New-York tribune., 1919-06-13

the crown which "Chick" Evans su
since 1916.
Hagen beat Mike Brady in the play
off Of their tie by one stroke in one
Of the most sensational finishes ever
arranged by destiny. For ten holes
Brady frittered away stroke after
stroke by overplaying the careful
game. Four strokes behind as the
tenth was finished, Mike turned and
made one of the boldest and courage
Gus bids to regain the crest that any
championship has ever seen.
Apparently beaten to a standstill,
Brady turned and came back with a
wild rush and by sinking three long
puts on the next five holes cut
Hagen's margin to single stroke. Two
of these puts dropped from twenty
five feet away and the other was a
nervy twentyfooter.
Fortune Favors Winner
1t was at the eighteenth hole that
the ruling destinies of chance decided
the issue. One stroke behind here,
Mike raped out whale of wallop
far up the rolling fairway, leaving him
an iron to the green. Hagen, who had
slipped on the hole before, pressed
his tee shot, with the result that
badly topped ball left the tee, headed
directly for a deep brook 100 yards
away.
This brook is four feet deep and a
good six feet wide. But just as. it
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tossed away Hagen's chance to win
the ball, bounding along, hoped the
brook with final whirl and ran out
into the fairway. Five times out Of
eight the same shot would have caught
the brook, leaving Hagen battle for
a 6 in place of shot for A. As
it was, he whaled long brasse to
within ten yards of the green and
Clipped up three feet away for his a.
Even here Brady, ten feet off the
green, made final bid to win. His
chip shot came spinning up within a
few inches of the cup for 3, but
when Hagen dropped his threc-footer
the battle was over and for the second
time in his career the mighty hitter
from Oakland Hills was king of Amer
lean golf.
This closing melee between Hagen
and Brady will never be forgotten by
any of the five thousand who swarmed
out after the match. Among the
throng Kid Gleason headed a delega-
tion of White Sox players, and the
Kid became as much wrought up over
Brady's billiant putting through the
finish as if the Sox were battling for a
championship.
Brady Nervous at Start
At the start it was the old story
with Mike. He was plainly nervous and
overanXious. But after he had dropped
behind he gave one of the finest ex-
hibitions of courageous play ever seen.
He left himself too much to do after
the first ten holes, with fate pulling
the other way. Four strokes through
eight holes were too great a handicap
to be overcome without the aid of the
gods, and this time they were pointing
the other way.
The battle opened with Hagen slic-
ing to the rough under a cluster of
trees and Brady straight down the
course. Brady's hole by a stroke, a par
to S, Hagen missing a five footer
after chipping up.
The second hole was a combination
of raw fate and bad golf by Brady.
Both men hooked, but Brady caught a
slope away to the woods and barely
got on his second. With an easy pitch
to the green he proved that all men
were created equal in their ability to
Up came his clammy dome and he
barely got ten yards, the mistake
costing him to Hagen's a.
Two par as resulted at the third and
another thriller came at the fourth
Hagen sliced to the rough and then
pushed his second to the rough at the
right of the green. Brady, after a fine
tee shot, dropped high iron to the
short edge of the green, but the green
was baked to an asphalt finish with
keen wind behind. Against this COM
bination the ball failed to bite, finally
tricklng clean across into trap be-
yond.
Takes Lead on Sixth Hole
Mike played about six feet from the
cup, while Hagen, from the rough,
Clipped across the green into the same
trap on his third. He was back across
the green on his fourth, but this time
chipped to within six inches of the
hole for 6, Brady missing his putt
for a. They were all even here and
still all even after halving the long
fifth in par SIS.
The short sixth, down hill pitch to
water-trapped green, was Bradys
grave. His tee shot dropped with
fine back spin to within twelve feet of
the cup. Hagen, playing boldly and
taking a rare chance, pitched between
the brook and the pin, stopping five
feet from the cup. He then ran his
approach putt down for and led by
two strokes.
Walter held this lead through the
eighth and when Brady became bun
kcred from the tee at the tenth Hagen
was three large and bulging strokes
ahead. Both were several yeards short
Of the long tenth in .. Both. were on
in 3 about fifteen feet away. Mike
putted short by four feet and then
missed his fifth, leaving Hagen another
gift and four stroke lead.
1t seemed all over now, but golf is
an uncanny game. You never know
where yoNarc until it's all over.
Brady's Uphill Fight
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