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During the Golden Age of Sports in the 1920s, Walter Hagen was to golf what Babe Ruth was to baseball. The first professional golfer to make his living playing the game rather than teaching it, Hagen won eleven major professional tournaments over his long career -- two U.S. Opens, four British Opens, and five PGA Championships (including an amazing streak of four consecutive PGA wins) -- a record surpassed only by Jack Nicklaus. Hagen was also influential in helping to found the Ryder Cup and was the first American golfer to top $1 million in career earnings -- a figure equivalent to over $40 million today.
Award-winning sportswriter Tom Clavin has penned a thrilling biography that vividly recalls Hagen's dazzling achievements and the qualities that made him a star. Energetic, witty, and one of the best putters ever to walk the green, Hagen was a man who loved to party, was extraordinarily generous to his friends, and golfed the world over, giving exhibitions. He preferred to travel by limousine, and if he intended to stay awhile he'd bring a second limo just to transport his clothes, which were nothing but the finest. On his many trips across the Atlantic to compete in the Ryder Cup or British Open, Hagen was known to throw parties that lasted days, ending only when the ship reached the shore. He was also the first professional golfer to admit to playing not only for the love of the game, but also for the love of the winner's purse.
Walter Hagen, forerunner of today's sports superstars, is as dynamic a character as can be found in American sports history. Bringing Hagen to life with incredible detail and countless anecdotes, Sir Walter is the authoritative biography of the man who helped create professional golf as it's known today.
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You have to love Sir Walter.......2007-10-16
As a retired Naval Flyer, I thought I had lived a grand life thus far, but Walter is my new role model. Don't hurry, don't worry, we're only here for a short visit, so be sure to stop and smell the flowers along the way. While this book has some sad realities of just living life, he was so genuine, fun, and good at his craft that you can't help but put his flaws aside and join the ranks of innumerable professional golfers who have praised him for his vision, bravado, and realistically for expanding the ream of professional golfers and opening doors that previously were very closed. I bought a set of Walter Hagen clubs from Dicks Sporting goods and decided to delve a bit into this unknown fellow and what I got was a wonderful history lesson in golf, sportsmanship, business acumen, and how to enjoy life to the fullest.
Sir Walter, Out from the Shadow of St. Bob.......2005-08-21
This is a wonderful book, and an important American chronicle as well. Noted editor, journalist and golf writer Tom Clavin has gone where few have in the past, finally providing us with a stylish and authoritative biography of the great Walter Hagen, and of that man's lasting impact on the sport, both domestically and on the international stage. In doing so, Clavin has restored "The Haig" to his rightful place in the pantheon of golfing greats and as the true pioneer of American professional golf.
For anyone even remotely interested in the royal and ancient game, this book is a must and a joy. But for anyone who simply loves a good read, and one about a compelling personality-in other words, the type of sportsman who transcends his sport-this is also a book certainly worth the time and entertainment value.
Clearly, Clavin has a certain affection for this subject, but he also brings the cool eye of the practiced reporter to the tale, separating the caricature of "Sir Walter" from the reality, telling the man's story less as the tale of myth and exaggeration (which Hagen fully contributed to himself) that grew up around him, and is still filtered down to the present day by less talented and thorough writers.
Indeed, Hagen was perhaps the most colorful character ever to play the game at such a high level, and was certainly friendly with the most dynamic personalities and revelers of his era, such as Al Jolson and Babe Ruth. But he was also a fierce competitor and the frequent winner against a host of future Hall of Fame golfers, such as Ted Ray, J.H. Taylor, George Duncan, Chick Evans, Jock Hutchison, "Long" Jim Barnes, and of course, Gene Sarazen and Bobby Jones.
The widely known image of Hagen as a womanizer and party animal, the famous stories of Hagen staggering onto the first tee from a limo in a rumpled tuxedo just in time to make his morning tee time, and of course, the essential spirit of the man who so famously said he didn't necessarily want to be a millionaire, but to live like one, are all here in Clavin's story. But they are also balanced with a more realistic account of how Hagen both enjoyed himself to the full, and yet also sometimes used his image to lull opponents into complacency, or actually hoodwink them. For the first time I know of, Clavin provides some evidence that Hagen did in fact occasionally get a good night's sleep before an important match, often poured his double whiskey into a flower pot when no one was looking, and, even more surprising, was a fiend about practicing his famous putting stroke.
