Word: mehlhorn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field. Leo Diegel, until he took a six on the short sixteenth, had seemed a sure winner. Hagen -"Third Round" Hagen-had thundered around, burning up the course, 4, 4, 3, 2, 4, with four bad holes to spoil his chances at the end. "Wild Bill" Mehlhorn, he of the huge feet and iron wrist, had undone his hope only by an overbold attempt to gobble a long putt on the last green. The 294 was still best; Turnesa waited...
...faced dogmatists had apparently forgotten that the holder of the title in dispute was one William Mehlhorn of Chicago. It is true that he stood well down the list with a 74, but he has a champion's nerves. He is at his best under pressure. He began to play with the desperate efficiency of a man defending his pride. In the last round he went out in the increditable score of 32, came in with a 34 to tie the course record, But the best his gallant effort could get him was second place. His title had been...
...stroked his ball 291 times in the four orthodox rounds of the national open championship played at Worcester, Mass.; had been congratulated on a gallant tie for first place by the men they had beaten-sleek Walter Hagen, grinning Gene Sarazen, slangy Leo Diegel, trim Johnny Farrell, husky Willie Mehlhorn, tired, chagrined, heartsick Cyril Walker, the deposed champion, to whom the title had brought little joy in the year he had held it. Now they were playing an extra 18 holes to decide it-Thin Legs Willie Macfarlane, Oak Ridge professional (Tuckahoe, N. Y.), and Fat Legs Robert T. Jones...
...Extra rounds 75 72) *Jones 77 70 70 74-291 (Extra rounds 75 73) Farrell 71 74 69 78-292 *Ouimet 70 73 73 76-292 Sarazan 72 72 75 74-293 Diegel 73 68 77 78-296 Smith 73 79 72 73-299 Mehlhorn 78 72 75 76-301 Gallett 73 70 84 77-304 Hutchinson 78 78 79 71-306 Barnes 75 76 71 85-307 Kirkwood 81 73 82 79-315 Walker...
...Chicago, heavy-shouldered professional William Mehlhorn, of St. Louis, spanked his ball around the Calumet Country Club course four times, totted up his cards at 293. When it was known that this figure was eight strokes lower than the totting of any other of the 208 players present, Mehlhorn was declared Western open champion. Scores: Al Watrous (Grand Rapids), 301; "Chick" Evans (Chicago amateur), 302; Eddie Held (St. Louis amateur...