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Show Temperament and Golf Shown by Walter Hagen Walter Hagen will be remembered long as one of the finest fighters the game of golf has produced. Of all the professionals he Is the hardest man to bent, either In match or mednl play, says the New York Herald-Tribune. Other golfers have his stroke-making stroke-making capabilities, but they lack his fighting spirit, his supreme confidents, his refusal to yield until the mathematics mathe-matics of the game have defeated him. Hagen is much like Tilden In that he Is best when the odds against him are greatest. At the Olympia Fields Country club Hagen won a match at the fortieth green after appearing hopelessly beaten. Hagen was the only person on the course who had not abandoned hope. Dormie two after thirty-four holes, Hagen was as confident as if the battle bad just started. At Hoy-lake Hoy-lake two years ago, he came from behind be-hind to snatch the British championship, champion-ship, which seemed far beyond grasp. The sporting experts and the psychologists psychol-ogists can find plenty to interest them in the temperaments of Hagen and Tilden. |