The end result of this balanced reporting is that Hagen the man, and the golfer, are all the better for it. He emerges in Clavin's telling as a fuller and more sympathetic human being, though one hardly less compelling. In addition, we learn of the deep sorrows of his life, which included the heartbreaking loss of his favorite grandson, and of the day Hagen accidentally ran down a little boy with his car, which led to a lifelong hatred of driving. Imagine, the flamboyant Hagen, who rented Daimler limos at the British Open, and had often sported the latest wheels from Detroit, later becoming a nervous, doddering driver and passenger.
Hagen won 40 official PGA tournaments, including 11 professional majors (second only to Jack Nicklaus's 18) and four straight PGA championships (still a record) when that event was a grueling match play affair. Overall, Hagen won five PGA's, while also taking the U.S. Open twice, the British Open four times (the first native-born American to do so) and five Western Opens, when that event was widely considered a major. Hagen was also a stalwart on Ryder Cup teams for a decade, either as a player and/or captain. But the PGA's are what stand out. What further evidence is needed of how steely a competitor Hagen was, and how he ranks as the all-time master of the psychological game? Hagen won 22 straight 36-hole matches in that tournament over various years, and between 1921 and 1928, won 32 of 33.
Clavin should also be thanked for finally pulling "Sir Walter" out from the shadow cast down through the ages by Robert Tyre (Bobby) Jones, Jr., to whom Hagen often had to play second fiddle in the story of American golf. Of course, the "saintly" Jones supposedly played golf for love, rather than money, though Jones had the advantage of hailing from a secure, upper class background (his attorney father built a home alongside the famous East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta), whereas Hagen emerged from the hardscrabble life of a Rochester, N.Y. working class family. It should also be noted, as Clavin does in the first chapter of this book, when Jones and Hagen went head-to-head in an exhibition (Jones could not play in the PGA Championship since he retained his amateur status), Hagen thoroughly dusted his heavily favored opponent.
But the goodies don't stop with Hagen's story alone. This book is also a complete and fascinating chronicle of the early days of American golf, and how the present-day, multi-million dollar PGA Tour emerged from the almost single-handed efforts of Hagen. By sheer force of personality and dash, Hagen helped raised the status of early golf pros from near-servant level to the marquee stars they are today. Leaving a cushy job as a club pro in Michigan, Hagen hit the road, becoming the first American golfer to unabashedly play both for the love of the game, and the love of the money he could make with his considerable skills. Hagen also toured the planet, staging exhibitions and spreading the gospel of golf in Europe, Africa, Australia and Japan, while also lifting a few notes of currency from the natives who turned out in droves to see the famous man play. As Arnold Palmer, the other golfing great who emerged from humble origins to later reign as the "The King" in his era said at a banquet honoring Hagen: "If not for you, Walter, this dinner tonight would be downstairs in the pro shop, not in the ballroom."
Clavin also tells his story by treating us to interviews culled from some of Hagen's great contemporaries (in some cases among the last interviews with those legends) such as the late Gene Sarazen and Paul Runyon, along with appreciations from the Great Lord Byron Nelson, and perhaps the greatest of them all, Jack Nicklaus. Clavin also doesn't mind taking the occasional sidetrack if the telling of a rare anecdote is worth the time and delight to the reader. My favorite in this book concerns an early British amateur champion, who had often played at the famously difficult Prince's Golf Club (I know, since I've played it myself and lost a box of balls, along with two pros I was paired with!), which lies along the southern coast of England. During World War II, the golfer turned RAF pilot, was hit by German fire over the Continent and had to carefully nurse his Spitfire back over the Channel. Needing a sure place to land, he naturally steered toward fairways of Princes and brought down his craft near the 9th hole, though he ended up in the rough rather than the fairway. "I never could hit that fairway," he famously groused afterward. Another tale Clavin tells is of the American golfer who had calmed his nerves before a U.S. Open round with several drams of scotch, and then proceeded to butcher a 185-yard par 3 hole with a record score of 18.
What a delight! Sir Walter, we hardly knew ye...until now.
A Bigger than Life Man.......2005-03-23
There are a handful of sports players who come into a game and leave it quite differently than they found it. I'm not sure that Hagen could be considered the intentor of professional golf, but I am sure that he is a major contender for the title. It seems like a lot of people in the time between the world wars lived life that was bigger than life.
Walter Hagen, like his friend Babe Ruth, seemed to live life the way he wanted. As he said, he didn't want to be rich, he just wanted to live that way. And it seems that he did. Hard parties, triumph on the golf course the next day. Travel was by limousine with a second one for his clothes.
There was a darker side of course, two failed marriages, the death of his son by an accidental gunshot wound, and his own death from cancer - a legacy of 45 years of cigarette smoking.
