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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2497, 10 March 1930, Page 7

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HAGEN IN SYDNEY CROWD AMAZED AT PLAY • (Aust. aud N.Z. Cable) Sydney, March J. Walter Hagen, partnered by t tin Australian open champion,' Ivo Whitton. easily accounted for tho you Inful local champions, H. Hatter-dry and L. B. Wines at Manly. Hallo,-s----ley is a long Litter, and tlie crowd were interested) to sot’i how he emu pared with the, visitor. Tlie local man often made the, longest drives, but Hagen was straigliter. Hagen did tiny journey (Jut in 35, returning in 37. Ho and AV hit ton won two up. Tlio gallery was muse concerned to see Hagen’s play than in thfe result of tlie match. Hagen’s greatest shots *ero a couple of woods which carried him almost 011 to the fifth green, bringing a gasp of amazement, from the onlookers. He was only at: fault at the twelfth? and fourteenth holes, losing a stroke at each. At all the others tlio champion was shooting "par figures.”