Show HAGEN HAOEN FAVORED TO GAIN OAIN TITLE IN PRO FEATURE Match Play Tournament On Docket for 1926 Golf Candidates By Rn HAY M Special lal torre ln of Standard Standard- EXl l lUG Hit by Consolidated Press Pres Association NEW YORK yom Sept Walter 13 H 1 I 1 Ha Hagen en will have hav an ten opportunity nut next week T similar to that 1 was ws presented to Bobby Jones this thi week Whereas tho the king kingo kinro o all 1111 golfers was Ill a sling gUng to set II a new n w record of o three I victories In tho national amateur championship Hagen Hacen willi will fight for his hll third successive grasp crispon on thu th title of or professional cham cham- I cham-I champion champion pion The professional proCessIonal championship of the United States to be b contest contest- rd rd d next bleat week on the Salisbury L I LI I link Is I 1 a match play tournament ment mont and anil the outstanding professional event of ot the th year In this country A third victory In irs os as many years for or Hagen will stamp I that debonair and dapper knight of th tho niblick as the tb greatest golfer colter In this country If not Dot In the world Mall Many already maintain that Hagen is I the greatest of all links links- men amateur amateur or professional for eign or homo home bred Thor Th r is II I no disputing Hagn Hagens wonderful ret ret- record rec record ord over tho the past Palt 11 years earl But the fact remains pone Gene Gen little Italian American also Biso has won the P U A championship In succession while Lon Long Jim Barnes has hae ha been a winner of this competition twice during the pMt past seven years Hagen Haren Is the only player plyer who has won the title three times though be he has bill not yet made It three In a row l FAVORED f The above named trio Barnes and have have monopolized this tournament since fine Its It In- In In Inauguration What Is 15 more these slime same players are ar the th most moat likely contestants stants for the title till at Sal Sal- SalIsbury Salisbury Sal Salisbury next week All three thre are great match play golfers goiters arid and It will take tak magnificent golf to elim elim- elim eliminate mate Inato them Hagen undoubtedly will rule again as the tb favorite fo Salisbury ap- ap appears ap appears pears pers to suit his bis game nicely Many any of the th holes call tor a a drive and pitch shot and In the use of ot the niblick and mashie Sir Wal Wai- Waiter Wal- Wal Waltee Walter ter tee has no superior Moreover the thc greens are undulating so o that Ha Ha- Ha Hagen Ha-gon Ha gen with his putting tou touch h will hae have p distinct edge dge over his opponents In this department of the thc game rame The writer believes the P G A tournament next week cek will be the greatest of o Its kind ever over held Hagen lagen will probably encounter the keenest opposition he h has yet met metIn metin metIn In this event Last year at Olympia fields Al AI Watrous had Hagen down In the first round In desperation the Hage fage rallied brilliantly on the last nine of the he afternoon round and won out at tho the thirtieth hole Wat- Wat Watrous Watrous Wat-rous Wat rous a II greatly Improved golfer In inthe the last year must be counted on In this tournament and it Is safe eafe to say he ho will wll not make the same mistake again If It he happens to get Sir Walter alter Walt r down I After beating Mike Mik me Brady easily In the second round Hagen Haren ran Into a 0 tartar In the person of Leo Die Dle- Diegel Dl gel This youngster ran Hagen ragged around Olympia fields and I at one time In the afternoon round he had the th champion champlon five down Victory seemed eem d so easy and so certain Cain tain Diegel became careless De- De DeCore BeCore Be Before Core fore he realized what was happen happen- happenIng happening happening ing Hagen Hag had squared the match nt at the very last hole and although Diegel hung on like lik a bulldog In Inthe inthe the extra etra holes he finally yielded at the th fortieth I DIEGEL DANGEROUS n i Here too Is k a young man man who has enough Dough experience to take tal ad- ad advantage ad advantage vantage of an nn opponents opponent mistakes shoot birdies birdie faster than any goiter golfer I living If It he h Is In the mood he h will VIII be b hard to beat Johnny Farrell Bill Bobby Cruickshank Joe Joo and Tommy Armour are ire others who must be reckoned with The Tho fellow who wins at Salisbury L I next week will Indeed bo be b a champion |