The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-06
c YRIL WALKER IS v SECOND WITH 148
Robertson Finishes Third With Score Of 149
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By wESTBROOK PEGLER E UAased VTira fo .UAralal


 M. OAKLAND HILLS COUNTRY CLUB, DETROIT, Mich, June b. Bill Mehlhorn. who learned his golf by observing and avoiding the way the uuffers did things as he shouldered , their bags over the Skokie Links at Chicago, will go out over the lumpy property of the Oakland Hills club Friday morning with direct challenge to Bobby Jones for the American Open championship.
 Mehlhorn and Jones were tied at the end of the first 36 holes with cards Of, 141 when the fretting gladiators came In from their late spring blow ing Thursday evening.
 ';For a time the United States Golf association thought it would be pretty to pair the two young leaders for the second and final day of the greatest occasion on the American Golfers i: calendar. But such a match might have imposed an unfair mental burden on Bobby and Bill, playing against one tanother and the field, so it was later decided to send Jones out in the com !. pa1ly of Gene Sarazen and Mehlhorn with Dave Robertson the middle-aged white-haired veteran who has played close to many titles in his time but has never sunk the putt triumphant in the big competitions.
 Robertson Has 14s
 Robertson stalked off the final green Thursday afternoon and through the crowd to the score-board with a card of 149, which at that time seemed to be the second best record of the day. He was set back, however, when Cyril Walker, the flyweight professional from Englewood, N. J., completed his tour with 8 total of 14S.
 Painting messengers who raced down the course to appris@ Walker of the fact that he would enter the tie with Jones and Mehlohrn by playing stead fly on the last few holes, apparently uput the slim Jersyman's mental prise for he became exceedingly cautious and played one over par on the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth. He needed three pokes with his butter to coax the ball into the last cup.
 Cruickshank's Score 149
 Bobby Cruickshank, who fought Jones to tie and lost, the play-off efor the championship at InwOGl last year, matched Roberston's s score with ifl49 of his own and Macdonald Smith, ewho disappeared from golf many years ago, only to come back muttering the Coue formula to his ball, was next be- hind them with I50. Smith has come back long distance since he seized himself new grip and reentered the big competitions with a spiritual i'm pulse behind his clubs.
 es This is the way the leaders played the first 36 holes over a course strewn with diabolical traps and humps and with greens that rise and fall like [ Jones, s7,s7-74; s6-s7-7s-147 :; Mehlhorn, 36-36-72; 39-36-75-14T ; Walker, 36-3S-74; 3673S-74-14S K MehIhOrn Not Botehered
 : Like the Sarazen of Skokie, who was alloyeda to play his own game in his iqwn way without more than casual glance from. the spectators, Mehlh0rn was let alone Wednesday because he is not and never has been champion in the national way MehlhOrn has had career something like that of Bobby Jones for he has been almost to the top without arriving and has learned to accept the slings and arrows Of outrageous fortune with equanimity. He.rtied. Hagen for the Texas open fn 1929 but lost He fought for the open championship on his boyhood links at Skokie the year that Sarazen won