New-York tribune., 1919-06-13
HOtU the Cards Read
In Title Golf Play
Hagen's card:
Out :. s. a 4 6 So 4 4 4-38
Brady's card:
464 S 5 4 4 4 6-41
Hagen's card:
In 5 4 4 4 5 q 4 5 4-39-77
Brady's card:
6 3 3 4 4 4 5 4 4-37-7S

another marker, but the ball hung on
the lip.
At the long fourteenth both were on
in 3, twenty-five feet away. Hagen
took his par 5 and then Brady rallied
the big crowd again by dropping an
other twenty-five footer for another
shot under par.
At the fifteenth Mike hooked to the
rough, overplayed the green. came back
IN three, ten feet from the cup, and
sank his putt for a par a. He lost a
stroke to Hagen at the sixth by push
ing his second to trap, but his bid
for hung on the lip of the cup
again. Hagen was now two strokes up
with only two holes to play
At the 225-yard seventeenth Hagen
sliced to the woods and Brady hooked
to the rough. Mike pitched clear over
the green but Clipped back to within
five feet of the cup. Hagen, in the
meanwhile, found his ball buried in the
muck and his fine shot outcurled across
the green into trap. He was out in
3, taking 5, while Brady sank
his fivefooter for 4. This left Hagen
one stroke to the good when he faced
the final hole.
Great Finish by Hagen
After Mikes tee shot split the centre
of the course Hagen's topped drive
hoped the brook and left him a full
wallop for the green, with the result
noted above.
The feature of the round was Brady's
with SIX, he played the last eight holes
at even as. He had one putt each on
the eleventh, twelfth, fourteenth, fif-
teenth, seventeenth and eighteenth. In
othr words, on the last eight holes Mike
used but eight puts over green's as fast
and as battling as rolling billiard table
From poor and ragged putting for the
first ten holes Brady suddenly turned
himself into a Travis or a Travers at
his best
Considerable commotion arose after
mored that Hagen had been penalized
two strokes for lifting a piece of paper
through the fairway further than two
club lengths from his ball. There was
a long argument over this penalty after
the thirteenth hole had been played,
the claim being made that Brady had
also penalized himself in the same way.
After lengthy confab the two penal
ties were waived and the match was
resumed.
Hagen had all the better of the battle
for the first ten holes, getting a big
Jump on his opponent by bolder.
ct1 fol Ii p,,+ L,
less against the putting streak he en-
countered at the last eight holes and
only fine rally after he had topped
his tee shot pulled him through.
Saved Stroke on Sixteenth
AS it was, at the sixteenth his ap.
proach putt trickled eight feet from
the cup, and he had to hole this slippery
affair to pick. up the stroke he needed
to win. Both men were slashing into
their drives, but with keen wind pre-.
vailing both found frequent trouble.
This makes the second time Brady
has tried and lost in the play-off for
the open championship. AS great q
golfer as he is, it was his safety first
play after he had his five-s stroke lead
That cost him the decision through the
last eighteen holes of Wednesday after
noon.
Hagen first lcaped to fame by win
ming the open at Midlothian in 1914,
when he beat out Chick Evans by a
single stroke. He is bold, aggressive
type of player with a world of conf
dehce. He goes for everything in sight.
lie is also long driver and one of the
longest iron players in the world. Ar
rayed with thick, powerful wrists and
torearms, he can tear into ball with
terrific force, getting fine distance from
a heavy lie where slighter man would
be penalized a stroke.