The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-25
Quaker Ridge Pro Takes
National Title From
Famed Albanian.
DECIDED ON LAST HOLE
Eight-Foot Putt Tells the
Tale.
BY FRANK GETTY
United Press Sports Editor

OLYMPIA FIELDS, CHI
CAGO, June 25.-After a
playoff packed with drama to
the last putt, Johnny Farrell of
Quaker Ridge is open golf
champion of the United States.
Bobby Jones, twice winner of the
title and present amateur cham
pion, just couldn't "get hot" in the
Sunday rain, and so lost to Farrell
by single stroke.
Three times in the past six years
playoff has been necessary to decide
the national open championship.
Jones has participated in all three,
but this one at Olympia Fields under
dripping gray skies was the most
dramatic of all.
1t would be unfair to say that
Johnny Farrell outgamed Bobby in
the extra thirty-six-hole match
which decided the championship
after the New York pro and the At
lanta amateur had tied with aggre-
gates of 294 at the eod of the first
four rounds.
Spectacular Finish
But gameneSs was the hall mark
of the new champions game as the
pair battled through the downpour
to the final hole. 1t was grin
against grimness, as the two fought
to the greatest finish gallery at an
open championship ever has wit
neSsed-and the grin won.
81 hope I can live up to it." said
Johnny, with that ready, infectious
smile of his, as they handed him
the big silver cup. Farrell has tried
nine times to win the open title, and
this is his first success, 1t means
between $4,000 and 100000 to him
within the next year, counting the
return from exhibition matches, en-
dorsements and other lucrative en-
gagementS.
Farrell squared the match at the
31st hole, where the new champion
nearly sank his tee shot. A birdie
two to Jones' par three put Farrell
on even terms. Both had tossed
away chances up until this point.
They halved the next two holes
in par figures.
Johnny Takes Lead
At the short thirty-fourth Bobby
pushed his tee shot over the edge of
the green. He tried desperately to
chip back dead, but his ball stopped
thirty feet from the cup and he
couldn't get the putt down. Johnny
laid his pitch nicely on the green
and was down in par to Bobby's
four, thus gaining the lead he never
relinquished.
At the seventeenth Farrell sliced
into the rough. 1t looked like Bob
by's chance and he slapped his tee
shot straight down the fairway.
From deep rough Johnny laid an
iron shot one foot from the pin.
Jones was on with his second, but
twenty-five feet from the pin, and
it looked as though the match was
over. Bobby Jones is never beaten,
however, until the last putt goes
down. The Albanian sank the Is
footer and they halved the hole in
birdie threes.
He Sank the Putt
Then came the eighteenth equally
spectacular Farrell, forcing smile,
pushed his tee shot to the right and
hooked his second into the rough
at the left. Jones, with nerves of
iron, was straight for the green in
two and Clipped up to within two
feet of the cup.
At this point it seemed as though
the amateur champion was certain
to win the hole and square the
match, for Farrell was about eight
feet from the cup with his pitch
from the rough.
Johnny sank that putt and won
the title.
The cards for the playoff:
Par
EI' : :..:.::... 3-44s4-5s-35-ss-7l
MORNING ROUND
Jones
In .............. 4-4-4-3-4~4-3-4-5-35-
Farrell
out ,,,,...... 5-5-4-4-4-2-5-4-437
In ............. 3-5-4-3-5-4-2-3s4-33-7
AFTERNOON ROUND
Jones
Out ........,.,. 4-4-6-3-3-3-4-3-6-36
In ......ss sss.. 4-4-4-3-4-5-4-3- =35-71
Farrell
p Out .: :: S Sss-ss-s-4s
Totals for thirty-six holes: Jones, 144;
Farrell, 143.
LIKES HIM AS COACH
Joe Wood, former major league