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Show I GOLF TITLIST I IS NATIVE SON I Walt Hagen Is First Born I American to Capture I British Honors CHICAGO. Juno 24. (By the Asso-I Asso-I ciated Press. Walter ilagen, the H first native American to win the Brit-B Brit-B ish open golf championship, perfectly perfect-ly lng that feat Friday with a score of 300 on the difficult Royal St. George ot Sandwich, England, first sprang Into fame as a golfer in Chicago in 1914, by winning the national open title over the Midlothian links with a score of 290, a record for the event I at that time. Ilagen was then an obscure profes- sional, in Rochester, N. T but he soon made the largo field of expert golfers at Midlothian take notice of H him when he completed the first round in a remarkable score of 6 8 I strokes. This was only one stroke bet-I bet-I ter than the tally made by Francis I Oulmet, the young Boston amateur the I year before. WINS OVER EVANS I Hagen did not repeat this perform -I ance, taking 74, 75 and 73 for the oth- er three rounds of the competition, I but he won when Chick Evans of Chi- cago failed to hole a 40-foot putt by W .in inch for a tie on the 72nd green, L totaling 211, largely because of a sprained ankle that affected his earlier I i ound?. I George Sargent and Fred MeLeod tied for third with 2S7 while Oulmet I and M. J. Brady came next with 298. I Hagen is known among golfers as L the Beau Brummel of the links, al- ways appearing both on and off the I golf course in faultless sartorial splen- dor. The other two Americans contending I for the British title who barel failed I b' a stroke or two of tlelng Hagen. are both Britons. Jamen Barnes. Am- erica n open champion, Who was only I une stroke behind Hagen, is a Cornish- man, but has been in America for I many years, serving as professional at 8 Philadelphia, Seattle, St. Louis. New fl York and other places. Although tall' I and lanky. Barnes drles as long a I ball a Ilagen. He is widely lCQOWnl H among golfers for ills habit of chewing on a. blade of grass while playing. IMPORTED BY CARNEGIE I Hutchison, who finished with third I best score of 302. is a Scot, who learn- ed the game at St. Andrews. He v. is I brought to America by a brother of Andrew Carnegie. After serving several sev-eral years as a professional in Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, he becam attachd to th Gin burg, he became attached to the Glen View Golf Club of Chicago. He has never won the American title, although al-though he was runner-up with 2 88 to Chick Evans' record score of 2S6 it Iflneapblis in 1 9 1 6 and was s-.ni with several others to Ted Ray at Toledo To-ledo In 1920 . He did win the western open from about the same field at Olympla Fields club Chicago, in 1920 with 296 strokes, Barnes taking 2!7. Barnes has won the western open title three times. |