Something else that makes tail draggers a little tamer is to toe-in the wheels slightly. If you look at this set-up, the forward wheel is bent in and the rearmost wheel is pointing straight ahead, so it has less drag, and this naturally tends to point the plane straight. "Tends" is the key word here. You still need a little right rudder to compensate.

The poor guy with the Hawker should have cut his losses and killed the engine as soon as he left the edge of the runway. Hurricanes and Bf-109s are not for the slow of reflex. Narrow wheelbase.