The ep09 The Incredible Man Walter Hagen

This is Jimmy Powers, ready to bring you another story from the Tumalt and the Shoutings. Well fans, this is Jimmy Powers transcribed bringing you some of the never-to-be-forgotten anecdotes and stories from Grantland Rice's autobiography, The Tumalt and the Shouting.

Today we go to the first tee with one of the most colorful figures in sports golden age, or any age. Walter Hagen, the Hagen, Sir Walter. Whatever the appellation, Hagen handled it with the debonair charm of a Jimmy Walker, another dazzling ornament of the Golden Twenties. Walter Hagen, through his golf and his color, amassed

more than a million dollars and managed to blow about every cent of it. The inference is not that Hagen is broke, far from it. It was simply that Hagen-like Ruth, Tilden, Dempsey, and so many other top headliners of the Dazzlin Twenties could burn up his earnings as fast as they flowed in. So, with a bow to the spirit of granny rice, beloved dean of

sports riders, I pick up the tumult and the shouting. Turn to the chapter of Walter Hagen and in first person, tell you the story of the incredible man. It was in 1912 while I pounded out my column the sport light that Hagen, a young caddy then, was pounding the fairways of the country club of Rochester. In those days, golf was still

pretty much restricted to the exclusive social centers around Westchester County and Long Island. Blessed with a pair of strong, quick hands, Hagen was trying to choose between golf and baseball as a career. Extraordinarily keen at shagging golf balls on the fly or on the bounce, young Walder caught the eye of Andy Christie, the club professional. Christie promoted