
making marvellous recoveries. On top
% that. he was putting like a pirate
Stars Fall by Wayside
While this battle Of the bunkers
kerrigan. Peter O'Hare. Marty
OLoughlin and Mike Brady were shoot
ing their collective heads off for par
scores: Mcleod, Pat O'Hara, Hagen
and kirkwood also had played we'll,
although it was hard struggle for
each of them to make all his tally.
~ the end of the round the OHara
brothers, Diegel. Kerrigan. Mcleod and
O'toughin were within striking dis
lance OF the two leaders. OIoughlin
fell off in the afternoon, however. and
BRADY, Hagen and Kirkwood were too
TAR behind ever to catch up. The lat
Ter pair, however, managed to finish in
t. money.
Hagen and the Australian played the
FOUR rounds together and kept astridc
each other the entire distance. finish
ing with exactly the same total
The Hutch and Fotheringham en-
gagged in similar struggle on the
fourth round that they had in the
morning, except that the breaks did not
favor them so we'll. Another instance
Of the thrills they furnished on this
final round: Hutchinson, in the rough
on the seventh hole, took an iron and
came out with a shot that carried be-
yond Fotheringham's brassie WALTON
crowd may not have seen the most SCI
entitc exhibition ever offered, but it
certainly was given plenty of excite
ment.
Great Finish by Mcleod
Peter O'Hara was behind the leaders.
and many dropped back to watch him
finish his fight for the prize. But Peter
also had his troubles on the last round.
and took 10, the same as Fothering-
ham. However, the fellow who nearly
overlook the Chicagoan was the dmin-
utive Mcleod. Despite on the short
sixth hole, par and an easy one shot
affair. the Columbian. struggling gal
lantly to retain his honors, was out
in Sc.
He started back we'll. and at the
twelfth hole was within two strokes of
Hutchinson and within one of Fother-
ingham. BY the time the fourteenth
hole was reached he had got on even
terms with the former Richmond
County pro. Then the crowd began to
cheer him on and to urge him to over
take Hutchinson.
When Mcleod got a beautiful at
The fifteenth and A at the sixteenth it
looked as though he might turn the
trick. But at the seventeenth, after
landing on the green with his tee shot,
, he took three puts, and his chances
went a-glimmering. Then at the
eighteenth he hooked into rough and
had to take a stroke to get out. From
there he caught trap, and only a
beautiful recovery enabled him to tie
Fotheringham.
Scores were turned in by the leaders
rs follows:
Jock Hutchison. Gienview.. 144-71-7e-2s
Geo Fo,heringha Bret
ton Wood ....,.........1 44-7o-~To-s95