Show i You'd Be Bee r e- e SURPRISED BY BILLY EVANS ap api i Js TUE HOODOO I II MA I s rc d Si P J S 1 z T Alft s I t GIVE 4 U a j h- h T CANI MISS o Mike Blike Brady Drady of the tho Winged Foot Golf club at Mamaroneck N Y V Is known known as the tho hoodoo hO man juan of I golf No pro has nearly won so many golf rolt titles title as s Brady Braly only to b bp be denied dented the tho honor at the last minute Not until 1922 1223 after trying for tor 25 years did Brady Erady succeed In winning a major championship lIe annexed the tha Western Vestern open that year Since Sine then ho he has won the Metropolitan open but those t two o aro are his only out out- outstanding out standing wins Despite lila his bad b ld luck Brady Drady t Is conceded to be one ono ot of the greate greatest t golfer In tho the game a 11 with every shot in In- In his kit the master masler mastero 0 of every club Fifteen years Lack back things thins be- be began bc gan to break badly for Drad Brady season seMon he h ma his hill first real bid for big ble honors In the na- na national national na national open staged at Wheaton lie Ie finished d In a triple tl tI tie with J J 3 McDermott and MacDonald Smith In the th playoff lie h le finIshed fin fin- finI I second to McDermott by two strokes Two years ears later 1913 in the thol western open it was again acain mott McDer- McDer McDermott McDermott mott Who ho frustrated Bradys Brady's championship ambitions Mike was a good second In 1919 l I watched Walter IIa- IIa hagerm Ha-cen Ha germ en an and Brady Drady after finishing r In ina Ina II a tie for the tho national open title at Braeburn play 18 IS holes boles to de- de deI d erdo ePic the tIme championship Brady Drady I lost at least Il four strokes by tough lough breaks while Dame Fortune con I smiled on Waller Walter the tho Great Brady shot shota a 7 TL 71 Hagen Harn a a 77 Mike had lost another titular bat bat- battle battle bat battle tle In 1921 Brady finished In the Canadian open after looking like a certain Inner in-Inner in the tho first three mounds The following year yeal came Juts his first major triumph In the western No professional golfer In the world has threat threatened ned so 80 often and succeeded so 80 seldom as Mike Mik Brady lIe He H sure sura is the tho hoodoo man manot manof mano ot of golf coif the original hard luck guy |