Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-28
SARAzEN Downs
BARNES IN GOLF Ar
PELHAM MANOR

Pelham Manor. n. Y, Sept. 81
(By The A. P.1-Gene Sarazen, the
black haired youth, who stood the
golfing world on its head in 49,
with his amazing game, stepped 10
the fore today IN the Professional
Golfers Association championship
and won his way to the semi-finals
over Long Jim" Barnes. The
match ended on the Both and last
hole. in dramatic fashion.
Tomorrow Sala2en, who won the
professional and the open champion
ships last year, will meet Wee Bob
by" CruiClishank, of Westtield, n. j..
who ,triumphed today in an extra
hole match, with William MacFar-
lane of TucKahoe. CruickShank won
at the 39th hole. In the other half
OF the semi-dnal Walter Hagen, VIC
tor over Fred Mcleod, of Washing
ton, ) up and i, will play "Dapper
George Mclean of the Grassy
Sprain Club, BronXWille, whose UNI
canny putting eliminated Joe Kirk
wood, the Australian, > and 4.
Tenser moments than some of
those in the match between Sarazen
and Barnes probably snever were
experienced in golf match. Long
jim" was playing his home course,
a course on which he knows every
roll in every green, the soft spots
on fairway and the thickness of the
traps. Yet Sara2en took the lead on
the very first hole and was never
down to Long Jim.
With the match square. the last
hole on which strong tee shot will
reach the green, lying below knoll
and out of sight IRON the tee.
brought the end. Barnes bill sailed
straight over the knoll and appar-
emily was close to the pin. Sarazen
then was faced with the task of
playing perfectly or losing the
match. Over went his hall. 1t
seemed from the tee that he had
shot TO the left OF the green, but
the eyes do deceive.
Barnes ball was just off the
green; sixty feet from the pin; Sara
zen's was about 30 feet from home.
Barnes Clipped and his ball rolled
past the hole and 20 feet to the
far side. Sarazcn's approach
stopped within a yard of the cup.
tween Sarazen's ball and the cup
had three bumps in it. Yet Sara2en
evaded them all and holed out for
victory.
The thirty-nine hole match be-
tween Cruickshank and MacF'arlane
was the third OF tie week to so
beyond the Both.
Cruickshanli by remarkable putt
ing stood ) up on the little Scot
after the first nine but was only one
up at the 18th. Came then Wee
Bobby's" battle spirit when they
passed the 18th after the Scot was
up. Then Mactarlane bucled up
and won the 10th with birdie three
made possible by Il daring tee shot
over clump of trees while Cruick-
shank played the usual way around
the dog-lcg curve.
They halved the first two extra
holes but on the third MacFarlane's
second shot landed in a ditch and
his attempt at recovery only drove
the ball deeper into the mud. He
conceded defeat.
Hagen had no difficulty in dispos-
ing of Fred Mcleod. At the end
of the morning round Hagen was D
up, due in part to McLeod's ragged
putting. The match ended on the
14th green when they halved the
hole in skies.
Mclean by uncanny putting from
all distances finished the first is
holes > up on Joe Kirkwood. Joe
was away to a good start. playing
the first nine holes in SO and stood
l up on Mclean. Coming in he
lost the tenth, eleventh. twelfth and
thirteenth III succession to become
three down. He also dropped the
sixteenth and seventh.
Kirkwood managed to reduce Nc
Leans lead on the first of the after
noon round and stood only ) down
at the 9th but Mclean won the 18th
with a birdie two and ended the
match on the 32nd hole with birdie