BIG GOLF
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HAGEN LOSES MORE THAN ONE MATCH. A .BOX IN HIS POCKET.
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SYDNEY, March 11. Hagen and Kirkwood were subjecteJ to a, thorougk test when two local prolessionals, Fred Popplewell and Dou Spence, played brilliantlj' in a thirtvh°les match at the Australian Go'f olub s course at Kensington to-day. The local plavers were four up at th? end of the morning round. Hagen ha'i bad luck to burn his hand severely when a box of matches exploded while the seventh Iiole was being played. ihereafter he could not grip his club properly, but he decided to continue. Popplewell and Spence eventuallv won by five and three. Hagen lost his normpl accuracy after burning his left thumb, causing him excruciating pain Kirkwood played gloriously throughout, but the team work of the Australians was too superior and eonsistent. Popplewell in the afternoon displaved the finest pntting in his career. Fifteen hundred people followed the players. The weather and the course were excellent. Conditions were four ball ovej- thirty-six holes, a side wager of £250 Tlie profits of the match went. to the Sydney Hospitnl.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 34, 12 March 1930, Page 3
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189BIG GOLF Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 34, 12 March 1930, Page 3
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