The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-31
HAGEN AND MAIDEN
VICTORS ON LINKS
Defeat Vardon and Ray A and
3 in Golf Match at
Nassau.
by KERR N. PETRIE.

Adding still another strengthening link
to the chain Of evidence presented since
first it was asserted that the golfer who
can putt is a match for anyone, Walter
Hagen. formerly American open cham
pion. whirled himself and his partner.
Jim Maiden of Nassau into a winning
position I'm thlrty-six hole match
played yesterday over the Nassau links
against Harry Kardon and Ted Ray, the
British professional stars. Hagen and
Maiden won the thirty-six hole tilt by
a margin of up and 8 to play. coming
like n tornado In the afternoon after
standing down at the opening hole.
There was nothing about the playing
of this first hole to presage n victory
for the American pair. for vardon and
Ray moved their lead up a notch from
up, brought over from the first eighteen.
with a pair OF par As. while Maiden was
wasting q stroke on the green and Hagan
digging like prospector In bunker.
That bunker display was one of the
most remarkable ever given by the pres
cnt holder of the French open champion
ship. From the tee Walter hit n ball
that was partly top and partly heel. II
burrowed into the bank of the bunker In
such a position that in making his first
attempt at recovery Hagen swung him
self off his balance. back slipped. and
finally fell flat on his back without as
much as budging the sphere. Gettin
up, Walter again attacked the sod bank.
hitting hard and often. and finally earned
n round of applause when he had torn
the ball clear ut something like the
eighth stroke. or course Hagen picked
up and left the work to his partner. who.
as remarked, took an extra putt
Maiden won the second hole In on n
putt OF less than five feet and Hagen
squared the match at the next most UNI
expectedly, holing from the rough after
overplaying the green on his second and
flubbing his third. Hagen won the fifth
on nice long curling putt after missing
his second. a brassie shot. and two holes
further on he dropped sixty footer.
Two Up mt the Turn.
Turning for home up the American
pair rapidly added TO their lead. win
ming the tenth when Hagen laid his ball
almost dead from n bunker, and the
eleventh, when the same player holed a
thirty footer for g. VaTdon, with a T.
took the fourteenth. but 3s all around
gave the home pair the verdict by and
Mt the short fifteenth.
For spell Hagen's putting. recovery
work and his play around the green
were little short Of uncanny. On the
other hand. while they played just as
we'll as their opponents, vardon and Ray
could not hole thing. green after green
costing them three shots each.
An analysis of the green work OF
Hagen. for a part OF the match at least.
Is rather interesting, particularly where
II shows that up to the seventh hole
Walter used UP no more than seven
puts IL has TO be remembered, OF
course. that on the FIRST hole the Metro
politan champion did not use his putter
at all in consequences OF the bunker
trouble and resultant pick up On the
second. after pulled second and a
strong third. he chipped close and holed.
Tho third hole IL where he holed from
the rough. 80 once agnin the puttcr had
"A vacn ton "a
On the short fourth Maiden made his