The New York herald., 1922-07-16

le home green, chip from the back
the cup.
Black came along late In the after
noon In company with Jim Barnes and
should have carried or the title. A
brilliant 38 on the first nine. when
he wanted 70 to win, left Black with
81. or one more than par. on the last
nine for the championship. He took
38 and finished in tie for second
place with Bobby Jones, the Atlanta
amateur. while Willie Melhorn Of
Shreveport. La, young man who
used to caddie here at Skokie. finished
fourth with 29o strokes Walter
Hagen. holder Of the British open title.
came in NTH at 2s1.
First Invader II sixth.
George Duncan, tho first Of the in
vaders. made sixth place at 2s7, one
stroke better than the score returned
by Leo Diegel and two better than
the aggregates Of Mike Brady. Jock
Hutchison and John Golden. Duncan
came up into the money with a fin-
ishing card Of 72 after taking rs, 70
and 7b for his first three rounds.
Abe Mitchell of England. who has
been unable to do himself justice on the
green's was outside of the payroll with
total of 3o3. He got his best round
last, scoring 73 after having rs, rs
and II.
Instead Of a runaway. as the cham
pfonship promised 10 be after the OPEN
ing spurt Of Walter Hagen yester1 ay,
the classic resolved itself into one OF
those whirling Kaleidoscope affairs in
to which the outsider gazes with a sense
Of dizziness. At the end of the second
round John Black had displaced Hagen.
eader on the first round, with i42 for
his total. Melhorn was second with 144
sm Hagen and Sarazen tied for third
at 14t. Jones had 14s. There was sono
shufflins OF the deck after the third
eighteen hoSes and still moro at the
finish.
Sarasen Outgnmes His Luck.
At the end Of the morning play Mel
horn with 70 and Jones with 10 had
moved UP into the front Black with a
76 was NEXT at 217. and Hagen with "a
was 219. Saraxen was SIX strokes behind
tho leaders. He had been hooking, hook
Ing. hooking. low. treacherous shots
these. that refused TO miss q single thing
In the way of trouple. II sarazen had
been mads of tho stun that cracks he
would have gone to pieces right there
and then and have been waited away
on zephyr over Lake Michigan.
But Sarszen Is something of the
Hagen mold. With his dark stain and
his sleek black hair plastered tight
down upon his head he looks like
small edition Of Hagen His hooks had
him nearly frantic. or II they did not
that was only because Sarazen refuses
to be upset by the breaks of tho game
Because mainly Of that hooking spell
he required 10 to go out the first time
to-day. Gene merely smiled as he
rolled toward the tenth tee, smiled
back over his shoulder as some one
asked him how II had Jared with him
over the first nine holes He felt that
his chances of reaching his hearts de-
sire were glirnmering with every shot
that he pulled into trap or the rough.
They we're tantalizing. II seemed this
time that he could not hit the ball
right
Sarazen has only recently arrived at
mans estate. but no has veterans
experience and a patrfarcn's confidence.
Ho knows that golf Is funny game
and that no ono who plays the cleels
and tho brassie oan WOO the muse d1y
in and day out. And 30 he set his face
confidently towards the west blazing the
trail down towards the Skol<ie swamp
against which nuttercd the tenth nagpln.
beckoning him to victory or defeat
Then oene Finds the Leak.
Little Gene got q par 4 and then
dropped another stroke on = hook at the
eleventh. Then he found the leak that was
threatening TO SINK MIN. plugged It and
managed TO struggle homo IN 35 for a
round of 75. This left the coming cham
pion six shots behind. Probably Gene
had begun to think that his hopes were
scattered along the bunkers and rough
OF that first nine holes.
With Melhorn and Jones and Black
and Hagen out there IN rront there
looked like little chance for Sarazen.
especially after the way he had been
going. But the night is blackcst some
times before the dawn. BY afternoon
the clouds that had been obscuring
Sarazen's vision of glory and fame
parted as II by magic. The sun came
out and lighted his path with dazzling
brilliance. In place OF the 40 the Rye
born and bred lad. the former Apawan-
Is caddie boy, now proceeded TO score
n g for the first nine holes. And there
he was right back again among TIE
contenders. one stroke under the Skokie
par for the first nine holes OF tie
course.
only about one mistake had Sarazen
made over these nine holes this time
He was drifting along on the placid
waters of prosperity where before he
had been bressting the surge that
threatens destruction. His one bad shot
was at tire second hole. where he pushed
hia iron TO the trap oa tho right. H0