HAGEN WINS TWO UP AND ONE

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17878, 21 June 1926, Page 15

HAGEN WINS TWO UP AND ONE

DEFEATS MITCHELL IN CHALLENGE MATCH. By Telegraph.—Press —Copyright Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, June 19. Mitchell and Hagen were all square at the ninth hole in the third round. Hagen won two up end one to play. Reuter's Telegrams. LONDON, June 20. The attendance was 2000 and the weather was glorious. IL gen’s recovery was due to magnificent putting. He squared at the sixth hole in the morning and turned square. A masterly approach at the tenth gave the American the lead. He was two up at the fifteenth, Mitchell reducing the deficit ta one at the seventeenth. In the afternoon Hagen won the fourth, Mitchell won the sixth, Hagen turning one up. Hagen holed a ten yard putt at the thirteenth for two up, but Mitchell squared, winning the fourteenth and fifteenth. Hagen, with a fine four at the sixteenth, regained the lead, and Mitchell, cutting his second shot at the seventeenth into the roadway, was unable to halve, Hagen winning two up and one.