The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-15
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Haqen Selected As The Rest
 Best Golfer In Country By
 Experts Who Have Watched Him

pain sta king and methodica1 player, given to much preliminary wasging of his club and the like, especially on tbe putting green. The match was a very close one, and finally hinged on a ten foot putt by the deliberate member. He sighted the line and wiggled his butter until the rest were near a nervous collapse, and finally sank the putt.
 You didn't think I was going to hole that one, did your" he inquired, turning to one of his opponents.
 Well, no, not for the first fifteen minutes I didn't was the reply.
 Friends of Emmet French, the York professional, were highly pleased with his showing at North Shore. He is a good. sound golfer and furthermore a quiet unassuming chap. He started at the Merton Cricket Club several years ago as a locker boy, and has learned the game in his own way. His record of 29i shows how well he has learned it.. His 69 in practice on Tuesday is proof of his capa bilities.
 A team match between St. Albans and wheatley Hills is scheduled for
  When the two met on June p St. Albans won, IS to 5. Only single matches will be played.
 Horace L. Hotchkiss, honorary president of the Seniors Golf AsSo- ation, will do his golfing on Yer mont courses for the rest of the sum mer. He and his family are now To-
 cated at Hyde Manor, Sudbury, Vt,
 where they will spend the sum-
 mer.
 Some thing of 8 patriotic tinge will
 feature this one day tournament of the Newspaper Golf Club at
 Belleclaire to morrow. It will be known as the BastiIe Day Tourna- ment, in honor of the French na-
 tional holiday. A good field is ex- pected at the Bayside course. No doubt the two victories over A. l.. Walker, Jr., and W. A. Barber. Jr., by w. E. Trues- dell, the Garden City links veteran | and his elderly partner, George H Crocker, at Ekwanok the past week were a source of considerable pleas | ure to the Garden City player. It vii be recalled that Walker defeated him I HI llle IDal itldiCI1 Ol tUe iHld- " lllGl tournament at Pinehurst last winter Lieut.. Oscar E. Carlson of Siwanoy | ualo has just returned from oversea. 1 service in France, watched Walter Hagen through his final round a l North Shore Friday. He has not ye l been mustered out of service. H; states that he had a chance to DlaI | a few rounds of golf at Nice, bu 1 doesn't feel good enough to get int l the Wostchester championships. i Can't beat the Fox Hills crowd fol 1 holtng out in one. Spurred on by tn l example of club member who regis tered two such performances with | in a few weeks Of each other re | gently, Arthur Da-wson pulled a on' l on the fifth hole 1aA week. Mean
 time Tom Boyd, professional al th' course. is smiling. Every time thu l boys sink a one Tom collects. ant l he's getting 'em in spite ef the pro | hibition law, too.
 l Peculiar coincidences sometime 1 bob up in a big field of golf play. A | witness three successive twos on tha ninth hole at North Shore Frida. contributed by Emnet French 1 George Mclean and Louis Teller 1 paired with George Fotheringhann l Charlie Hoffner and Walter Hagel | respectively. Hagen barely uisse' | when his ball stopped short b. | some two inches.
 1 Again on the eighteenth hola in tn morning a rather funny thing hap 1 pened. Wilfrid Reid pulled his sec l ond shot far over q row of trees an | into the fairway of the first hole ! then electrified the crowd with 1 wonderful ashie shot back over tn l trees to within fifteen feet of tn l cup. Peter O'Hara. playing right be | hind him, did identically the sam | thing Peter ran his putt down fo
 {, whereas Reid missed and tool a5.