Mr. Clavin has done a supurb job of bringing this man and his life to us.
The Original Sports Celebrity.......2005-02-25
Even if you are not a golfer, you will enjoy this biography which vividly portrays a man who pioneered the role of the celebrity sports star. The Tiger Woods of his time, Sir Walter Hagen brought attention to the sport of golf as well as himself. Clavin brings alive the era of the roaring twenties and breathes life into his subject with numerous anecdotes which make you feel like you were there on the green in the tie-breaker with Hagen himself. And for someone like me who doesn't know a lot about the history or specifics of the sport of golf, it proved educational on the fine points of the game. Hagen also emerges personally as a real dandy, and a larger than life social figure who always created excitment wherever he went. He sounds just like the type of guy you'd like to hang out with at the pub.
brilliant.......2005-02-23
More than a golf book for people who love golf. Seabiscuit, Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, and, especially, Sir Walter evoke a bygone era of both professional sports and American culture that will never be duplicated. Clavin captures the essence of that era like no other golf book, or sports book, for that matter, that I have ever read. More than anything, when I finished this delicious narrative, I wanted grab my clubs and run out to play a round with Hagen - and then hang out with him and his famous friends in the Nineteenth Hole.
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Presenting a new and revised edition of this well-loved and popular classic. _The Way We Lived_ is a rich and varied collection of stories, love songs, chants, and more from native people around the state. Sometimes poignant, often humorous, and always fascinating, these pieces show the remarkable perseverance of native culture and ways in modern times.
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The Way We Lived: California Indian Reminiscences, Stories and Songs
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Native Californians.......2006-01-01
The following collection of reminiscences, stories, and songs reflects the diversity of the people who once lived in California - a diversity so enormous that it can scarely be imagined today. Picture a typical spring afternoon in California two hundred years ago. On the praries of the northeastern part of the state a man, hiding behind a clump of sagebrush, waves a scrap of deerskin in the air, trying to rouse the curiosity of a herd of graing antelope and draw them within range of his bow and arrow. Along the Klammath River a boy crawls through the circular doorway of a large plank house and walks downstream to watch his father and uncles fish for salmon beneath the redwoods. In the Central Valley a group of women, strings of wildflowers in their hair, wade out into the deep sea of rippling grass to gather roots. As they push forward herds of elk scatter before them. In San Francisco Bay two men paddle a rush boat through the quiet channels of a saltwater marsh. East of the Sierra, families - eager for change and weighed down with burden baskets - leave their witer homes in the desert and trek through pine forests toward thawing mountain lakes and the promise of good fishing. At the edge of the Mohave Desert men and women plant corn, bean and pumpkin seeds in the warm fertile mud of the Colorado River. -- excerpt from book's introduction
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This book provides a detailed, practical and, where possible, research-based rationale for the use of herbal treatments in a wide variety of clinical conditions and problems. Through the filter of current scientific literature, the authors have reevaluated traditional use of herbal remedies and present realistic guidelines for modern practice. A uniquely authoritative guide to applying herbal medicines as serious options for the treatment of some of the most troublesome conditions seen today.
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Good introduction for laypersons.......2006-06-25
"Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy" is a good general introduction to herbal medicine for laypersons looking to incorporate herbs into their family's healthcare. The authors have concocted a rather obtuse "philosophy" of herbal medicine in an attempt to appropriate and justify the philosophies behind all schools of traditional herbalism. Otherwise this text is straightforward and simple to use. Includes information on 45 useful herbs, a managable amount of information for laypersons just starting out in herbalism.
Physicians, nurse practitioners and other health care professionals with an interest in phytotherapy will find "Herbal Medicine" by Weiss and Fintelman or "Rational Phytothrapy" by Schulz, et al more useful for practice.
principes and practice of phytotherapy: modern herbal medicine.......2005-08-07
This book is very neat,it goes well with other books in the field because this book gets very in-depth with each chemical very useful one of the most useful books of my collection. They also add lots of useful examples to bring this information into the present life.
Herbology Course Text.......2004-12-31
Excellent text in use for my adult/graduate classes (including on-line) in herbology. Adequate focus (almost half the text) on history, background, and clinical guides before getting into Materia Medica (full monographs of 45 herbs; I chose 22 of these as class examples). Contains extensive references unmatched in other similar texts. Has useful indexes although text could use a glossary for the numerous medical terms (some not common in U.S. practice). Some important herbs are mentioned in the clinical use guides (e.g., garlic, psyllium) but not treated in monographs. Also some herbs treated are not approved by Commission E or other regulatories (may or may not be important). Overall the best we've seen in clinical herbal texts.
