Canadian Open

Ever since he tied Tommy Armour for the U. S. Open Championship (which Armour won in the playoff) in 1927, U. S. golf professionals have had respect for "Light Horse" Harry Cooper of Chicago. Last year his average score for 70 rounds of competitive golf was 72.6--a record. A thin young man with a sharp, smiling face, Harry Cooper is fond of airy gestures. He made one last week at the Ottawa Hunt & Golf Club where he had just finished playing in the Canadian Open with a score of 290. "I should have made a 69 on my last round instead of a 71," he said. "Then I might have had a chance to tie. . . ." First man to post his score. Harry Cooper boarded a train for Chicago where he had an exhibition match scheduled for next day.

Even more addicted to airy gestures than Cooper is fat-jowled Walter Hagen, the defending champion, who arrived from winning the Western Open the day play started at Ottawa, and started his round on a course he had never seen before with an eagle 3. He scored a 70 and next day, in the rain, a 75. Cooper who had equalled the course record with his first-round 69, putted badly for a 75. After the second round, both Cooper and Hagen were be hind Al Watrous of Birmingham, Canadian Open Champion in 1922, who had a steady 72 and a brilliant 70.

Watrous, four strokes ahead of the field after his third round, needing only a 74 to win, started his last round with a 6. Then he had a 5. He was one over par at the 5th, 6th and 7th, two over par at the short 8th. He reached the turn in 44 and even when he came back in ten strokes less, it left him with a 78, for 293. three strokes back of Cooper. Fat-jowled Hagen glared warily at his putts. He sank one on the last hole for a birdie 4 that gave him 295 and third place, one stroke ahead of Macdonald Smith, Ed Dudley, Leo Diegel, Horton Smith and Olin Dutra.

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