Daily Kennebec journal., 1922-08-23

Bar Harbor, August 2--Ine Dig
gest golf attraction ever known in
Maine will be the feature Of the ke-
DO Valley Club at Bar Harbor on
Wednesday. August 10Th, when Wal
ter Hagen and 10 kirk"ood are to
play hole match with Freddie
-'1Leod and Gil Nichols.
The appearance of Hagan alone
is a golf attraction of great import
ance; but a match with the British
open champion paired with the Aus
traiian wizard against former open
champion aad a man of the calibre
Of Nichols places this match in a
position entirely its own in the golf
annals If tie Pine Tree state.
In addition 10 the match Kirkwood
Will put on lis unparalleled exhibi-
tion OF trick ch0t playing. This eX
hibition was put ON ut the l<cbo Val
10y links last season and drew the
largest gallery that ever witnessed
a match or c%hibitiOn at the Bar
Harbor links
This years big event is expected
TO attract hundreds of golfers from
all over the sta'e. The morning
round will STAT at go and the after
noon round at 80. \ nominal ad
mission charge will be made to cover
both the match and the exhibition.
Hagen and kirkwood are stopping
in Bar Harbor on their world tour
of the leading golf clubs. Mcleod
is spending the season here and by
way of amusement clipped thr
strokes from the course record the
other day, establishing IS as goal
for the coming competition. Nichols
is coming up from Providence
the last of the month and 1t is sad
he is in top form this season.
These men need no Introduction
to the golf enthusiast but brief ac-
counts Of their accomplishments
would read something as follows:
Haecn's Record
Walter Hagen, British Open Cham
rion. has been called the worlds
greatest golfer and his record seems
to bear out this assertion. He has
won every open title in this country
worth winning. He has annexed the
National Open twice, cqualling the
record of John J. MCDermOtt and
Alex Smith. who are the only other
living golfers to accomplish this feat.
Hagen has played in champion
ships only eight years, including two
years with no tournaments during
the war vet his record is little short
of marvellous for that short time. He
began in 1913 and finished fourth in
tie open that yoar-the year that
Cu,met beat Nardon and Ray. lie
won the National Open the following
year at Chicago.
He won the National open again
in 1919 at Braehurn He won the
Western Open last summer and be-
fore in 1916 He won tho Metropoli-
tan Championship in 1916, 1919 and
1920. He won the Eastern Open
Championship in 1916, the Fan
American Open Championship in
1919. the French Open in 1920. the
North and South in 1918. the West
Coast of Florida title III 1920 and
1922. the New York state title in
1920, the Michigan state title in 1871.
He won the Professional Golfers
championship last fall at lnwood.
defeating Jim Barno, in the final.
kirkwood's Record
kirkwood has won the open and
professional championships of Aus
tralia: the open and professional
championship of New Zealand; fin
ished sixth in the British Open and
was finalist at Glenagles. In three
tournaments PLAYED in England and
Scotland he made a grand average of
74O7. a performance that was not
beaten in Great Britain last year.
kirkwood has toen called the
"MagiCan of the Links" His roper
toire of trick shots is unCanny. The
duffcr who slices and tops. the star
golfer who never knows how TO ne