New Britain herald., 1929-06-29
NEW CHAMPION ID
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Final @ Holes to Be Played lt
 Xin6M Foot Course

MamafOneck, N. 1n June ~ WI Thirty-six holes of nerve testing golf today stood between some gifted amateur or professional and tho highest prize the game has to offer in the United states. Unless there is a 72-hole tie necessitating . play off, before the sun sinks over the we'll protected greens of the Winged
 Foot Golf club, new champion will be crowned.
 The gallery will have it's chance to shout, ''the king is dead, long live the king" for new champion will wear the purple of golf royalty. Johnny Farrell. the ruling monarch for the year ending today. was swept out of the competition with a flood of lives and sixes. even sev- ems and eights. Johnny passed out almost unnoticed with S4-S3-167. With 36 holes behind them and the halfway mark reached scant six or eight were in position % make final desperate bid. Most Of them have known high golf honors before, others were confident that their hour was about to strike. Two full-fledged Americans. whose forbears came across the sea, from sunny Italy and no less sunny Spain, went into the last days play tide for the lead. Gene sarazen. New York. former cham pion. and Al Espinosa. Chicago, scored 142 for the first S6 holes. Another tie was recorded for sec ond place with Bobby Jones and Densmore Shute, Columbus, Ohio, who recently became a pro after q sparkling career as an amateur, deadlocked at IA, close behind was Tommy Armour, 1927 champion, with 145.
 The dead heat was further ex- tended into the next group where Leonard D. Schmutte, Lima, Ohio, pro who plays his best game in the championship, and Leo Diegel, with great fighting spirit that has car ried him to other great titles but never the" championship, stood at 14s. Close enough to make their presence felt if the golf lightning should strike, George Won Elm, De- trcit. former amateur champion. with 149. followed by Craig Wood, Bloomfield N. J., Wiffy Cox. Brook lyn, and Peter O'Hara, Verona, Pa. with scores of 15O each.
 All the late starters in the sec ond days competition had to dry out before they could start the third round. A rain that for sheer wet ness took rank with any that has soaked a national open competition swept down upon the field in the early afternoon with mixed results. Some of the contestants saw balls stop on the sodden greens that would have slipped past before tha storm. others failed to allow for the slowness of the soaked fairways in contrast to the fast surface of pre- vious days. and still others, notably Armour, Won Elm and Jones simp- ly ignored the rain.
 The weather handicap was not re- stricted, however, to the after luncheon pairs. A tricky and at times strong wind caused much trouble before noon, causing some of the struggling stars to declare that they did not mind the weather if the wind doesn't blow" That was. of course. before the rain.
 Where 14S stars of varying degree skirted the rough and exploded from the sand traps in the first two days play. only 67 were given the free dom of the tees today. After the last putt was holed for the second IS, the list was arbitrarily reduced to the low 60 and ties. All who scored more than 159 were eliminat- ed.
 In addition to Johnny Farrell, two other members of the American Ryder cup team packed up their clubs. Ed. Dudley and Joe TurIesa. So did Roland Hancock. a near win- ner last year. We'll known amateurs included Harrison R. Johnston. Ed die Held. Eddie Driggs George Noight and Ross Somerville.
 me eN1t cue TOT pros WaS HloTe or less heart breaking for they will have to so out some June day next year and qualify for the 1930 open which will be held at the Interlachen club. Minneapolis. If they had been permitted to play today and man. aged to finish among the first 30' they would have been exempt from the always hazardous qualifying l ordeal.
 The amateurs may have to make room for the pros before the fina! | gun is fired but they went into the third test with a clean slate. George | Won Films 70 was the best score for l the second day as Bobby Jones' 69 showed the way in the opening l parade.
 Sarazen scored Fl, one under par. as did Armour, Shute and Wood. Esplnosa equalled par with 72. Die gel, not always 50 consistent. had the same score two days in a row. "A. Jones had to be satisfied with 75. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS