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GALLERY:
PAINTINGS BY H.H. HARRIS
“I’ll trade you my Vardon for your Walter Hagen.” Perhaps a typical transaction between young golfers seventy years ago. The thrill of collecting sports cards has never been limited to the baseball fan. Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland produced sets of these cards for the golf fan in the 1930s. The cards not only provided colorful renderings of accomplished players, but also depicted the great courses of the day. The Journal reprints a sampling of this series of 25 cards in our ongoing celebration of the rich tradition of golf art and collectibles.
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C.O. HEZLET
Hezlet is a heavily-built fellow with the cheeriest of dispositions. Owing to his great size he finds it suits his golf to adopt a very wide stance, and, moreover, he stands rather far from the ball.
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ALEXANDER HEARD
Thick set and sturdy, Heard “sits
down” to his ball and then proceeds
to do what looks like an endless num-
ber of waggles. He has been known to
address the ball twenty-four times
before making up his mind.
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MISS JOYCE WETHERED
One of the finest women golfers, Miss Wethered has an unparalleled record of success in championship golf. Miss Wethered is a stylist, getting her distance which is quite as far as that of the average man) with no effort.
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GEORGE GADD
Gadd’s burly figure and genial smiling
face are familiar and popular “features”
in golfing circles. Gadd has a peculiar
putting style; he gets his elbows well out
and gives the putter one or two quick
upward jerks before striking the balL.
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JAMES BRAID
The fury of the swing of this great Scotsman is always well worth seeing, and in his greatest days when he lashed out at the ball with the exuberance of youth, he was a magnet to the crowd. He is a strong advocate of the “pitch and run” shot, of which he is a master.
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