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Show HEEI IS OPEN " iLFjiimi Detroiter BeatsMike Brady of Boston in Sensational Finish. EN1EWTON, Mass., June 12. Walter C. Uagen of the Oakland Country club, Detroit, De-troit, won the open golf championship of the United States at Braeburn today, defeating de-feating Michael J. Brady of Oakley by a single stroke In an eighteen-hole play for the title. It was the second time Hagen has won the championship, as he led the field in the same event in Chicago in 1914. Hagen shot the IS holes today in 77. The detat was a bitter disappointment to Brady, as he lost the title in l'.Hl at When. ton, 111., in a three-cornered playoff play-off to Jack McDermott and' finished third to McDermott at Buffalo in The two players finished all even .for the regulation 72 holes yesterday. Mike started badly in the playoff. He was 41 at the turn to Hagen' a 3S. At the tenth he dropped another stroke by taking a six. Brady Puts Up Fight. Then he began to put up a real fight. After half catching his tee shot dt the 11th, he pulled out a brassie and the ball came down seven feet to the right of the pin. Hagen pitched to the green and was down in four. Brady sank his putt, cutting cut-ting Hagen's lead to three strokes. At the twelfth, Brady sank another long putt for a three. This cut Hagen's lead to two strokes. The short thirteenth was shot in uninteresting fours. The fourteenth four-teenth Is 5G0 yards. Both slammed out long drives. The seconds were well up to the slope guarding the green and the approaches ap-proaches on. Hagen rolled his putt up for a sure five. (Brady was 30 feet from the cup. He looked the green over carefully and hit the ball with confidence. It held the line all the way and dropped in the hole. Brady's supporters' joy was short lived, for Mike put his second into a trap going to the sixteenth and was down in five to Hagen's well -placed four. Mike got the shot back at the seventeenth, four to. five. Thrilling Finish. The players walked to the home tee with Hagen leading by a stroke. The fairway to the green was crowded on both sides and the green was surrounded I by spectators. It was some minutes before be-fore officials had the way clear so the men could shoot. Brady was well down I the middle. Hagen half topped his shot and the ball just rolled out of the rough, which runs for 125 yards in front of the tee. Hagen recovered with a clean shot to just short of the green. Mike failed to get one In two, but ran his third up dead. Hagen's chip left him a three-foot putt to halve Brady and win the championship. cham-pionship. He looked the ground over from both sides and rapped the ball confidently. It went down. |