The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-07
By WESTBROOK PEGLER (Leased Wire tO .Herald.l

OAKLAND HILLS COUNTRY CLUB, Detroit, June 6.-Cyril Walker a scrubby little Englishman, skinny anC lean and sun-burned to the tint of q frankfurter, dawled home through the crowds to the eighteenth green of the Oakland Hills golf course Friday aft ernoon to win the national open golf championship from Bobby Jones, the blocky young amateur from Atlanta, Ga
 ''I'm too little," Cyril explained. "I usually weaken on the second day. Still got 148 today and as long as I'm up with the leaders I mean to lave a go at the championship"
 Slow Player
 Walker has always been slightly less popular than a typhoid carrier with the other celebrities of his trade because he usually plays at a rate of one hole an hour or thereabouts. Last year at Inwood, the golf association sent him out alone. because all the others pro. tested that they would be tripping over their own whiskers by the time they got to the home green if they had to play with the deliberate little flyweight from England. They have called him creeping paralysis" and have voiced the reproach that Cyril plays around the calendar.
 When he was drifting along the course here, one of the professionals all handsome and manly with his hair greased and his white panties bellying in the breeze, observed, Let's see; this is June, isn't it? Well, I should say Cyril ought to get in before the snow flies if he hurries.''
 Pro At EnglewOOd
 Walker has been holding a somewhat modest post as club professional at Englewood, N. J., but it would be as stunning something to say that he is still the Englewood pro. Professional golfers, upon winning the national open championship, usually swing out into space as exhibition players and the they have collected the last farthing of gate receipts and prizes in the year. around program of shows and tOurna- ments.
 His wife was among the crowd of about 5000 people who stampeded the eighteenth green as he came charging down the last fairway at the sensa. tional pace of a senile snail with the championship in his clutch and nothing better than an eight for par-five hole to tie Jones'.
 Studies Deliberately
 As he studied the lie of his ball and the slope of the green. the circle be- gan to close in on Walker. Leo Die gel, who was golf instructor to the late Warren G. Harding in Washington had been pace-making for Walker all afternoon under instructions to bring him in before September if he had tC charter a hack. Diegel had been dub bling one thing and another for the last nine holes and had lost ali interest ir his own score. He took several sloppy slaps at his ball on the green to drOE it and turned the play over to Walker
 Well, you brought something home with you, Leo," the official scorer re marked.
 If he holes out I've brought home the national open champion" Diege replied, and returned to watch Walk CTS putt. Walker had reached the green in three. He had to drill his way through the spectators to reach his ball. He squinted and surveyed. Then he waggled his butter gently, sending the ball rolling straight for the well 1t was slightly short, however, and he came up in a burst of speed, took q casual glance at the situation and urged 1t down for a par five and the championship as the living circle closed in to touch thie hem of his garment and shake hands with the new hero in person.
 Mrs. Walker Presented
 Mrs. Walker was carried forward by the rush.
 This moment meant quite a little tC the Walkers, for the championship usually paws anywhere from $25. .OOt to $50,O00 to the professional who wins it.