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Show HAGEN IS LIVING A "PERFECT LIFE" Agreed That Star Golfer Has Very Few Worries. The question of soft jobs and easy lives came up at one of the Florida baseball training camps, where a number num-ber of players, baseball writers and officials were fanning -in the lobby of a hotel. A big car pulled up in front of the hotel, driven by a liveried chauffeur, and a fashion plate stepped out. "There's the fellow with the softest soft-est racket any one could want," one of the players said. "Who's that?" a newcomer asked. "That's Hagen," he answered, "Walter Hagen, the best golfer in the world, and a grand fellow with it." Hagen, according to gossip, is making mak-ing about $100,000 a year playing golf and showing others how to play the game. He has three cars the best te a Jm Ifllf 1 ; Walter Hagen. that are made a chauffeur and several sev-eral other servants, a manager, and c. magnificent home in one of the most beautiful sections of Florida. He is accepted in the best society, has a high rating as a citizen, and all of the comforts of life. He doesn't have to train seriously and he has no challengers to be bothering him and no one to pester him with questions, When are you going to meet this fellow, fel-low, or that fellow? Hagcn's success isn't the result of luck. He had natural talent, of course, but with it" he was blessed also with shrewd foresight. He was a fine semipro ball player when he was a youngster, and he had an idea that he might make good as a professional ; but he decided that there was more of a future in golf, and he gave up baseball and took up golf as a profession. "I figured that the average life of a ball player in fast company was about ten years, and- then he would have to quit or go to the minor leagues at cut rates," Hagen said. "There Is no limit to the career of a golf player. I have been in the game for a number of years and I feel sure that I have at least five years of championship golf ahead of me. Harry Vardon won a national championship when he was fifty-one years of age, and he is still a great golfer. If a player takes care of himself, him-self, there is no age limit facing him." . Hagen is still a great baseball fan and he says his Interest in the game helps his golf. |