This is THE text on contemporary herbal medicine.......2003-03-21
Kerry Bone, one of Australia's most eminent herbalists, and Simon Mills, a highly respected practitioner from the UK have joined forces to produce a text that was sorely needed by herbalists and naturopaths everywhere.
The information is concise, clear, up-to-date, gives clear scientific explanations for the actions of herbs, while acknowledging traditional usage and folklore.
This is not just another coffee table book about herbs - it's the real thing. I have completed five years of formal training in herbal medicine, and this has been the most extraordinary book I've encountered. If you are studying complementary medicine of any modality, I highly recommend you buy it. If you're a student or graduate naturopath or herbalist, it is essential.
Textbook for Natural Health Professionals.......2001-08-26
This book is essential for those seiously interested in herbal medicine. The book begins by explaining various therapeutic systems and basic principles of treatment and safety for the health care professional. Plant compounds and their effects on the body are explained in a straight forward manner that helps one understand a subject that is usually quite difficult. The materia medica section (plant monographs) lists 45 herbs and the pertinent information necessary to use them with success and safety. I believe this book is as good as it gets in herbal medicine, I can't wait for more plant monograph information from Mills and Bone.
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Long Range Transport of Pesticides
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International experts present the latest vital information on long range transport of pesticides. This book includes sources of pesticides from lakes, oceans, and soil, circulation on global and regional basis, deposition, and fate of pesticides. An ACS Division of Agrochemicals book and Environmental Chemistry book.
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Organochlorine pesticides and heavy metals were analyzed in fish from remote mountain lakes and Lhasa River in Tibetan Plateau. Concentrations of @?HCH, @?DDT and HCB in fish muscles were in the range of 0.13-2.6 ng/g, 0.78-23 ng/g, 0.31-3.2 ng/g based on wet weight, respectively. Heavy metals were routinely found with different levels in fish. The Cu and Zn levels were relatively high with the maximum concentrations reaching 2.0 and 6.9 @mg/g, respectively. Accumulation of OCPs and heavy metals are quite different in tissues and organs. Gill seems to accumulate more OCPs due to absorption by its larger surface per tissue. Heavy metal levels were generally high in liver, eggs and gill, and low in brain and muscle. Results from this study demonstrate that the Tibetan Plateau functions as a regional contaminant convergence zone by long-range atmospheric transport and orographic cold trapping.
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The occurrence of persistent toxic substances (PTS) in China and possibly their regional transport in the Yellow and East China Seas region was studied. Organochlorines in atmospheric gas-phase and particulate matter were collected by high-volume sampling (filters and polyurethane foams) during 2 weeks in June 2003 (dry season) simultaneously at a Yellow Sea coastal site in an urban area, Qingdao, China, and a rural island site, Gosan, Jeju Island, Korea. Using GC methods, the samples were analysed for 9 persistent organic pollutants (POPs) regulated under the global POP convention, namely aldrin, chlordane (cis- and trans-isomers CC and TC), DDT and metabolites (o,p'-DDT, p,p'-DDD, and p,p'-DDE), dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene (HCB), mirex and PCB (congeners number 28, 52, 101, 153 and 180), and for hexachlorocyclohexane (@a-, @b- and @c-isomers), a PTS and now considered for regulation under the convention, too. At the coastal site additionally o,p'-DDE and -DDD, @b-endosulfan, isodrin, heptachlorepoxide and @d-HCH, and at the island site additionally p,p'-DDT and 12 additional PCB congeners were analysed. 9 samples were collected at the coastal and 15 (for PCBs 5) at the island site. Long-range advection pathways were determined based on analysed back-trajectory calculations. The mean concentrations of DDT and its metabolites, HCB, HCH, and PCB at the coast were in the 100-1000pgm^-^3 range. Higher concentrations prevailed during nighttime. The levels were in general lower at the island site, but not for DDT. Local sources are likely. PCBs were even 2 orders of magnitude lower, suggesting that PCBs are not subject to regional transport but elevated concentrations in air are limited to the source areas. Organochlorine pesticide levels on the other hand were seemingly determined by regional transport over Mainland China rather than by emissions in the coastal area. The currently used pesticides mirex and chlordane were found at elevated levels, i.e. 79 (6.6-255) and 36 (
<6-71) pgm^-^3, respectively, at the coast but not over the island. The POPs pesticides aldrin, dieldrin and endrin, never registered in China, were mostly found at
<10pgm^-^3 except for endrin at the coastal site (up to 400pgm^-^3) and aldrin at the island site (up to 50pgm^-^3).
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