The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-05-10
WALTER HAGEN 'COMES BACK
TO WIN BRITISH GOLF CROWN
Worlds Greatest Player Scores
292; Johnny Farrell Sec.
ond With 298
RYDER CUP DEFEAT AVENGED
Pictured on Downward Path,
The Haig' Produces an
Unbeatable Game

waiter daRcn LOQdy WOn INC open
golf championship of Great Britain
for the fourth time with a score of
292 for the u holes championship
play.
For a time after the champion fin
ished there was some confusion at his
score, a question Of doubt arising as
to whether his total should be 292
or 293. It had been reported that
his ball moved as he addressed it on
the third hole Of his last round and q
penalty stroke was tentatively added.
Later It was officially announced that
the championship committee found
no evidence that the ball had moved,
so his final round was scored IS for
q grand total of 292, the same score
by which he won the title last year
at Sandwich.
Bobby Cruickshank finished with a
score Of sol. Watrous 303, Armour
30S, Jimmy Thompson 308.
Johnny Farrell Second
Johnny Farrell, open champion of
the United States. finished with a
sparkling round of IS and with Y
hole score of 208 went into second
place.
Walter Hagen's fourth triumph in
the British open championship came
after many Of the experts had count
ed THE Haig" out and pictured him
as on the downward path. But he
duplicated his comeback OF 1928. Last
year he rallied to win the British
title after being crushed by Archie
Compston in match play. This year
he won after being overwhelmed by
George Duncan in the Ryder cup
matches.
Hagen's latest triumph represents
his eleventh major national cham
pionship. In addition to four victor
les in the British classic he has won
the United States open title twice and
the United States professional cham
pionstip five times.
Jones, His Only Rival
His only rival in this respect In
modern golfing times Is Bobby Jones
whose Collection Of eight titles in
cludeS four In the United States anna
teur and two each in the United
States and British opens.
Back in 1914, Hagen. fresh from the
caddy house at Rochester, N. Y, won
his first American open champion
ship at the Midlothian club, Chicago.
He was % years old. Five years later
he repeated at Brae Burn. He was
runner-up in 1921 and occupied third
place in 1925. sixth in 1927 and fourth
in 1928.
THE Haig' began his invasion of
Europe in 1920 and won the French
open after finishing fifty-fifth in his
first try at the British championship
Back In England again, he was sixth
In 1921 and beat the field for the
first time In 1922. The next year he
was runner-up. a stroke behind the
only British winner Of recent years,
Arthur Havers. and won the title a
second time in 1924. Hagen was third
In 1926 and again came through to
win last year. so that he has now been
victorious four times in eight years.
Leo Diegel Third
Leo Oiegel returned q score Of ~
for the last round and with q total Of
200 went into third place. behind
Walter Hagen and Johnny Farrell
and in front OF Abe Mitchell and
Percy Arliss, who were tied at 800.
Bobby Cruickshank, native Scot
who lives in New York, finished sixth
with Z score of 301. AL Watrous, De-
troit, seventh with 303 and Gene sar-
azen. eighth, 304. Tommy Armous. an
other Scot who lives in the United
States, was next with sos, followed by
Arthur Havers, former champion
500. Archie Compston. 307. and Jim
mie Thompson Of Knoxville, Tenn.
30S.
Hagen received the familiar cup,
emblematic Of the championship on
the spacious 18th green with people
jammed 10 rows deep around 1t. He
was besieged by autograph hunters
and crowds wishing to congratulate
him, and when time came for the
ceremony he had to be rescued by
burly Scots and taken to the enclos-
ure where officials awaited.
He finally reached the green. arm
in arm. with Jose Juarado, the dimin-
utive pro from Argentina.