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APRIL 10,1926
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North and South Open Championship
By E. Ellsworth Giles
B" 1 OBBY CRUICKSHANK, the diminutive, Scottish-born
pro, won the North and South open championship by
the slender margin of a putt, at 293, each round played
over the No. 2 course.
To take the title and the emoluments which go with it,
the former Scotch amateur had to come home in the final
round with a dazzling 34 which was proof positive that Bobby
can “take it” under lire.
Right at his heels came last year’s winner, Macdonald
Smjith, Arthur Yates, the amateur, and winner of last year’s
North and South for amateurs, and Tom Harmon, the Hud
son River entry, all tied at 294.
iCruickshank got away to a winning start when he turned
in a corking fine score of 71 for the opening 18 holes. It
was a day made to order for the little Scotchman, for the
wind howled across the moor, giving a distinct advantage
to the man who can play the wind, and Cruickshank is a
master shot maker when old Boreas goes on a rampage.
CRUIOKSHANK ’S SUSTAINED BRILLIANCE
The new champion followed this brilliant get-away round
with consistent rounds of 74 each, and no one could catch him.
Mac Smith by-his own brilliant play on the first nine holes
of the last round had the championship title almost within
his grasp, but could not close on it. He went out in a most
brilliant 33, aided and abetted by a hole in 1, made on the
tricky seventh hole, which is a matter of 166 yards in length.
Smith failed to show proper appreciation of this smile of
the “fickle dame,” and proceeded to take four 5 s on the in
coming holes shutting him out of lirst money, and prevent
ing him from taking this much coveted title twice in succes
sion.
Perhaps the real feature of the 72 holes medal test was the
consistently brilliant play of Arthur Yates; the Rochester
amateur, in a field which included the recognized world’s
champion, Walter Hagen, British open champion, Jim
Barnes, British professional champion, Arthur Compston of
Pngland, Jock Hutchison, former British champion, Wil
liam Mehlhorn, Johnny Farrell and a host of other top lin
ers, Yates actually had a putt on the home green to tie
Cmickshank at 293, and although he missed his long chance
he finished in a tie for second place.
FREDDIE McLEOD SHINES
Another high spot in the two days struggle for suprem
acy was the scintillating finish of little Freddie McLeo o
the Columbia Club, Washington, D. C. Little Freddie w o
ean scarcely raise the beam above the 120-pound note an
who tied for the national open championship at Midlothian
back in 1908, had a brace of 71’s on the final day which no
one in the tournament, was able to equal. McLeod gave
away many pounds and many" years and then showed the
oncoming generation how the old Scottish game is and was
played.
Many of the throng in the gallery came early and stayed
late hoping against hope that they might see Walter Hagen,
the lion-hearted, stage one of his made-to-order Garrison
finishes, but the professional match play champion just
did not have the shots in his old caddie bag, and so had to
drop back into the dim shadow of obscurity tor the time
being.
The story of how the title was won is told in the follow
ing figures:
Bobby Cruickshank, New York.
First Day—Afternoon Round
Out 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 6 4—37
In 4 5 344453 5—37—74
Morning Round
Out 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 4 3—34
In 54445353 4—37—71—145
Second Day
Cruickshank—
Out 4 4 5 4 5 4 3 5 4—38
In 4 4 4 4 5 3 5 3 4—36—74
Out 5 6 4 3 4 5 3 5 5—40
In 3 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 4—34—74—148—293
Arthur Yates, Rochester
First Day 73—74—147
Second Day
Out 5 4 5 3 4 4 4 5 4—38
In 4 3 4 5 3 2 4 4 4—33—73
Out 4 5 4 2 5 5 3 4 4—36
In 4 6444 453 4—38—74—147—294
Macdonald Smith, Lakeville, L. I.
First Day 78—72—150
Second Day
Out 4 4 4 4 4 5 6 4 3—38
In 4 5 4 4 3 3 5 3 4—35—73
Out 4 4 4 4 4 4 1 4 4—33
In 5 5 3 5 4 3 5 4 4—38—71—144—294
Tom Harmon, Jr., Hudson River
First Day 75—73—148
(Continued on page 9)