The New York herald., 1922-10-12
MACFARLANE WINS
OPEN GOLF TITLE
Makes Fine Uphill Fight to
Capture Westchester Open
With 140.


When golfer reaches the phil
osophicai stage where. when a hole or a
round goes wrong, he can lightly dis
Miss tho matter and assure himself
that tomorrow will be another day and
that the next tournament will be along
soon. there is hope for him. Despite all
arguments TO the contrary. arguments
generally advanced by those who like
the fellow with the chip on his shoulder.
the philosopher is as dangerous as INT
or botullsm. He is the chap who usually
slips In ahead when the favorite, con-
sumed with desire to live up to his
reputation. slips suddenly and unex-
pectedly Into the slough Of despond.
Such golfer as that described 10
Willie Macfarlane OF Oak Ridge. and
IT was because Of these traits and char
acteristics and his ability to look upon
the bright side of a game Of golf that
said player came through yesterday on
the Quaker Ridge links and won the
Westchester County Golf Association
open championship title right from un-
der the nose of Johnny Farrell. who
not only lives there but was expected
! to win.
| Macfarlane scored 14s for his thirty
| - hNiS NOldi anu won Dy Il stroke from
Jimmy Farrell Of Quaker Ridge and
George Mclean of Grassy Sprain. who
tied at $50. The favorite, Johnny Far
rell, who was leading in the morning
with card Of 70. fell off to 70 on the
second round and tied for fourth with
george Thomson of Mount Vernon
| Country Club at ISL.
Long ago Macfarlane ceased to worry
about the outcome Of golf champion
ship. He has way of hanging on the
fringe Of most of the events which he
enters, but when things do break badly
after a propitious start Willie merely
laughs and says: IT'S nothing worth
worrying over. Only one man can win.
In every tournament 1t seems that nine
tenths OF the players start feeling that
they ought to win. They must be disap-
pointed. l am never"
| Farrell Has Good Lead.
In this frame OF mind Macfarlane went
out playing in the Westchester open
He was paired with Johnny Farrell, the
favortte, and he saw Johnny live up to
expectations on the first eighteen holes
AT noon Farrell seemed headed for the
titie- AS for Macfarlane. he was going
along according to the old plan and
worrying not at all because he was four
strokes behind the leader
! Macfarlane and Farrell went out
again for the concluding round and bv
the time they had reached the turn the
Oak Ridge man was thinking less than
ever of the title which was slipping
| away somewhere else. AS In the morn
ing he had taken 80 to reach the turn.
while Farrell. although two worse than
in the morning, had improved Macfar-
NAE b., Oh T-l~
now leading Willie by FIVE strokes The
latter was thinking with delight of the
large pear tree in his back yard which
he intended to relieve of its load of
fruit on the morrow
Willie was so delighted with himself
that he scarcely noticed the string OF
three 3s which started him on the return
Journey Nor did he notice the three
shots which he straightway Topped from
Farrells score. Two holes further on,
when Farrell trapped HIS drive and hit
the ball on the top, taking Z for the
hole, McFarlane was still shaking that
pear tree fguratlvely. and probably did
not notice that he had the score tied.
Then MacFarlane got a at the par
fifteenth and walked still further away
when Farrell hooked into a trap on the
seventeenth and used up six strokes
Macfarlane here took 4. Even birdie {;
on the home hole could not repair the
| damage. MacFarlane had here, and
with this he rounded out a card of 70
and a thirty-six hole total Of l49.
Jimmy Makes a BID.
But while Jimmy was slipping another
member OF the Farrell family was striv-
| ing. might and main, TO keep the title at
Quaker Ridge. Jimmy Farrell had "a
in the morning. but IS was the best he
could do in the afternoon, for by a
strange coincidence he, like his brother,
had q at the fourteenth. BY way OF
commemorating the strange case of the
Farrell brothers. who lost the champion
ship at the same spot, the Quaker Ridge
members are considering erecting tab
| let on the face of that bunker at the
| fourteenth.
And had there been any more holes
left 10 play George Mclean probably
would have been right In with both feet.
The Grassy Splain "pro" required 80 In
the morning. and he started with a z
in the afternoon. but from that point on
there Is no denying that he played golf.
He was out in 36 and home in 90 for a
20. That left him tied for second with
Jimmy Farrell. MacFarlane's card:
MORNING ROUND.
fn 2p' ............ .......... ~ & 3 Gsg-7s
AFTERNOON ROUND.
T1' TS .......... ''....'... : 3 & 3 : SE$sI7s
McLean's second round compares with
the par OF the course as follows: