The Washington times., 1923-04-08

, Is. n0h the battle In any game
Whoever heard OF q mans winning
sahything without fighting for 10
certainly know had to fight
sSzEh al my might to win the Ma
haEioNaf championship And had /
EYE lost heart along the way i
eale never have earned my honors.
Take that third round at aIkoI<ie
sHor fn@tance, when was hooking
by tee shots. tried everything
knew 70 correct the fault. But
lie hooking persisted and the
only thing i could do WAS to
play an of my other shots just q
little better than usual IN order
10 make up for my poor driving.
-Sevefa1 times during that third
lSund I was ready 10 givs up IN
8espafr. But / naanagcd 70 hang
IN and I am: thankful now that ]
lid.
Consider the fourth rourd slso.
Mftsr / had got off to q goof start
md was out IN thirty When
my. pitch To the tenth green went
.IEfo q tran could have cried
- was ue&r1y heart-broken to see
. perfect shot such as had just
played 50 wrong But managed
[k1 forpeG about that on the next
ole and little further along I
1kvoF.
HAGEN IS PHILOSOPHERS.
Bsth waiter Hagen and Jock
utchison have wonderful tenn
.Deranents for golf. Hagen has a
disposition which en-
At5As him TO march along serenely
zrdfess Of how things are going.
Jock Is OF the plugging sort. The
harder the going. the harder he
tries. On our recent tour he gave
one OF the most remarkable ex-
hfbitiOns Of pluck in golf I have
ever heard OF IN endeayorfng to
Championship.
Starting on the last round, Jock
was three strokes back OF the lea
der, Eddie Loos. As he started
out he said 20 one OF the tourna-
merit comrnattee. ~ be back
Or that money Ineaning first
. swing he started off with 5
fine drive and got q birdie on the
birdie on the second hole.
But At the third hole, Just as he
was warming UP to 3 record break
ing round, he pulled his pitch shot
to the green-sone les yards away.
The ball rolled down steep hank
into q heavy clurnp Of bushes.
BY the time lock had retrieved
THE shot he had used seven strokes
-four over par! That was q blow
from q most unexpected quarter. Il
would have ruined most golfers.
HUTCH SHOWS RIGHT.
But this break only seemed to
gpIr the Hutch on. 10 make mat
tiers worse he missed q short putt
HS&4f "a
bk1k did he quit7 Indeed, he didn't.
Beginning with the next. or fifth,
ho1@. Hutchinson started on q ram
pa8s that swept everything in sight
before IT.
He began attacking par with q
vengeance. They think the Hutch
o. out OF II" he said, speaking of
an imaginary opponent. I'm show
Them
Jock went tearing along until he
had finally caught up with L0os on
the sixteenth hole.
But Eddie got two on the sew
enteenth which gave him the lead
again and the championship.
Jocks 90 on the incoming nine
did not quite serve to turn the
trick. But his performance in that
nesting well shows what plugging
win do.
Thousands Of golfers beat them.
selves. So long as everything is
going smoothly they smile and
play well. But the minute q ball
hops into a trap and they take q
few extra strokes they toss in the
sponge. They brood over their
misfortune and figure how they
might have won but for their III
luck.
They never stop to think Of the
number OF long puts they got
down or the number Of shots they
missed without suffering punish,
ment for those misses.
would advise all golfers IN
medal play to stick to the card
20 wrong. Forget about the field
They viii ali have troubles OF their
own. You play that card, trying to
get your par as often az possible
Par golf viii win nine tournaments
out Of ten.
II you happen to bag a birdie
nurse It carefully as you would q
gift. And II you get a bad break
forget It and concentrate on thu
next hole.
HARMON TOSSED CHANCE.
In the match play. stick to your
own game. Never mind IL your op
poncnL - tHIty yhruS aneao OF yOt
on the drive. They don't pay off OF
drives in this game. He may mis-
his second.
Certainly he is playing at disad
vantage IL you stick your secon,
shot somewhere near the flag.
And above all never give up e hole
Play IT out, no matter where you are
You don't know what he IL going L
do.
In conclusion, say again that
you wish to become a champion Il
this game, you must develop tempere
ment as well as skill. You must lear
to accept ali breaks as part Of tn
game and to plug along no matte
how rough the going Is.
lCopyright, 1879, by the Bell SyndIeat
Inc.
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