Evening star., 1932-07-03
HAGEN AND JURADO
ALSO INVITED HERR
Armour Makes Smart Move
Signing With Gene-Champ
a Changed Person.
BY WALTER r. MeCALLUM.

DA "h4A AsAS ~ -sANNNA1O4As
TT begins to look as it Wash
ington is going to have a
4 peek at the new Gene Sara
zen-the same stubby little
Italian-Am who has so conf
quered himself and his game that
he has become the first profeS1
Sional in the history of golf I'd
win the American and British
open championships in the SAND
year.
Just when Gene will come I'd
Washington to put on exhibition
the game which has placed him
on the crest cannot now be told
but 1t Is a virtual certainty that
he will appear here in an exhibit
ton match during the SummeI
and possibly in two matches.
With the little New Yorker viii com
Tommy Armour. the smart man
professional golf, who again ha,
demonstrated his smartneSs by hooking
up with Sarazen in series Of pro
fessional exhibition tilts throughou
the season. Tommy signed Gene u
while they were in Britain playing 10
the British open title, and how good
guess Tommy made is shown by tn
fact that the man he signed up y
play with this year came from far bacl
to cop the American open title and
become the first professional to make
double in the big championships.
IN addition TO Sarazen and Armour
i another top-notch professional paid
also probably will make an appear
ance on one of the Washington courses
this year, seeking the coin that goea
ing gallery. This pair Is Walter HagenI
the ''old duke" and Jess Jurado Of ths'
Argentine. Hagen, still q formidable
golfer despite the loss of his once IA
nous putting touch, and Jurado, the
slender, graceful Argentinian, make 4.
colorful pair and q combine that VIII
amply reward a golfer looking for coloI1
with his brides and pars.
Negotiations now are under way with
the managers of Sarazen and ArmouI
and Hagen and Jurado for the appear-l
ance Of both these combinations before
Washington galleries, with the prob
ability that SaraZen and Armour viii
play here either late in July or early.
in August over one of Washington 4
leading courses. Tommy told me a few
days ago at Fresh Meadow that Id
understood he and Sarazen were com4
ing to Washington to play in a Bicen1
tennial match. but in addition to thi4
proposed contest. one Of the local club4
Is dickering with this pair for anothei
exhibition. The announcement of th4
Hagen-Jurado match Is expected to bA
made within few days.
THIS Jurado gent. who has had three
l. national Championships under his
thumb over the last four years. is
very fine golfer and no mistake. Ha-
gen, SaraZen and Armour ell have been
seen before around Washington, but
Jurado is a new figure on Washington
golf courses. He Is a little chap, weigh
ing only 135 pounds. but every ounce Of
that weight goes into a golf ball. He
knocks the ball long distance. 1t Is
his iron shots, however, that will inter-
est students of the gone. Jurado has
practically no follow-through with the
irons. He plays most of his iron shots
with distinct punch, in which the
club, after hitting the ball and laking
an enormous divot, stops within cou-
pie Of feet after the turf and the ball
have flown. And he gets tremendous
results with this punched shot. He is
as accurate an iron player as we have
seen.
WASHINGTON golfers will see a new
Wv Gene Sarazen when the stocky
little New Yorker comes to the|
Capital. Genes mental outlook on thel
game has changed. He always appear
ed to have plenty of confidence, butt
that confidence seemed that Of theI
youngster who whistled as he passed
the graveyard, hoping ghost wouldn't
appear. A few bad breaks and Gene'sl
confidence oozed away. But now III
stays with him. No more is he disturbed
by a bad shot or bad kick from q good
shot. He takes 'em as they come andI
a bad shot doesn't disturb him. He haSl
become the iron man Of golf.
We know of no man who could havel
done as Gene did on the seventy-secoEdl
green at Fresh Meadow, where, whenI
the uproar of a tremendous gallery
pushing and showing around him was at
its height, he calmly stepped into al
bunker and whacked the bali out within
six feet Of the pin and then holed the /
putt. The SaraZen of other years
would have fumed and fretted about
the disturbance, but not the Gene OIL
today He has those nerves well under
control. 1t means the difference be-
tween winning and losing champion-
ship. You'll see different Sarazen
when the stubby little black-hairedI /
chap pokes one down the middle of one
of the Washington courses 9 few weeks
hence.