The New York herald., 1922-07-18
Sdrazen Brings Golf Cup
to Shop to His Friends
BY KERR N. PETRIE.

have won. He was going all right at
the thirteenth. But there the bald truth
was forced down his throat
Black" said this one and that one.
evidently with the best of intentions,
you have to beat 2SS."
And from that point on TO the end 2SS
obscured Johns vision. rode upon the
ball as he hit it and glowered at him
from bunkers and rough. In his high
state of tension 1t Is doubtful IL Black
actually took time to catch the true
import of the phrase that was being
whispered to him excitedly as he stepped
to the tee to make his drives or walked
along the fairway between shots. Had
he taken time there and then to figure
1t all out he probably would have salts
fled himself that he had so-and-so and
so-and-so and so-and-so for that magic
2S8. Instead, that blatting from the
sidellnes rung in his ears and probably
appalled, him; the mass of numerals
which In his absorbed state he was
unable to comprehend wound themselves
around his muscles and snarled his clubs.
His concentration was gone. He had to
make 2SS to win! What did it all mean?
Uses Iron Mt Fourteenth.
Left to himself Black probably would
have taken his driver to the fourteenth.
Instead he switched to iron and popped
the ball short. He had to make 2SS to
win. so, instead of Snacking that ball
on TO the green for a safe 4, he finished
I'D in a trap. 1t looked as If Black had
gone for that flag pin tucked away In
difficult and dangerous corner or the
green. He said later that he played for
the green and not the pin and that his
right hand just naturally turned over.
Then came the fifteenth, where, after
slcing to a bunker. Black got his four
through a wonderful pitch almost dead
10 the hole But for u sidehill putt he
might have had his 3 at the sixteenth.
Then came the fatal seventeenth. where.
as the Californian said, he tried TO
guide" the ball instead OF swingins on
it. He hooked out of bounds. much 10
the CONSERVATION OF George Martin OF
Santa Barbara. who later told now
among the fraternity OF the cleek Black
had built reputation for never doing
such thing as hook.
But lack had to beat 2Ss. so II II safe
to assume that over came that treach-
erous right hand again, Johns mind and
muscle still being fettered by the knowl-
edge impaired to him by tho gallery. his
stout denials to the contrary notwith-
standing.
And then there was that shot for the
green that Just trickled over the bank.
the putt that trimmed and came out, ana
at the last hole the wonderful brassie
shot that was Just a foot too strong.
The breaks assuredly were pulling
against this forty-three-year-old wizard
OF tho links
Could he have done better with an
earlier start and would sarazen have
dcne as well with a later? Also. would
Bobby Jones have won had he been
where Sarazen was ana had the gallery
left him to work out his own destiny
without having IL in Its power to tell him
that he had TO do to win the open cham
p,onshipY. These are the big questions
left behind by the twenty seventh an
nual u. s. @. A. open championship at
skokie. They do not affect waiter
Hagen, for It Is generally agreed that
Tagen's role Of chaser rs his natural
one.