Evening star., 1925-06-05

4dliu, VIII lOOhS more ike SCnOOl
playing today at the Worcester Coul
pionship.
The l8-hole battle for the title
started this morning, with Jones a
: for this title in two years.
Jones and Bobby Cruickshank.
open championship at 1nwood two
won.
A great play-off is this affair today.
On one hand, the amateur golf cham
pion of the Nation, a former holder
OF the open championship, young. en-
gaging and conceded to be the leading
stylist and shot maker of the world,
either amateur or professional On
the other, a. tall. lean son of Caledonia
professional at the Oak Ridge Club
in Westchester County, New York,
man of fine personality and a really
great golfer.
Jones should win. as he won at
Inwood. solely on the strength of his
marvellous adherence TO par figures.
but MaCFarlane'S record in this cham
pionship, his out nine of 80 on We'd
nesday and his in nine of 33 yester
day in his third round showed what
the Oak Ridge pro can do.
Strangely enough. too, MacFarlane
entered this title chase with but 13
games of golf played this year and no
attempt at practice, such as some of
the pros believe in. He has played
only a very few games around his
home course and reached Worcester
keen and not stale.
Great Chance for Glory.
Should Bobby Jones win he will
take his place with Chick Evans as
a man who has held both the amateur
and open championship at the same
time. Evans won the open at Mini
khada in June of 1916 and the anna
teur at Merton in September of the
same year. Jones won the amateur
at Merton last Fall.
Should MacFarlane win it will mean
for him many thousands of dollars
In cash, great prestige and fame, and
will heighten the place he won yes
terday as a golfer of the first rank.
Jones and MacFarlane tied for first
place in the championship yesterday
with scores of POI, each man kicking
away several chances to win, with
MacFarlane finally holing IAN lS-inch
putt on the last green to tie America S
finest amateur. who had preceded him
by an hour.
Hagen, Ouimet and Espinosa were
still out. each with a chance to win,
but one by one, the championship
strain took its toll. and under the hot
sun of the Worcester hills the hopes
of these three men went glimmering
Ouimet had the finest chance. but
pulled niblick shot at the sixteenth
cost him the chance to tie with his
pal, Jones. Hagen needed super golf
on the last three holes to tie, while
Espinosa took too many puts over
the final stretch.
Diegel Takes Eight.
The downfall of Leo Diegel. former
Washington pro, was dramatic. Over
whelming the Glen Oaks pro with
its suddeness and severity, Diegel was
absolutely shattered after the last
four holes of the last nine. At the
end of the first nine on his final
round he was tied with Macfarlane.
led Jones and Hagen by three shots
and Farrell by two shots.
But one by one they faded. leaving
but Jones and Macfarlane struggling
to the eighteenth to tie. Diegel faded
with many others, running into a
on the 430-yard twelfth hole when he
topped a tee shot, taking a on the
par 3 thirteenth and another 5 on
the par fourteenth, when he pitched
into a trap. He settled down from
this point and needed 5, 4, I, to tie
He got the 5 and the two fours and
then fate stepped in to throw the
d
liant youngster.
Leo came to the eighteenth with
q 3 to tie Jones. Macfarlane was
not then in. Try fng to get great dis
tance over knob on the eighteenth
fairway to give him an open shot at
the hole, nestled on the short edge
of a terraced green 335 yards away.
he topped his tee shot absolutely. A
wildly hooked iron shot 100 yards off
the line left him that distance from
the green. He then pitched short Of
a trap guarding the green on the left.
Up came his head on his fourth shot
and his ball went into the trap. The
Diegel debacle was complete He
pitched out over the green, Clipped
back on and was down in a CHASTITY
s. to finish with 296, in eighth place.
First Round Is Poor.
Of course, Leo played badly yes
terday morning to score a II after
he had been tied with Willie Mac
farlane for first place at the end of
the first 36 holes. But even at that
he was out over the afternoon
stretch in "a and with an in nine
of SO, or par. would have won. Ner-
vous and hurried, Leo blew himself
out of the title by his terrible play on
the twelfth and thirteenth and the
CHASTITY exhibition on the final
Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase fin
tshed with a total for the day of 155,
made up of d 79 and a rs, a creditable
performance, under the soaring heat
and high wind which swept the course,
for a 72.hole total of 319.
Macfarlane, with a great in nine
of 33 for n card of 70, led at the
end of the fifty-fourth hole, one shot
in front of Johnny Farrell, who got
a fine SO in the third round Jones,
with the bit in his teeth, came to the
sixteenth with three fours for a 67,
only to finish with three fves. all
due to missed puts Of less than eight
feet. His total at the end of the third
round was PIT. four shots back of
MaCfarlane and three shots behind
Farrell. Diegel was a shot behind
him, and in came Francis Ouimet
former amateur and open champion,
with an easy 13 to go into third place
while Al Espinosa, his partner, tied
with Jones at 217. Hagen in the
meantime. after his bad round of rs
the afternoon previous, was around in
II. and was seven shots back.
Tied Up to Last Round
At the turn on the final round
Diegel and Mcfarlane were tied with
totals for SO holes of 242 1t looked
!, like Diegeps championship, for he was
going great, while Macfarlane was
plainly slipping. Jones and Hagen
were PAS and Farrell 244. But Jones
kept serenely on his way, holing a
birdie at the short tenth. only to lose
the Shot back to par at the eleventh.