Show Tales of aW Tee TeeBy Uy Oy XU GB ItICE I One of the thc main queries in golf just this moment happens to hc be this Can make snake It again 7 It so happened that flagon won the P G A crown the thc professional golf championship at match play In 1924 Ho lie repeated In 1925 This means that he lIe has lIas ha won 10 con consecutive at 36 holes against tho greatest professional 1 golfers In the game came If It he h can only finish another mother unbeaten wee weer c ho he will set et a new record ot of three years in order something no golf golf- golfer golfer colt colter er ever has reached In P 1 G A 1 ranks Hagen set a a worlds world's record If our statistics lIes are unblemished some weeks week ago aeo by breaking twice t Ice without an Intermission II 80 at Wolf Volt Hollow v in the tho eastern championship and he broke SO at Indianapolis In the tho open Two hundred and eighty means 72 holes of oft golf golt at an average ot of eight under even fours four This usually means eight under par So one ono can understand juat what It means to break 8 0 In suc- suc successive successive suc tournaments It means that for IH holes of at o medal play Hagen was wa 19 13 under even fOil fours 15 This sounds Hounds like the chatter that dreams are arc made frO Ill It doesn't do seem eem humanly possible nur l there Jie It Is though the th duffer may use 1180 up and announce that ItI it I nl never nr er could be b truo Hagen flagon Is extremely keen to win this P G A crown for th thy the thud time lime In a row Since wt nil i a year ago in Chicago he lie had b beaten both Bobby Jones and Abe Abc Alit 1 In hole 72 n matches alches starting with wHit Jones on Bobbys Bobby's Florida Florid course cour courand and meeting Mitchell l on British turf This with his P G A re or i has stamped him us its the match play golfer In the game same But on this next occasion he will wil find an aroused delegation waiting to exchange fire tire In the list there are eLo Diegel who carried him to the fortieth hole at Chicago go Gene who has beaten him himIn himIn himIn In three out of four matches Johnny Farrell Bill Jim Barnes Darnes Harry Cooper and anti a long Ion line ot of others other who are alt au set tb shoot their heads o off oct against the title holder unbeaten since sine 1923 1123 Diegel gave cave Hagen his toughest battle battlo a u year ago aeo at Olympic fields At one stage state Diegel was I 5 up and Hagen was in discouraged a 1 attitude Then rhen a 1 a stymie gaVe save him hini another chance Diegel was sonic some think think like 3 up and 4 to play at atthe atthe atthe the finish Tho The match seemed toLe to tola la Le over when Hagen holed a II 40 toot 40 putt to o remain in the scramble The match seemed s to be bo over again when Hagen laid Diegel Diced a II dead deDd stymie on a three-foot three putt lIe kept slashing away until he finally squared the th match on the green and then went on to win at th 4 Oth hole holc Diegel Farroll Farrell and are aro aronow arenow now all playing haying great golf coif and they aU all have havo focused their attention on ona ona ona a Hagen Hasen duel They all are young oung and nd can stan stand 1 tho the Ions long hole 36 36 dally daily grind which begins ou on Mon Ion Monday Monday day with a qualifying test and then swings I In into 10 match play on Tuesday over a course that will be b a real test There are ale others who will havo their chances but here are arc who will be bc dangerous nt t any anytime anytime anytime time not to overlook Willie Kline another young youn star It H is Hagens Hagen's remarkable ile le putting that does most of the e There Is nothing more killing than to bo be closer to the cup on a a 1 shot hot and yet ct always ays trying for tor the halt half in In place of tho the win vs ht On Oa sov- sov several sev several eral occasions Diegel put his hi his second shot four tour or five feet from the cup with 10 or 12 feet awa away only to have a hard putt left for fora fora a 0 half halt where a win had seemed Imminent the moment before No golfer goIter Is going to beat Hagen who Isn't putting well well And any rival who happens to be putting ex cs well can worry Hagen more than any ono one else els He doesn't mind being beins But Dut to bo be outputted Is something else Ilse ls Hafen-ls Is also a master Of the shorter pitch from 80 10 to yards ards There There is no one In the game who can consistently get this type tIO of at approach in putting range and then drop the tile putt isn't as dangerous on the longer holes between nO and lie Ile isn't as s consistent with his 1 brassie as some of ot tho the others es- es especially es especially if It he has to pick the ball up from a close clos lie Ibis His match play ranking lies largely In his ability to keep relaxed even when wilen 2 or 3 down A tight light situation never lIever Increases the tho pace of his swing or starts him worrying lIe merely keeps on playing golf coif de- de depending depending de pending in a pinch on his better short game came alo around d the green to finally pull him through In an ago ot of lonG Ions and mighty hitting Hagen has shown the th power of the an value of ot the short game He Ito will rely upon this put put- putting put ting Ung tough touch through the week t at Salisbury where 32 33 medal survivors survivors on Monday night Will bl be drawn for the day all-day and week all all war ahead ahad There are ro man many fine golfers goiters In this field and It if Hagen can bane his way through once more he will be too tar Jar out In front to be bo seen In the mists It wilt will be bo the climax of a match play record that no one else els has ever approached |