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Show M GOLF FINAL TO HAVE BIG FIELD Barnes Still Holds Lead ; McNamara and Hag"en Play Strong Game. CHICAGO. Sept. 14. Tom McNamara ot New York, champion In 1914, and Walter Hagen of Rochester, N. Y., present title holder, today shared the honor of low score for the second eighteen holes ot ihe western open golf championhsip, each taking 70 strokes, two under par. This score was not good enough., to take the lead from James M. Barnes of Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, who today added 71 sirokes to his record, 67, of yesterday, and lopped the field with 138 at the half-way mark, as compared with 141 for Hagen and 149 for McNamara. Jock Hutchinson, with 71 strokes today, to-day, held second place with a total ot 141 among the sixty-nine who qualified for the tlnal thirty-six holes tomorrow-Hagen tomorrow-Hagen 's score jumped him into third place, while Fred McLeod of Washington, with 72 todav, gained fourth place, with 145. Frank Adams of Beverley club, Chicago; Chi-cago; M. J. Brady of Boston and James Donaldson of Glanview were tied for fifth place, with 146 each. Only one stroke behind them were Jack Burgess of Washington Wash-ington and Peter O'Hara of Pittsburg. One stroke further removed from the title were R. H. Craigs of Louisville, Gil Nich- j oils of New York, James Simpson of Mil- : waukee and George Simpson of Chicago. Big Field in Final-Harry Final-Harry Turpie, the veteran of Rochester, Minn, with a par 72 today, was tied at 149 with W. C- Sherwood of Memphis, Tom McNamara and Emmett French of York, Pa. Six men were tied at 161 for last place among the sixty-four assigned to survive, and all of them will- be allowed to play the final rounds. Hagen and Donaldson, playing together, drew the gallery until they finished and gave an exhibition that lacked only a couple of shots of being perfect. Hagen turned the half-way mark in 34, having 7 pars and 2 birdies. He continued at th same rapid pace until the twelfth hole, 261 yards. There he sliced to the rough, played out too strongly and overran the green into a trap, whence he barely recovered re-covered on his fourth shot and took six strokes. Then he resumed his perfect play and ended with 70. McNamara's play 1 was the same as Hagen's on the first six holes, but he took one more on each of 1 the next three, for a 37. He came in better bet-ter than the champion, however, scoring 6 pars and 3 birdies for a 33. Their cards: , Par Out 455 345 43436 Hagen Out 444 345 42434 McNamara Out 444 34F5 535 37 Par In 444 434 44536 Hagen In 443 634 4443670 McNamara In 444 424 344 33 70 Four Reversals. The gallery was attracted later by the playing of Leo Dlegel of Detroit, an eighteen-year-old professional, who started as a caddie at the Blue Mound club, Milwaukee. Mil-waukee. His 74 of yesterday was far from duplicated today, the youth having lost for the nonce his cunning on the tee? and taking SO. Spectacular examples of form reversal were exhibited by M. L. Wells of Chicago, who frittered away 47 strokes on the firsl nine and then came home in 35, including one 6, and S. Robson of Olean, N. Y., who took S3 yesterday, 40 this morning, and then shot 34 this afternoon. The 34 included in-cluded a 2 on the 350-yard fifteenth, wherH Robson dubbed his drive and whaled into a mashle shot of 200 yards that found th'! four-inch cup. |