The Washington times., 1927-11-04
ARMOUR IS
BEATEN BY
HAGEN

CEDAR CREST COUNTRY CLUB,
DALLAS, Tex. Nov. 4.-Only two
men stood between Walter Hagen. of
Pasadena, Fla, and his fifth National
professional Golf Association cham
pionship as the tenth annual tourna-
ment entered the semi-final round
here today.
The great "Haig." who has won
about every prize in golf for which
ne was eligible to compete, meets AL
Espinosa, of Glencoe, ILL.,, today, and
II he wins he will face the winner of
Joe Turnesa-John Golden match in
tomorrow's finals. Those two are
the remaining survivors in the lower
bracket. Turnesa halls from Films
Ford. n Y, Golden is registered
from Paterson. n. J..
After cOnquerinT the national
and Canadian open champion,
Tommy Armour, of Washington,
ID. C.. yesterday, Hagen became
q long shot favorite to cop the
tournament. If he succeeds, it
will give him four I'm a row.
He also won in 1921. Hence, a VIC
tory this year will give him the out
standing record Of having won half
OF the P. G. A. tournaments held in
the history of the organization.
which was founded in 1915, the year
or the first tournament. Operations
were suspended during the war
years of 1917 and 1918.
AS the four survivors OF the first
three rounds match play prepared to
tee off today. the ''Haig" was quoted
all the way from to / to 2 to l to
win his semi final match, with
Espinosa. The latter was carried to
the thirtysixth green Thursday by
Mortie Dutra. the dark horse from
Tacoma, Wash. However, Espinosa
eliminated the tough Harry Cooper
on the latter's own course in the
second round, and # he gets shot" he
may give the defending champion
some trouble.
Joe Turnesa Is q short odds
favorite to defeat Golden i'm the
other match of the day and re-
CARELESS which Of the two
wins, he will be a decided
under-dOg when he goes against
Hagen, providing. of course.
that Walter lives up to expecta-
taOns against ESplnOsa.
Three of the four favorites came
through their quarter.final matches
yesterday. The one upset, and 1t
wasn't startling one. was the de-
feat Of Gene SaraZen. 1922 and 1923
champion, at the hands of the
1anky youth from ElmfOrd. This
au-ltalian match ended on the
thirty-fourth green when Turnesa
canned a 1O-foot putt for birdie
four.
The Hagen.Armour battle was the
feature Of the day from the stand
point Of public interest, however,
Tommy went down with big gal.
lery pulling for him. At times he
flashed brilliantly, but on other
occasions he was equally listless,
and he lost before the great
Walters steady and consistent
plugging. ..,
on both rounds Tommy had
chances on the. tough 465-yard
fourth hole to make the going hard
for his opponent, but he played I'M
sound golf to throw away his OPP
portunity.
= Another example Of his in.
and-Out game was on the fifth
Of the afternoon round. where
he whaled a magnificent eco.
yard brassie through a narrow
neck, on to the green. and
pmtted three times to get only a
half.
John Golden had a ee-saw tussle
with Francis Gallett through the
twenty-seventh hole, but finally
frightened down and made quick
work OF his opponent, winning on
the thirthy-fourth green.
Huge crowds again turned out
for the matches and they were
eongregating early today, indicating
that galleries would total better
than ten thousand for the semi