The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-07
SKETCHES
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Special Correspondent Writes Of Plays And
 Players In Big National Golf Tourney

q say" said Cyril, "this is jolly. Do wait for me. I shan't be 'alf a moment. Got to ave a splash" He was interviewed few moments later, under embarrassing conditions. He was clothed in a cloud of vapor from the shower.
 q came to the United States ten years ago intending to stay here," he said. It was an oration for Walker 'I was a caddie boy in England Now l have been fortunate enough to win the American open championship, I'm going to stay in America and, I'm one professional golfer who is going to stay with his home club, after winning the championship"
 KeeIer With Jones
 Bobby Jones, a young fellow with spirit that epitomizes the ideal of American spOrtsmanship, went to his room with his Boswell, o. B. Keeler, a sports writer who can't shoot golf for green bananas, but who has been following Jones since the Atlanta prodigy was fourteen years old.
 Amy man who can shoot a 37 under the existing conditions plays the great est golf that ever heard of and rates any tribute the people give him." Bobby said as he sprawled on his bed. "This guy is good. He can shoot a game of golf and he won by shooting a damsite better than one else in the show"
 Bobby is a real estate huckster in Atlanta and he intends to go along with that trade. He is engaged to be mar ried soon, but he threatened to scream and call harsh names if anyone asked him to say when the happy event, as 1t IS called, will take place. Of course he will continue to golf when the busi- ness of peddling off the United States Tn town lots permits him to break away. The seventeenth of June wouldn't be bad guess at the wedding date; however,
 Robertson Dies Hard
 Old Davey Robertson, gray-haired and declining, struggled around the course with Mehlhorn, fighting a hard and dying game. He still had a chance until he reached the 18th green in the final tour of the tricky and treacherous course, but there he took three butts to go down and from that point to the finish he got worse, no better. He waggled his weary head as the ball con- ducted coy flirtatiOns with the cups and rolled short or long or wide by inches. When he landed home with ball he had to report 3O7, which let him out, as MehlhOrn had the front rating at that time, S01.
 There were only four amateurs in the tournament and two of them were among the leaders, Jones, second, and Chick Evans tied with Eddie LoOs, and Robertson for tenth, eleventh and twelfth places with card of BOT. Art Sweet, the unexpected amateur from Chicago, who played so well in the east-west team matches Wednesday, finished with 343 but he made one of the few circus shots of the tournament, slamming a shot from the rough into the cup on the eleventh hole in the afternoon Friday. The professionals who finished in the money were Walk CT, who wins $500 as a prize and the title which is worth a fortune; Mehl- horn, who wins $2O0 and the follow ing:
 Money Division
 Robbie Cruickshank, Hagen, and Macdonald Smith. $115 each; Pete 0'Hara and Abe Espinosa, SIT each; Mike Brady, $7O; Eddie Loos, S62 Davie Robertson, $62; Jones and Evans get medals. Cruickshank. who was up toward the front with 3O3 at the end, came in with Mike Brady, and both of them were squawking and i rowling about the condition of the greens and other slight disadvantages, which were the same, however, for Jones and Walker. Their manners were not exactly sporting, inasmuch as they were being entertained -by the Oakland Hills club at a cost of several thousand dollars and a sacrifice of one weeks use of the course by the sup porting members.