The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-30
Sarazen Retains His Professional
 .Crown Saturday

PELHAM MANOR, N. Y, Sept. 29. An amazing recovery shot from a cray-fish marsh beside the thirty eight hole at the Pelham Country club brought victory today for Gene Sarazen, the young Italian-American instructor of Briar Cliff Manor, and defeat for Walter Hagen, the vet eran, in the Professional Golfers as- sociations most thrilling title match And upon Sarazen's head still rests the crown he won last year at Oak mont, Pa.
 Victory for Sarazen in this, the first 3S-hole match in the history of professional championship tourna- ments. came after courageous up- hill fight by Hagen, who had squared the match at the thirty-fifth ty-eighth. They started on extra holes after Hagen had made an ex- cellent recovery from a trap on the thirty sixth for 8 half.
 Both sank putts of more than five feet on the thirty-seyenth for birdie fours. Came then the tricky thirty eighth. 310-yard hole with sharp curve to the green around clump of trees. Hagen essayed daring shot over the trees to the green. His ball stopped on, the edge of a sand trap, beside the green. Undis- mayed by this shot, Sarazen played for the hole. His ball fell short in marshy ground sprinkled with the mud mounds of cray fish. He was away. Selecting a mashie niblick he put the ball within two feet of the cup This excellent shot drew the plaudits of the9 great gallery, and when there was quiet. Hagen stepped to his ball. Perhaps Sara zen's shot unnerved him, for when Ya I ar.d h hfy hcn failed to carry out of the sand. His third got toward the cup and seemed as if it might go in. then rolled to one side. Sarazen did not hesitate with his putt. It tickled in.
 They had finished the morning round all even after being up and down one hole and even at several stages Sarazen won the very first hole with a birdie. Hagen squared the match on the second Hagen became one up at the sixth and Sarazen squared it again at the eleventh. Hagen again became one up at the thirteenth when Sarazen drove into the woods. Hagen drove two iron shots into tree on the fourteenth and they were square again. Hagen won the fifteenth when, Sarazen had poor luck with his tee shot. A birdie on the eighteenth by Sarazen left them all square. Sarazen became one up at the twenty-first with a birdie 1. Hagen barely missing holing his pitch shot. Sarazen became 2 up at the twenty third with another birdie. the result of a 25 foot putt.
 Sarazen's lead was increased 10 three holes on the twenty-fifth by laying Hagen a stymie. Hagen sank an eight footer on the twenty-ninth for a birdie three and was two down. Sarazens tee shot from the Rocky Mount on the thirty-fourth landed in rough grass and Hagen won the hole with a par 3 to be- come one down. The play on the thirty-fifth was breath taking Sara zens second shot was sliced into the rough. Hagen's second was hooked out of bounds. Hagen's third was on the green. but Sarazen's found sand pocket. Hagen was down with two puts for a five and Sarazen. getting on with his fourth. took two for a six, and the match was squared. It was at this same hole that Jim Barnes, in his admirable fight against Sarazen on Thursday, squared the match with an eagle three after hav- Ing been four down at the twenty seventh.
 The afternoon cards follow: Hagen, out ...545 344 544-3S