Evening journal., 1922-08-19
SARAzEN new
PRO GOLF CHAMP
2l-Year-Old Prodigy Adds
This Title to Open
Crown
DEFEATS FRENCH
4 AND 8 IN FINAL

OAKMONT, Pa. Aug. 1s-i
thoroughbred came down th'
stretch under full sail to victor,
yesterday in the final round for tn,
professional golfers championship o.
America. Gene Sarszen, nationa
open champion. and now America,
professional champion. too, II you
please-wss that thoroughbred. Re
hind. him came Emmett French
Youngstown. O.. Norwich in a race
with Whiskaway. The final was
and 3.
A gruelling match from the out
set. but minus the sterling golf that
has characterized other matches of
the tourney, the final was followed
by several thousand partisan spec
tators. As they had seen Sarazen
buckle up before in matches where
1t seemed he had at last slipped un-
der the terrific strain, they saw him
buckle up again yesterday.
At the same time they saw a sun
tanned exponent Of the royal and
ancient game crumble and fall as
the battle pulled into its last stages.
They saw the fighting blood OF the
champion come up with rush.
They saw his adversary crumble be-
fore it,
They finished the' morning round
all square. after one snd tho other
had been up" and down" at in
tervals. II had been one OF these
struggles that any person might
claim all the way. Neither player
had enough advantage at any time
to shout. And the only thing that
both could lay claim to-even II they
didnt-was feeling OF real fatigue
And though they didn't say so, they
showed H.
The one thing that stands out
above everything else as the result
OF the tournament is that Sarazen
Is no, only fash IN the pan as they
thought he was when he came home
ahesd OF the field at skokle.
Every inch of five feet and a lit
tie over is championship material.
Sarazen gained an advantage at
the second hole in the morning when
he dropped after French had
played an iron shot over the green.
They hslved the next two and Gene
added another TO his credit with
4 on the fifth. Then French assert
ed himself with 2 on the short
sixth. They halved the next and
then Il was squared when French's
took the eighth, par hole. But
Sarazen slapped a birdie into the
hole at the ninth and was l up at
the turn. Sarazen was out In 80.
French in 40, not n good score at |
all for a title match. Both were
nervous and missing easy shots. The
ong grind was telling.
Coming in they halved the tenth
and eleventh. then Gene went un-
usually bad on the twelfth for a 8
that lost the hole. He made up for
It in measure with a beautiful 3
atter being trapped at the thirteenth.
They halved the fourteenth. The fif-
teenth went TO Gene, but he lost the
sixteenth. A birdie gave him the
Seventeenth, and when they halved
the eighteenth. the match was right
where It had started in the morn
ing. all even.
The card:
Sarazen--
out .54 54s4 4-ss
In a 6 s4 4 4 1911 |
French
Out 54552 "A e-+o
In 445 8 5 3 4-36-76
The gallery had increased 10 NAM
moth proportions when the after
noon grind started. Sarazen won
the first hole with a birdie 4, laying
an approach dead, while French
vas short with his. The second was
lalved In As and the third in SIS,
'arazen, with two puts for a win
n this, playing carelessly and over
INNING the cup so that he missed
oming back. French won the
ourth with a birdie 4 and the fifth |
as halved in As.
Sarazen won the sixth with a 3, /
hen French took 5 after being
but Gene took a half dozen
nots in a trap going TO seven and
nally picked up. They halved the
ghth in As, then Gene started his
rive
French was trapped and finally
ct 6. while Ssrazen sank bir-
lie 4. Gene got another birdie
N the tenth, and won that along F,
WIN the eleventh. on which he reg
stored par four 10 French's five. I
Emmett was showing signs OF wear '
ana was just short of a trap on his I
IRON then picked away beyond the
pm. The twelfth was halved I'm SIS, +
though sarazen was trapped from
ehe lee. The thirteenth went to
sehe and made him four up with
nNe 70 go French was trapped on
ms ana hnally took 4. while Gene.
on from the tee, was down wi,b
3. They halved the fourteenth e
when sarazen missed a ten-foot nu.,
for win. and it ended at tho az
ieenth when both got fours.
The card:
Sarazen-
Out m 445 s4s'4
In -. 4 3 "A