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Show BARNES HO TITLE: mmm record Philadelphia Golfer, in Brilliant Bril-liant Form, Cuts Three From Old Mark. CHICAGO, Sept. 15. Breaking all records rec-ords for a seventy-two-hole open golf championship with a score of 2S3 strokes, James M. Barnes of Whltemarsh Valley club, Philadelphia, today won the open championship at Westmoreland Country club. The best previous championship score was 2S6, made by Chick Evans in the national open last year, and by Walter Hagen in the western open last summer. This was" two strokes better bet-ter than the score of Walter Hagen of Rochester, N. 1'., 1916 champion, and three strokes ahead of Jock Hutchinson of Glenview club, Chicago, in the eastern open championship. Emmett French of York, Pa., finished fourth with 292 and Fred McLeod fifth with 294. Barnes started the championship route In the first round on Thursday, scoring a record of sixty-seven and winning the special prize for the best eighteen holes. He added seventy-one strokes on Friday and was in the lead of the field of 136 starters with 138. He lost his cunning on the greens in the first half of the third round today, taking twenty-three putts for forty, but cut two under par on the second half for thirty-four and a total of 212, wiiile Hutchinson with a seventy-seven was 121 and Hagen with j a splendid sixty-nine was 213. Three large galleries followed the leaders through the last round. Brilliant Sprints. Hutchinson started badly, but with brilliant bril-liant spurts kept to thirty-eight for the first nine and did one better on the final half for a grand total of 2S6. Hagen, out in thirty-six, owing to a trapped second on the 484 -yard hole, which cost five, and a misadventure on the third for another five, came home in another thirty-six for par seventy-two and headed Hutchinson by one stroke. Hagen drove 300 yards on the 525-yard sixth, put his brassie on the green and barely missed a three. He lost a stroke in the 177-yajrd fourteenth by falling short in a triip. Short on the green at the home hole, Hagen hesitated, changed clubs, fell twelve feet short and took five, losing his title, as Barnes, playing rlosely behind, was coming home with 36-35-71 to add to his original lead of one stroke after the third round. On Home Stretch. Barnes had all pars out except one, and a birdie four on the 484-yard second hole cn needed that. Starting the final nine with a birdie three, the Philadel-phian Philadel-phian equalled par on the next five holes. 1 On the sixteenth he equalled the feat of Hutchinson and Hagen by driving the 305 -yard green over a hill and holed a birdie three, but, after driving 325 yards on the 425-yard seventeenth and putting a'mashle second ten feet from the cup, he over-ran the bole and missed the return re-turn putt, taking five. Driving 300 yards down the 453-yard fairway to the eighteenth, eight-eenth, Barnes sliced his second to the left side of the green fifty feet from the cup and took three putts for a par five. The three-cornered contest among an English, a Scotch and an American professional pro-fessional drew a large gallery. The Englishman En-glishman won by long wooden shots and good irons, despite poor putting at times. Hagen, the American, lost through occasional oc-casional slices and iron shots that lacked a trifle of perfection, while the Scotch contender owed his failure to bad breaks of luck and erratic putting. R. Hunter of Fort Worth turned in a total score of 31S and William Brown of j Hastings took 319. Barnes Lucky. Barnes partly owed bis victory to a , ground rule, which permitted lifting a j ball from a flower bed at the left of the eighteenth green. In playing this hole on the third round Barnes pulled bis second sec-ond shot to the dense growth of tall flowers. flow-ers. Advised that the ball was out of bounds, the Philadelphian played a second ball, which landed twelve feet from the flag. When the first ball was found 'nmong the blossoms it was decided that the ground rule should prevail, as the bed was not out of bounds. The ball was dropped back without the penalty of two strokes that would have been imposed, and he pitched close to the cup and holed a four, gaining the two strokes by which he won. The record-breaking cards of Barnes for the four rounds follow: Par out, 454, 345, 43436. Barnes out round 1, 453, 255, 424 34. Barnes out round 2, 544, 245, 534 36. Barnes out round 3, 455, 446, 444 40. Barnes out round 4, 444, -l 15, 434 36. Par in 444, 434, 44536. , Barnes in round 1, 343, 434, 453 33 67. Barnes in round 2, 444, 434, 453 35 71 ! 13S. Barnes in round 3, 343, 534, 354 3 t 74 212. Barnes In round 4, 344, 431, 355 35 71 2S3. The score by rounds of the five prize winners: Barnes. 677174 71 2S3. Hagen. 74 7 09 72 2ST. Hutchinson, 70 71 7075 2S6. French, i4 757271 292. McLeon, 73727277294. |