Evening star., 1923-07-15

OF the younger players who is sure
The amateur is Bobby Jones
Harvard University. The protest.
Shackamaxon Club of New Jersey, a
locked today at the Inwood Club '
medal play. The play-otf will be h
Cruikshank, who started ten holes b
hole OF his final round when the
to win. He threw the championship
redeemed it on the eighteenth in OF
seen in any line of sport. He cam
the par four hole to tie Jones. Tv
get down from the edge of the 81
to tie with at this 425-yard affair.
Cruikshank hit fine ball off the
tee, splitting the middle with the shot.
His nigh iron played with spin to
held the fast green, lit on the far
bank of the hazard and rolled up to
within five feet from the hole. AS his
stance a yell of JOY went up from the
throats of 5000 persons banked
around the picturesque green.
That veil rent the skies. but it was
as nothing 10 the deep roar that went
up as his ball dropped into the cup
for 3. Scotland had tied America
for the worlds greatest prize in golf
The reign of the homebred American
player had been challenged by a son
of Scotland, who was not figured to
W iii ny any OF the experts.
Last Hole Hurts Jones.
An hour before Bobby Jones had
come to this same home hole with
for "a and total of 294. He had
played it twice yesterday in g. and
this morning he had 4. He had
every reason to expect another 4. for
the hole is apparently just suited to
the Jones mashie shot. But Bobby
hooked his second behind post
Oh hot int
and wound up with a 6.
IF Jones loses in the pla--off to-
morrow he will never forget that fast
turn of his body into the iron shot
at the eighteenth. That caused him to
hook. Bur even if he loses. and he
probably won't he has made the finest
record Of anv amateur in open cham
pionships He hasn't won vet. he may
not tomorrow, but at least he has fin-
ished second twice in succession. The
pros concede Jones to be the greatest
medal player in this country.
Cruik shank. on the other hand. will
never forget that high. floating iron
shot into the wind at the eighteenth
or the putt which banged against
the back of the tin to tie.
Big Four Fai..
The so-called big four did a com
plcte flop. Hagen finished with 311,
doing an Sc on his last round. in
which Cruikshank was playing with
MIN. SaTdZen n2O three DaQ ROUNDS.
an 80 this afternoon giving him to-
tai of 80. Macdonald Smith. picked
as the dark horse" finished two
shots back of SaraZen, shooting an
81 this morning. Jim Barnes, winner
in 1921. tied with Joe Kirllwood for
eleventh place at 30S, while Jock
Hutchison of Chicago. who led the
field yesterday with 40, blew com
pletely today and finished in third.
Jock had his had round in the third
m m nf
the picture.
Leo Diegel of Washington tied with
Al Watrous. the Canadian open cham
pion' for eighth place at, at 3os- Lee Leo
added to his l54 total of yesterday.
Had Diegel been putting well today,
he might have taken half dozen
strokes off his score. but the ball
wouldn't drop for the Friendship pro-
fessional.
No one else was near the two
Robs. Hutchison, in third place. was
Ar strokes back, and Jack Forester
of Rideewood, n. j., was seven, while
JOHN Farrell of Quaker Ridge. one
of the best of our young home breds,
tied with Willie Reekiee- a New Jer-
Sey amateur, and Peter Gallett of
Port Washington, n. Y, for fifth. at
304.
Finish Is Dramatic.
Cruikshank's finish against such
tremendous odds as he faced when he
Napped on the seventeenth tee was
dramatic. thrilling and sensational.
Bob had taken a on the sixteenth,
after he had three As to win the title.
He looked bad. taking to get
down from the edge of the green and
Jones was conceded the championship.
Cruikshank had to play the next two
holes in strokes to tie. He hooked
his ball off the seventeenth to the
sixteenth fairway, but got home, and
a long. curling putt for nearly
dropped. Then he banged a long,
low ball down the middle of the 1
eighteenth. stepping into an iron shot
that stopped five feet from the pin
and sank the putt.
Seldom are such finishes seen in
national golf pionships. Inspired
golf. the kind that brings man
through the gravest difficulties, gave
CruikshaEk a tie and another chance
at the title. The two Bobs played
together in the qualifying rounds:
They play tomorrow for the title
There must be some magic in the
name.
Jones. finest stylist of them al, had
the championship laid away coming
to the sixteenth. He had three As
6. He hooked his second shot out of
lounds- at the sixteenth. the same
hole that cost Cruikahank' 6
Two hundred and ten yards from the
mole BobDy Iald MS fourth shot, a
full midiron up against the pin and
sank the putt. He had made three
actual shots on this hole. But
hooked drive was followed by a
hooked iron shot and a on the
seventeenth resulted. Then came the
eighteenth, where Jones blew himself
out of the championship. temporarily
at least. .
Seventh Is Unlucky.
~ .onesy loses Tomorrow he can also
blame the seventh hole. Its ter
ror. and 1T caused Jones a pair of
5s today. Both rounds he hooked his
tee shot out of bounds. But Bobby
had but 81 puts in his last round
today. That helps a lot. If Cruik-
shank loses he Will look back at the
fifth role with miagivings. Here he
hooked his third shot under a board,
was trapped, and wound up with Z
When Jones finished with 296,
CruikGhank was on, the seventh He
had just laid his tee shot at the short
sixth q yard from the hole and ran
down a 2.-~ A chip shot dead to the
cup gave him a 3 at the seventh,
and he holed a twenty-foot putt at
the eighth for a 2. Three brides in
a row for Cruiksnank. He had
at the ninth and needed "a SO baI k
to win on the easiest ninth,
He started back 3, 4. 8. took a 5
at the thirteenth and 5 at the four
reenth. where his second shot was
trapped to the left-then took three
puts from the edge of the fifteenth
green for a 4. Then came the fatal