Word: hagens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professionals would play at the Blue Mound Country Club, the P. G. A. accepted. The only problem was the date of the tournament. To make sure of a first-class field, officials agreed to let members of the Ryder Cup team enter without qualifying in their sections. Nonetheless, Walter Hagen, Densmore Shute, Craig Wood, Paul Runyan and Gene Sarazen said the time was inconvenient. They had exhibition dates. There was talk of withdrawing the $9,000 guarantee, counter-suggestions of withdrawal by many of the pros who were entered. Finally, grinning little Sarazen and smiling little Runyan appeared at Blue...
Before the tournament started, dour, one-eyed Tommy Armour had made a brusque comment on Sarazen's reluctance to play: "Hagen, Sarazen and I ... are just about all washed up, only we don't know it." Grinning Sarazen's comment after the tournament was over was: "Pretty good for a washed-up golfer." He had finished his morning round with Goggin-200 lb., 6 ft. instructor at a San Francisco municipal course-1 up, won three of the next five holes, clinched his third P. G. A. championship with a birdie at the 32nd...
...Joseph F. Hiestand of Hillsboro, Ohio: the 500-target amateur trapshooting championship of the world, with 497 breaks (including an unfinished run of 326) to 494 for Walter S. Beaver of Berwyn, Pa.; at Yorklyn, Del. ¶ Jack Hagen, Long Island golf professional (no kin): a prize in the N. Y. World-Telegram's hole-in-one competition when, first to play among more than 400 entrants, he plunked his third try (out of five allowed) into the hole (148 yd.) on the fly. The hole used was on his home Salisbury Country Club links. ¶ Red-headed Donald...
...Walter Hagen, touring Scotland with young Densmore Shute, new British Open golf champion: three course records in three days; at Kingussie (64), Pitpochry (65), Inverness (64). ¶ Mrs. Dodge Sloane's Caesar's Ghost, shrewdly ridden by Jockey Dominick Bellizzi: the Saratoga Handicap in which Equipoise, favorite despite being assigned a weight impost of 142 lb., was scratched. ¶ William Miller, famed sculler of the Pennsylvania Athletic Club: his fourth U. S. singles championship in a row (a record); by one length over his clubmate, Al Vogt, in the challenge round of the National Association of Oarsmen...
...considered to have more finesse with his iron clubs than any other professional except Tommy Armour, Shute by his victory last week made it seem that he was the likeliest of the younger professionals to acquire the prestige which has been shared for the last decade by Sarazen and Hagen...