San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-27
|MEHLHORN IS
SECOND WITH
F211 STROKES
Fast Going Features Third
Round Of Texas Open,
Despite Rain.
HOT AFTERNOON RACE
Finish Tournament Promises
Great Struggle Among
Leaders.
STRAIN BREAKS SOME
Joe Lally Slips to 70 in
Forenoon, Losing High
Place in Lists.
HOT AFTERNOON RACE
STRAIN BREAKS SOME

Walter Hagen. demonstrating that
be is the great money player be has
blways been said TO be, played the
morning round of IS holes in the Texas
open golf championship at the Munich
bal course in Breckenridge Park Satur-
lay in the record score of 80. and took
he lead with a total for the 81 holes of
POS, three strokes ahead of Bill Mebl.
horn, who led through Friday, who re-
CURED "A Saturday morning. Mehl-
horns total is I'll
Hagen's 81 broke a record recently
ct by Clarence Mangham, San An.
|eQi9 professional, by one stroke. His
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Hagen's performance is dOubly no.
able in that it was made on a course
beginning to get trOublesomely wet
rom intermittent drizzles. He holed
but a 20-fOot putt on the eighteenth
treen for his record.
Makes Great Comeback.
Hagen's great comeback after a
Ipn the first round Friday and i'm
proved playing by other stars in the
tournament promised some mighty golf
or the final IS holes Saturday after
boon.
Other leaders after the morning
ound follow:
Jack Burke. st. Paul, 7O-21S: John
iolden, Tuxedo, \. Y. 70-21S: Ralph
tmith. Denver. 1928: Jim Barnes.
New York. 1929; Joe Kirkwood. Aus
ralia, 77-210; Bob PEBBLES. Louisville,
300: Fred Macleod. Washington. -
I21: Joe Lally, San Antonio. 79-221.
Jack Tarrant. leading amateur. came
4 with &c and had a total of 224.
fill be held to decide the champion
}unday. r
The golfers and one hundred invited
uests will attend banquet at the
|lenger Hotel Saturday night.
Mehlborn Leads Friday.
With Bill Mehlhorn, blond profes-
Onal from the Shreveport Country
Ilub. well in front with a five-stroke
|hargin after two brilliant rounds I'M
er 40 Friday. 81 professionals, mixed
With a few amateurS-the field was
|educed from "a Friday by withdraw
Is.
Mehlhorn's IS Friday morning was
|bllowed by a 60 in the afternoon and
L collected three prizes of So each and
fraction of another in which a tie
kisted. for breaking 20 twice and hav-
hg low score on one round and a tie
pr low score on the other.
The gallery is picking Mehlhorn to
nd the tournament but looks for a
oSe fight, with finish considerably
oser than five strokes between first
nd second. Most of the leaders i'm
roved their scores in the afternoon
riday and were of the opinion they
ere just getting into their stride.
Joe LalIy Going Great.
| The feature Of the tournament so far
ON local standpoint is the showing
| Joe Lally. Joe. brother of Tom, the
an Antonio Country Club champion.
as picked to finish down the line. be-
" his brother, who has Outplayed him
practice and preliminary stuff. Now
be, with 60 and a 70 Friday. is in
for second with Jack Burke of st.
aul and Joe kirkwood, the Australian
ar. at 142.
What's getting the players / talking,
,wever, is the way Jack Tarrant, San
|ntonio city champion, the only ANA
ur in the running, IS sticking up with
leaders. Tarrant's Il and 73 Fri
put him in seventh place with IA.
atween second place, where the triple |
exists, and him are the two most |
nous players of the field, Walter |
agen and Jim Barnes, tied with 143 |
agen cut three strokes from his morn |
round Friday by playing 30 in the |
ternoon, while Barnes came down
IN, II 70 so