GOLFING
HAGEN AND KIRKWOOD
BEATEN
(Australian Press Association)
SYDNEY, March 11
Hagen and Kirkwood were subjected to a thorough test when the local professionals, Fred Popplewell and Don Spence, played brilliantly, in a thirtysix holes match at the Australian Golf Clubs course at Kensington to-day. The local players were four up at the end of the morning round. Hagen had the bad luck to burn his hand severely when a box of matches exploded while the seventh hole was being played. Thereafter he could not grip the club properly, but he decided to continue. Popplewell and Spence eventually won by five and three. Hagen lost his normal accuracy after burning his left thumb, which caused him excruciating pain. Kirkwood played gloriously through out, but the team work of the Australians was too superior and consistent. Popplewell, in the afternoon, displayed the finest putting off his career. Fifteen hundred people followed the
players. The weather and course yr r ere excellent. Tim conditions were four balls over 36 holes. There was a side wager of C 260. The profits of the match went h> the Sydney Hospital.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1930, Page 6
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