Word: hagens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year, in the New York World-Telegram Hole-in-One tournament, the first starter was 54-year-old Jack Hagen, professional at the Salisbury Country Club course at Westbury. L. I. where the tournament was held. He holed out a shot on the fly (TIME...
Last week, Jack Hagen was one of 447 players who shot five balls each on Salisbury's 148-yd. third hole in the World-Telegram's 1934 Hole-in-One contest. Odds against a hole-in-one are about 20,000-to-1. After 2,235 balls had been played last week, the closest to a winner was one hit by Edward Searle, 26, a Manhattan brick company sales clerk. It bounced across the cup, stopped 17 in. to the left...
...professional in the U. S., had Gene Sarazen, defending champion, 2 down at the 28th hole. Sarazen got birdies on the next two holes to square the match, then got a birdie 3 at the 33rd. sank a 15-ft. putt at the 34th to win 3 up. Walter Hagen scored a 68 in his first round against Densmore Shute, British Open champion in 1933. Shute won the match on the 15th green in the afternoon. He had played 98 holes in 28 under par by the time he was eliminated in the semi-finals by blond Craig Wood...
...amazing thing about Henry Cotton's first two rounds in last week's British Open Golf Championship at Sandwich was not that the first (67) tied Walter Hagen's record for the Open nor that the second (65) set a new record and put him nine strokes ahead of the field. It was the fact that Cotton is a Briton. No Englishman has won the British Open since Arthur Havers...
...witch Aase, the bibulous druggist and his crony, the hotelkeeper; the postmaster's flirtatious wife, the village swains, masons. et al. Readers to whom Scandinavian literature is synonymous with gloom will find themselves agreeably surprised into many a chuckle over the mock courtship of Druggist Holm and Fru Hagen; the rival evangelists and their war over the Holy Ghost; the hit-or-miss conversations between a visiting Englishman and the squire's sister (carried on largely, out of politeness to the guest's linguistic shortcomings, in peasant profanity). In a rousingly successful benefit concert the final number...