The New York herald., 1922-03-05
Leo Diegel Is Second in New
Orleans Tourney With
Card of 302.
WALKER IN THIRD PLACE
Jock HutchisOn. British Cham
pion. Scores 303. Five Better
Than jim Barnes.

Special Dispatch TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New ORLEANS, La. March 4.-Those
two young thoroughbred golfing colts.
Gene Sarazen of Pittsburgh and Leo
Diegel of the local club, hooked UP in
a stirring duel in the last two rounds
of the Southern open championship
here to-day, and although. Diegel made
gallant fight to overcome the lead of
his younger opponent he was forced to
trail the fine playing youngster, who
was once caddy at the Apawamis
Club near New York.
Starting the morning round five
strokes behind his rival Diesel by virtue
OF some stellar golf by noontime had
cut the lead of Sarazen to three shots
1t looked as if the local luminary would
win the first prize of 81 900. But in the
afternoon Sarazen cut loose with such
a fine round of golf that he not only won
with plenty to spare, but captured the
prize for the best round of the tourna-
ment. His last round Of gave him
total of 294 for the meeting. He was the
only new player in the field, in fact, to
break 800.
Diegel had to be content with a score
of 302. which gave him second money by
Two strokes. Cyril Walker Of the Engle
wood Club was third. with score
304, and then came Jock Hutchison. Brit
ish open champion, with a score of sos.
His touring partner, Long Jim Barnes
United States open champion, finished
i'll a tie with Freddie Mcleod of Colum-
bia for seventh place. Charles loffnei
OF Philadelphia and Peter o. Hara. un-
attached. finished ahead of Mcleod and
Barnes. Willie Melhorn. Tom Lally
r,,Il l,,IrS tlaa hans
10 finish in the money.
Earns His Victory.
Sarazen from the start played beauti-
fnl golf and deserved his victory. Par
ticularly did the lad play well around
the greens. His approaches were gen.
orally on the pin and his putting was
deadly accurate. In the afternoon, in
stead Of slipping off. as many figured
he would, the youngster came back
with a beautiful round, the best of the
lot, and vindicated the judgment of
those who declare he is real golfer
who is well on his way TO becoming
champion.
Sarazen has played fine golf in the
various Southern tournaments this win
-ter and has proved on each occasion
that he is player who must henceforth
be reckoned with. His two rounds to-
day we're made as follows
MORNING ROUND
1% npt .........: .....:... : 7 ) S-aS-7s 10
AFTERNOON ROUND.
Out .......... 5-36
In ............ 4-36-t2
Diegel of course has by this time
established himself as great little
player. He showed flashes of wonderful
form to-day, but was not playing as
well as Sarazen The local star kept in
the running most OF the way by his
wonderful recoveries. He managed to
null off sensational shot Of some kind
on the majority of holes. Time and
again he emerged from trap safely
after it looked as il he must surely be
forced TO the rear.
Jock starts We'll.
Jock Hutchison started TO burn up the
course in the morning but took three
puts on the last two greens going out.
At last he had a 36, one over par, and
was right in line for crack at the
championship But at the tenth hole he
took three more puts. and instead of
having So or TO- as he might have
done, the Hutch wound up with 70. In
the afternoon he failed to hold place. He
and Barnes are somewhat fatigued from
their long tour and not on edge for
tournament play.
The Pelham star scored badly in the
morning. due mostly to poor putting. on
several greens he had as many as four
puts. Determined to show his real l
worth the big fellow stepped out in the
afternoon and played a grand round OF
73. He too had an excellent chance TO
break 20. as he went out in 35 and was
going strong. At the fifteenth hole he
was two under fours. At the sixteenth
he missed short putt for a and at
the seventeenth he took three extra pltts
for 6.
Freddie Mcleod after a poor start
yesterday made a great comeback to-
day to eprn tie with Barnes for sew
enth pl..se. Hoffner and OHara. al
though they did not perform brilliantly.
were steady all the way
Three thousand dollars in prizes were
distributed to ten players. The winners
were as follows: