The New York herald., 1922-08-23

putt on the frst hole. Hagen can't be
| beaten that way. But Abe sank O fif-
| teen footer on the next, and then
squared the match when Hagen sliced
to bunker from the tee.
| On the fourth Hagen leaned little
bit too hard on q brassie shot and topped
TO the bottom Of the creek. Mitchell
was in the rough. but he had no trouble
winning tho hole. And for the first time
the English. star had taken the load.
! A half at the fifth seemed 20 SEQ
Hagen settled down again. but on the
sixth. 462 yards, Hagen went Ave feet
over on his putt and missed coming
back.
That loft the American with two holes
to mako up. AS luck would have It
Mitchell on the next sank his chip from
distance Of about forty yards and Mt
the eighth the score was made 4 UP In
favor OF Abe.
Hagen Misses Short Putt.
Had Mitchell won It would have been
told how this eighth was tho keystone
and crucial point OF the match A most
remarkable hole 1t was---for Hagen. It
Is the kind Of hole that Hagen is never
known to play. This Is how 1t hap
pened yesterday. Mitchell on his APP
proach dropped his ball short of the
green between the bunkers. Hagen was
on. eighteen feet over the Din. Mitchell
chipped ten or a dozen feet short and
then holed the putt, while Hagen, Slip
ping not moro than two feet past. most
unaccountably missed.
Thus on the second ana third shots
Mitchell lost tho hole and Hagen won
1t. On the fourth Mitchell won Il ana
Hagen lost. 1t locked as II Mitchell
would carry off the ninth as we'll He
played a wonderful shot from a bunker.
but Hagen, who was going rockiIv.
hooked his third to tho side Of the green
and then finished superbly for half.
Hagen's face was q study as he sur
veyed the battered remains OF that first
nine holes. There was smile on that
pronzed countenance but It was not the
smile OF man humble, servilc. or
broken spirited. Hagen's Jaw snapped
like bear trap. And then came. the
real and actual cruciaA> point Of that
match. On the tenth and eleventh
| Mitchell allowed to win back two holes
by missing pair OF these putter's length
anairs That was where Abe ''blew the
works." II he wants to know It, TN
fortunately Abe is only too conversant
with the true facts OF the case.
Twelfth Is Halved.
At the twelfth there was half That
| looked as II the trouble had blown over
but on the thirteenth, 422 yards, Hagen
was on In q drive and iron while
Mitchell. with a brassie to make up for
q sliced drive, was in the rough off the
| plateau green. Hagen won this and
squared at the next, that 523 yard af-
fair. where he was on In two and on
the lip with his run up. His putt stym-
led Mitchell who but for this would have
had twelve foot chance for half.
Then at the short fifteenth Hagen
holed thirty footer for 2, Mitchell
laying a forty footer dead. The six
teenth was halved in then at tho
| seventeenth Hagen holed his 4 while
Mitchell missed.
Putting won and lost this match II
ever 1t figured in any rough and tumble
OF the links. On the sixteenth and sew
enteenth Hagen holed his six or seven
footers. the first for half. the other
for win. while Mitchell missed puts OF
about tho same length. At the sixteenth
Abe could have squared the match and
he could have kept It All even at the
seventeenth had his putter been q work.
Ing instrument.
Also there were those two at the
tenth and the eleventh and the short
ones at the first in the afternoon and NJ
the eighth In the morning. Mitchell with
that putting twitch is like a rheumatic
master at the easel. a Kubelik with a
broken g string Hagen. despite lis
rather remarkable lapses. is still a
wizard from tee to the bottom of the cup.
me difference between the two Is this .
While one rarvels at the missing of n
clubs length putt by Hagen one looks
lor MNcheii to miss. One points the
exception. the other the rule. The cards !: