The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 8, 1924, Page 13

TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1924 r THE SEATTLE STAR PAGE 1% WALTER HAGEN BRANDED AS AMERICA’S GREATEST GOLF STAR ® (3inacl V ¥ Smith Has Lake Burien Takes (qq 11. D2...) Army Mento Have Mercer Club Wins New Yorker Shows His TIMELY TIPS pay Se ye Fulls Game From Orillia Moakley Predicts a f From Youngstown Big Golf Tourney . a Andy Smith, Caliotraia footbail| ‘The faut Lake Burien eiwd cote | Yankee Victory} co Stuff in’ British Play|| AMATEURS _jimestascs nce renee sue tee §t || ont Gent ee the fullback je ° t ted States Olym - SAYS DAVE BANCROFT | ¥a* Jack Witters dy lee eague 6 bio Games roa 9 Walter Hagen Has Established Enviable Golf Record ae ce ity oer gay eae epee od bape ep recone sored | | TR. ole | | ntes in British Competition, Winning Two Times and Mager te, ack position and there is no reason | 4, se Aer Jip fous rheley non Within a Stroke of It a Third tr to Delleve that the veteran plays : seen ate eligible BY FRANK GETTY Both of these boys are great at loritia smashing thru the line an be EW YORK, July &—The recent victory of Walter Hagen depended upon for yardage at crucial |“ padgro and Chavey. Patterson and a fe ate a ya in the Britis ben golf championship stamps him as a times Z O'Reill Young Dudley May 3 “Abbott Ge Cro : golfer, the greatest ever pr ced i he Unite: « makes it pos . nes and Aust supergolfer, t rea ever produced in the United wo elder to pull @ smart! The peace-loving Mr, O'Goofty de : Meet Gene Cline Long Beach Man States a ae te , i pla dling of @ relay from|plores the frequent fistic clashes} Walter Hagen Wins Tommy Simpson, the Oakland p P d Medal It was not so much his final triumph as the manner injtne outfield that would otherwise | between players and umpires I $15, 000 Hi [f | moter, is having resente edal |New Open Champ which he achieved it that impressed. be waste |think it gives the game a black ’ on riimse ae wee re oe ee OF dey dD of Long Beach, ( * Hagen came from behind with the old familiar rush; cool he opposition has a tendeney | eye,” he laments Walter Me on i pe epee hae: ceed Racin tit tebe pe te lH was to Tour Nation clues etl tt wil b such ph in alter Hagen, Brit t ne ‘ t ( Amer © as a cucumber when his most dangerous rivals were already |.°.'<" . ae | lrelays, and stopping « on, bet $2,600 on pe something bet ant n ivee" 3 \ series with the/rally, by playing the ball occasions I waslleast expected point 1 k on} Alw in with eards that required par golf under nerve-racking conditions. ¥ By winning this year's title at Hoylake, the New Yorker *°"*t has established a record. He has captured two British open championships in three years and finished second a third time, only one stroke separating him from Arthur Havers, | winner in 1923. Hagen was eveebrik, One. StTOKs sepa | Super-Golfer [itor in 1922. PREFERS NOT TO LEAD CU VINSE DAY sas me, MOM’N POP Trying to Slip Out on Soft Soap > win the rece »| Young Dudley, ne, Walt Gene Cline. Both boys } n $15,000 Heattle st day's pl ship. He likes to be ted fc or third, or even fourth. Th year, when the cards were in afte A an op ot to be lea: The barn FOOL I'VE BEEN FOR SUSPECTIN: WW GOOD HUMOR SO L GUESS 7 ct DARLING HUSBAND OF the frst day, he was in third pl LOU OF LONELM TOMIGHT (— which suited him perfectly, He suf = S0 1 THOUGHT | KES THE G fered none of the strain of p Tie wo mom Y FASCINATING? g. and there is no golfer In the Cie i game with greater confidence in his own ability to gain the neceasa’ | strokes to overcome a rival's two or threestroke advantage By taking it eaxy the firat day, if | one could be said to be taking things) | i] } easy when they are shooting a diffi. | pp AND cult course under championship rules | yest ae jin the low seventies, Hagen had en — } Omething in reserve for the finish | | bruais. Brimming with confidence, Hager went out that second day at Hoylake. f | crept slowly but surely up on C. W | Whitcombe, who was leading, and M played flawless golf on tho last nine a, ul i holes—even fours—to win by one { Copyright. 1924. by NEA Service, Ine. stroke Whitcombe, faced with the | ing prospect of bein: win his first WALTER HAGEN the strain This picture of Walter Hagen, out on the tcinner of the British open crown, fed gamely a, ~ BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES round. EH t his falter \ GUESS Ih Wwe BuveE oR SomeTHiN’! | THINK | KNOW JUGT WHAT YOU NEED ~A GOOD was teken cs he played at Hoylake. his 35 coming in wa BUT Most ALL TH 1105 HAVE “I VACATION, | \M GOING TO WRITE TELL. Ul Simi ccuaaeeaa i te to his ‘courage, but it was Now , HONEY, WITH YouR hii i sonar AN THEY Caine hare Ay ah ae Comme pone Fon A WHILE! AND . M ! rw 1 ONLY Mu o Seattle Lacrosse With 64 holes: played, Hagen we NtwW WAT AND SCARE home (VE EVER CHICKEN ~ AND WADE, IN THE KNOWN , AN! YOURE TH ; ONLY MOTHER I'VE CREEK™AND FEED THE CHICKENS. TS WILL LOOK JUST ty REALLY EVER HAD. BUT ~ BUT —— Yoo CUTE Om You! A stiff, Team to Practice } On even terms with his rival fitful breeze was sweep! roll The Seattle Lacrosse team will #0! ing ¢alrways. The Ar n pulled "a ne final practice paces Tues | some tron s, his only mistakes. iy afternoon on aed s he was a man of land grounds at 6 « ittér green, tong thon for the game with cad tata Vie ie where" h Athletic cfub team at Victoria, B.C.) fraction of an inch might have Saturday. All the players are ex: | Tietad. to attend j meant failure PICKS LP TWO STROKES Joe Dundee Fails Hagen, starting even on that last round, picked up two strokes on to Impress Fans) wWritcomte goine out. Hin 41 truce Joe Dundee, the Baltimore light-| cold fear into the hearts of the © ‘weight in quest of Benny Leonard’s | ish in the gallery. Then White (own, invaded New York recently | braced and got home in 35. The 4nd defeated Johnny Clinton, the; Yorker had to sheet even fou Tagged East Sider. Dundee, in wi the back nine. Which is just w ) ning, did not impress the fans, | he did. { he and Clinton engaged in no less} On the last green he was sev than 15 clinches per round. | feet from the pin on a sloping gre ——_—_——_——- his ball located above the cup that a miss might mean loss of Archery Tourney te. “Haken heeded ous sot to'win:! Starts August 19 gts to tie. He sank the putt. z ‘The British congratulated Hasge- The National Archery association | warmiy: they consider him of the United States will open its! oads our greatest golfer annual tournament at Deerfieid,) - Mass, August 19 | Tee : | Veteran Golfer Is BLANKENSHIP THRU Tet Blankenship, Chieago Amert- Hero of Tourney “an pitcher, hax been indefinitely} J. H. Taylor, golf veteran, in his Mispended by Manager Evers and | late 60s, with five British cham fas returned to his home in Okla | pionshipa to his credit, was the most homa with slight probability of re-| heroic figure of the recent British [7 ‘ 2 i a turning. lopen tournamen. Taylor, despite Fe * “4 You SAY Son ae rs on }his handicap of age, and a torturing f Lyf , EVERY BODY ‘The matter of carrying the British|tumbago, won fourth place In that s y 1S ON HAND #0lf cup back and forth across the | high-class field that went «after this \ er :, ) EXCEPT AMlantic must be a source of con-|year’s title at Hoylake. He led the _ ; ‘siderable oyance to Mr. Hagen. | field in the qualifying rounds. | My « ca) ‘ 5 GRANDPA Wouldn't it be awful if the win-/| 18 VETERAN Ring spurt of the Washington team| Joe Sugden, coach of St. Louis turned out to be just another Nick ' pitchers, has been playing baseball Altrock joke? for 31 years. | (EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO| he YY o, ih i EGRERT ROBBINS W | HOME AFTER MANY YEARS ABSENCE =. TR hams, WAS THE CENTRAL FIGURE AT THE - (Copyright, 1994. by NEA Service, Ine.) ROBBINS FAMIL-Y REDNION TODAY — = BY BLOSSER S gAy! pow BARK AT ME=TM HIS BROTHER! HERE TRIx! QUIT BARKIN’ UKE THAT = TRIx! TRIX! MAKE HIM SP! MAKE Kia stop!! 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