Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-26

Putting aside his links implements
for the tournament season tonight.
the master Of match play was able TO
survey rs the handicap of his effnrte
g four-Year- stretch of competition
without an irdiNiduol defeat. four
tournament triumphs during the
campaign of 1925. victories over
Bobby Jones and Abe Mitchell, the
British star. and a medal play rec
ord of 132 for the qualifying rounds
OF the Eastern open championship.
Hagen. who will be "a years o'd
next December. rolled up his fifteenth
straight victory in the professional
event by his triumph over Diegel to-
day. In sharp contrast to his close
matches at Oly,nDia Fields when he
was twice carried beyond the thirty
sixth green. HaSen swept through the
present tournament at Salisbury
without ever being closely pressed de
feating Joe Tu"nesa. 2 and ,: Dick
Grout s and :. Pat Doyle and .'ohnnv
Farrell. s and ). and Djeeel by { and 3.
and Degel by and 3
Gets Jump on DieeeI.
As in his previous matches here.
Hagen got the jump on his foe to-
day with q smashing round Of e2 this
morning. and Diecel. in spite of .
good II. found himself trailing at the
lunrh hour by two holes.
Luck did not favor the defending
champion SO often in his marvellous
approach puts today as in his semi
final contest Yesterday for fire.
quently his hall hung on the very
edge of the Gun. He was in trouble
occasionally. but Hagen in trouble
meant nothing during that dizzy
morning round. for he seemed to Ia
his pitches closer to the flag ont of
the rough than from the best of lies
on the fairway.
That heart-breakins start seemed TO
spell defeat for Diegel. If it didn'
the apparently inevitable outcome he
came Enthusiastically plain at the verv
first hole of tire afternoon round
when the New York PLAYER tossed his
approach far over the hole. The boil
rolled into the street and under
10 reveal the trua nj pellet nesting in
rut After hacking away a. the
hall three times, Leo finally conceded
the hole
Hagen made one OF his few slips
az the next strong wind CARRYING
his ball heyond the green ia cost him
a anV make DiegeI only down once
more Put from that point on the
rharapion was never threatened.
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Nothing seemed tn daunt tie irI-
per:urbahl Hagen. If Diegel made
q marvellous approach within few
feet of the flag. Hagen usually longer
from the tee throughout the match.
would excel it. Diegel dropped long
putt; Hagen was right behind him
with another one to head off any pos
sible rally. Fut perhaps his outstand-
ing shots were made at the green
At the 155.yard sixteenth. Hagen
ran 4 35-footer over a rolling carpet
Of grass to the very lip of the cup for
>. Here the bail stopped for fully
five seconds as the spectators held
their breath, and then, as DieGei bent
10 measure his shot it dropped in. At
the twenty-secord Hagen WAS CON
frouted by dead stymie feet
from the hole. Diege' appeared GER
tain of his win here but HAGEN calm
Is drew ont his mash'e and cleverlN
jumped tho pellet over thai Of the
former Canadian open champion 10
grin his half in par IS.
So II went al through the match.
with Hagen always master of the sit
uation. no matter what the ciTum-
stances He2enS victory 1oda Y
marked his fourth winning of the
championship in six starts. He wa-
the first America born pla YER /" win
the British omen. accomplishing the
feat in 1899. He repeated ana won in
1924.
Hagen has also twice won the
American open. becoming champion at
the age ri u AZ Chicago in 1914. and
rersiniuc the crown Eve years la ef
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