The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-06-10

So is Walter Hagen. 1t is az
course, however. that may yield to
the long irons favored by Gene
Sarazen and Mac Smith and it will
not treat unkindly the timid golfer
who prefers safety above the un-
certainty of holiness.
Johnny Farrell. the 1928 cham
pion Just returned to America after
finishing second to Hagen in the
British open golf championship,
was discussing today the impending
American open in connection with
some of it's leading figures and, in
so doing, gave an 1mpersonal analy-
sis of what the course will demand
and what the individual favorites
may be prepared to give. d.
IL seemed to be his impress
sion that the admitted bOldness
with which Jones and Hagen
60 for the pin may prove their
undoing at Winged Foot some
two weeks hence.
"They are stroke-savers around
the green's" he explained. But
these greens have deep, furrowed
traps like Oakmont, precluding
anything but an explosion shot,
and their usual stroke-saving in
the bunkers is liable to be hamp-
cred, If not altogether nullified.
OF course, If they are hitting
their long irons straight, that will
be another story. But, as I see
it, they simply must hit these shots
on the line or become resigned to
those deep traps exacting their toll
of strokes. For. you see, neither
Jones nor Hagen Is the type to
compromise about thing like that;
they go fearlessly for the flag and
this is one course where you either
make the perfect shot to the green
or add a couple Of strokes to your
score"
Farrell, who beat Jones in play
off for the title at Olympia Field
last year, has played winged foot
for years and knows 1t more init.
mately than any other entry, bar
ring Mike Brady, the home profes-
sional. John is certain that 295
won't be broken: in fact, he believes
that 800 won't be more than a stroke
or two outside the winning score.
He protested not to have the slight
est idea who will furnish the magic
figures, but reluctantly admits that
he fears the worst for Leo Diegel
and Horton Smith.
Both hit low irons and these
won't do on this course" he ex.
planned. '"The greens are too
small, too elevated and too
tightly trapped to make this
cIOsed.face approach effective.
Besides, Leo hates clover"
This latter is one of the added
starters in the list of national handi.
caps arranged by the course for the
open championship. Jones got all he
wanted of 1t during a recent prac-
tice round or two some days ago.
And 1t will be worse for the cham
pionship, since 1t only was beginning
to grow at that time as a result of
the continued rains this spring. Two
weeks hence 1t will be in full bloom.
Hagen hasn't played the course
in more than a year but, accord
ing to FarrelI's ideas. neither he
nor Jones will be more than nor~
mally bothered by this growth on
the fairways. Their own temerity
plus the unsympathetic attitude of
the traps toward their favorite
chip-shot "outs" is their greatest
menace, he thinks.
When Hagen wins, he always
does it with a mashie niblic,"
Farrell added.
1t was inferred from this remark
that the mashie niblic was not q
thing one should lean too heavily
upon in essaying a joust with PAL.
on this course. How, then, to go
about 1t? Only two ways, it
seemed. Hit that long, accurate
iron. which no one can guarantee
to do with these pocket.handker-
chief green to shoot at; or play
safe short Of trouble and rely upon
chip shots to save strokes.
I asked Farrell how he himself