The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-07-25

| SooSA Nety c%A WI AiOOA w iC1i
a large and enthusiastic gal
lery following closely every
move, the youngster de-
feated William Badham, the
favorite for the champion
ship Of the second annual in
vitation golf tournament Of
the Roebuck Golf and Auto
mobile club at Roebuck
Springs, in the final round
l up, in Fl holes.
| 1t was the most sensational golf
match ever witnessed in a local tour
ncy and fittngly closed the most sue
cessful tournament ever held on Bir-
mingham links
! In the semi finals in the morning as
had been predicted in The Age Her
/
p. Jones, ST., the conqueror of Reu-
ben g. Bush, up and ! to play, and
| Robert =. Jones, Jr., defeated Scott
| Probasco. up and to play, which
left finals between william Badham
and young Jones.
Championship Begins
At promptly 8 o'clock in the after
| Rnhart ID IT,. rad at
the tee and without preliminarIes Of
| any. sort the championship match start
ed. The drives of both Badham and
/ Jones were over 200 yards and In the
| center of the course. However. on the
| green Jones made a perfect stymie on
Badham which cost him the hole The
gallery applauded the work of the
youngster.
Both had excellent drives in the sec
| ond hole, which was halved in 5. The
third hole was also halved but In the
fourth young Jones again took the ad-
vantage when Badham drove in the
rough. Jones won the hole, to 6.
| Badham recovered in the fifth hole
| When Jones was bunkered on his drive
and the sixth hole was halved Both
players were cool and secured beauti-
full drives at the seventh hole, which
was halved. Badham made it even all
| ny winning the eighth hole on a 22O-
yard drive and some excellent putting
At the ninth hole Badham made his
| first bad drive and consequently lost
the hole to young Jones, who with an
| Iron nerve was making splendid re-
| GOV cries on all bad lies and was play
| Ing his OFF to h.
! ulated score showed that Jones had
| gone out in As and Badham in AZ
Jones was / up.
Jones Has Advantage
Coming In both players settled down
| and some excellent golf was the re-
suit The gallery applauded generous
ly at every shot and were cautioned
| several times by John NJ Inglis not
| to he too enthusiastic.
The tenth hole, despite a high and
short drive by Badham was halved.
Par golf was played at the eleventh
| hole, which was also halved and the
| players were congratulated on the
| splendid fight they We're putting up.
| The twelfth hole was also halved on
TWO perfect drives by Jones and Bad
ham, but bad putting by Badham al
lowed Jones to halve the hole
Badham drove 800 yards In the thir-
'SSHth but lOSt the nOle TO D TO Jones,
VINO. despite bad drive, made an ex-
cellent recovery and holed out on a
| 1o-foot put. Jones was now up AMI
| the favcrote to win, although the
friends of Badham never lost hope.
| Badham recovered In the fourteenth
with long drive from the tee and
some sensational putting on the green.
The fifteenth hole was halved and
| Badham made 1t even all by winning
the sixteenth hole. BY this time great
excitement pervaded the gallery but
| the players seemingly were cool and
collected and both smilingly encour-
aged each other on excellent shots.
Badham Evens Up in Eighteenth
Jones won the seventeenth hole and
dampened the hopes of the partisan gal
lery, but Badham undaunted braced and
| by two splendid drives won the difficult
eighteenth hole. while Jones was bum
kered. The players came In with the
following scores: Jones 40, Badham 40.
totals for the Is holes: Jones 81, Bad
| ham 81.
Badham started off badly at the ine-
tenth hole and 1t was feared that the
| match was lost then. but the local
player with logged courage played safe
and landed on the green in three and by
making 12-foot put haved the hole with
Jones, who missed a short put and then
1
| Badhan really lost the match in the
twentieth hole when his ball struck the
cup, but bounded away forcing the halv-
ing or the hole. 1t was costly shot as
1t lost the championship to Birmingham.
On the twenty-first hole Badham drove
of high and fell In the bunker before
the green while young Jones' impertable
a. at the start OF the match made a
clean drive to the green. Badham made
a bad recover and In two short puts Jones
holed out, winning his first tournament.
Jones Wins
The gallery rushed to the youth with
congratulations, although they were not
before Will Badham, who said:
Bob. you're the best man. and that
was the hardest fight 1 have ever
tackled"
Young Jones modestly replied:
| Mr.. Badham, you're the best driver
have ever seen. and l was very fortunate
to win."
Experts who watched the play attributed
the victory of young Jones to the fact
that he Is excellent on all shots while Bad
ham. though a splendid driver and putter
was not as good on recovering from bad
lies as his younger opponent, who placid
at all times shot with various clubs with
equal success. The cards of the cham
pionship match follows:
Total
Jones ...........5 $50 400 564 IA 5s4 500 1910,
Badham ........ 65s 55S b57 444 S44 IA AZ 81
Robert p Jones. Jr. was 10 years of aye
last March and started playing golf al
is years OF age. He entered his first
tournament last June. when he was run