Word: compston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sarazen, and as for Hagen, he was leading and looked like a certain winner-Hagen, who had been acting in the movies all winter, who had given his clubs away and decided only a few months before to quit golf, Hagen, who had been beaten 18 up by Archie Compston in an exhibition match...
When anyone's hands blister playing golf it means that the player is just learning the game or that he has not played for a long time. Walter Hagen, after one day's practice in England where he had gone to play Archie Compston a match for $3,750, got a big water blister on the pad of flesh at the base of the little finger of his right hand. One English sports writer said that the match ought to be postponed. Hagen wanted it postponed himself. He explained that he had come all the way from...
...very sorry, his car had broken down, an explanation that nobody accepted, least of all Mitchell who, exhausted and keyed up by waiting, played badly and was badly beaten. This time Hagen, with a tall detective beside him, got to the course an hour early and waited for Compston. The Englishman laid him a stymie at the first hole, was three up at the fifth; Hagen sliced his drive into a ditch at the sixth and picked up; at the seventh Compston outdrove him by 50 yards. Hagen had 148 for the first 36 holes. Compston...
...Archie Compston (British...
...newfangled arrangements but just "played for the pin" as usual) had amassed 172 points and was the winner. C. H. Corless, Abe's English compatriot, was second with 161 points. Rugger Bill Melhorn of Chicago was third with 160 points. Other scores: Walter Hagen 148 points, Archie Compston 134, Joe Kirkwood 128. "Par" in points was 228. Comparison of the medal (stroke) scores shed but little light on the relative merits of "guid auld" and "scientific" golf. Mitchell equaled the course record of 69; Melhorn...