Evening star., 1923-07-14

championship. Gene Sarazen, dark-l
still is champion until he holes out h
today, but the crown is not only tott
until it will take a true miracle on
to keep il from falling off. Miracles
such course as Inwood, where th'
sorrow to the heart OF many of the c
Shot fade gently into trap or a wa
- Jock ia Hutch, inspirational, hi
of any goli ;fiaycr in the world when
shots are ccuIfg off, began the last
a slim lead .nscr Bobby Jones-hiS II
are struggling all the way down Il
lnwood today to decide the holder (
won along about o'clock this afterl
Hutchinson started out today with
two stroke lead over Jones. with
a total of lI2 for yesterdays play
against i4i for Bobby. But the
three shots back of the Chicago
marvel is little Bobby Cruickshank.
pro at ShackamaXon. with total OF
li5. The battle of the Bobs may be
a feature OF the final round this
afternoon, if Hutchison fades out of
the picture early in the day.
Hutch Gets the Breaks.
Everything broke right for the
Hutch yesterday. He cannot expect
such breaks today, although he may
retain MS STREAK OIL SOlI IOT lnt en-
tire four rounds of the champion
ship. If he does he will have done
something he never has been able
to do before-retain Il lead in an
american championship. The Hutch
would be most popular champion.
but so would Bobby Jones.
This business Of exporting is some
times dangerous and sometimes the
picker leaves himself way out on q
limb, but if we We're to select
the new champion we would pick
Jones. He looks like the finest bet
in this mans field And he is in the
the temperamental Hutchison and
playing the steadiest possible brand
of golf. Bobby may get couple Of
long puts today. He didn' I sink
win the championship as easy as
rolling. off a log. for that is the diff
ference between his score and that
of Hutchison's yesterday.
The favorites Topped badly yester-
DAY. Macdonald Smith dubbed him
self into a fairly good position, with
brace of 77s-the same total as
that of Leo Diegel of Washington, but
both Diegel and Smith are just bit
too far back. If there were but a half
dozen strokes separating them We
fodaH f'5l3e they don't look so good
Neither Diegel nor Smith can concede
Hutchison a twelve-stroke handicap
Jones leeway of ten shots and hope
to win.
Hagen Not Going Well.
Hagen is not so badly off. The
former champion started today ten
strokes behind Hutchinson and eight
strokes back of Jones. Hagen Is not
hitting the ball any too well how
ever and has complained OF muscu-
lar ailment. He is a great stretch
runner-quite the finest golfer in the
world at coming from behind, but he
has left himself a little too much to
do in this championship. Walter may
find himself today and nose himself
into third or even the runner-up
place. but he will have to play under
par to do it, considering the game
shot yesterday by Jones, Hutchison
and Cruickshank.
The amateurs, with the single eX-
ception of Jones, are out OF 1t. Willie
Reekie of Upper Montclair finished
next to Bobby among the simon pures
yesterday with card of SO-!4-l54.
Sweetser. amateur champion. Chick
Evans of Chicago and Francis Ouimet.
former holder of the title, are way
back-too far away to hgure, Eddle
Held of St. Louis, former public
links champion, and recent winner of
the smississippi championship. is
next to Reekie with 155, while Ouimet
is next among the amateurs with l55.
Evans ana SWeetSer are well peiSh a.
lb9. They shot rounds of 79 and so
yesterday, while Ouimet was S2-75.
Held shot so and rs.
Others i'm the Running.
In an excellent position when play
began today were Jack Forester of
Ridgewood ~ j.. and Peter Gallett
of Port Washington, N. Y. These lads,
both youngsters. were tied at 14S
when play opened today. Al Watrous.
former Canadian open champion: who
was born within a few miles OF TINS
course, was 149, while Willie Ogg and
cyril Hughes were tied at $50. Two
shots back came Willie Meihorn,
Hagen and Jack Burke of st. Paul.
Spectators driving along the high
road to Inwood, just outside the CLUB
property. were amazed yesterday aft
ernoon to see blonde. red-faced,
white-clad golfer jump into the air.
crack his heels and let out a yell or
pure joy. 1t was the Hutch in one of
his familiar moods, when the putting
touch is with him and the iron finds
the line to the pin without urging.
The Hutch had just run down
twenty-fcct putt on the tricky ninth
hole to get himself out in 81, after
he wasted two clear shots at the
fourth. He was tickled to death. and
he showed it in the characteristic
Hutchinson way.
Jock is the Hughey Jennings of the
golf course. When he is not actually
making a shot he is striding up and
down, swinging at grass blades.
joking with spectators or joshing his
opponent. But when the Hutch is
inspired. as he was yesterday, he is
a different persona slashing. dash
ing knight errant sort of person, who
batters himself through and over op-
position by the sheer force of per-
aonality and magnetism. That was
Jock Yesterday The puts were
dropping and the cool winds off ia
nlaicca bay sang a song of long, true
iron shots that winged their way un-
errlngly on the line to the pin. Jock