New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-07
southern Youth Plays Re-
markable Game in Ma
tional Title Tourney.
GARDNER WHITE
WINS OVER KIRKBY
Evans and Gardner Also
curyivors-Latter Meets
Jones To-day.
D. CRANTLAND RICE.

By GRANTLAND RICE.
v.ron Golf Club. Haverford, PENN
:. s-Considering the personal
.s.,ion and al other intimate details
.svnky. chubby broth Of lad just
'..-..en years old, with a pink round
-. and BIG. blue eyes, gave the
..,,.st exhibition Of golf to-day that
- have ever seen.
~. name is Bobby Jones, IT, Of
,I.-,s Ga. and whatsoever he may
gains. Robert A. Gardner. amateur
..-,ion. or Thursday, MS name Is
80 written on the sporting scroll
ere only the select, those who com
=. ,urpassing skill with lion hearted
.--sre have any right TO belong.
v,r,r Jones did something more
-, merely beat F. ". Dyer, the
v,.,,lsir star. This in itself was
.~,ble achievement, but he came from
...,,s when he was 5 down at the
.,.s hole and he came from behind
-. Over a. the top Of his game,
.sving the finest sort Of golf upon
own hook and fighting for every
reb Of Merton sward.
Beyond all this, the Georgia kid took
,rav nine-tenths Of the big gallery
,-or Evans and Gardner, open and
,ns-eur champions, and with the larg-
=. gathering Of the week following
ne match gave an exhibition Of golf
"a, sstounded every watcher and that
fought salvos Of applause upon shot
Lter shot.
Plays Best Golf of Week.
Iones won from Dyer By the margin
90 and .. and 70 turn this trick he
,-sved the last thirty holes IN under
4, By all odds the best golf Of the
..s-pionship week HIS play to-day
would more than likely have won any
-s,ch that has been played so far, and
ne carries ths same game 20 the field
,-sinst Bob Gardner, the amateur
.snpion will need a., the best that
a.s and destiny have in store 10 sur
I'VE the ordeal.
W.s.essay's series Of rounds
l trough, but one upset, beyond the
l Io.es-Dver contest. Bob Gardner
/ ,Iminsted Max Msrston by the safe
-s-rin OF I and o.. but Oswald kirkby,
sfter playing fire golf all day, az last
.sl before tie brillian. work OF Gard
-sr Waite. VINO travelled AZ such rare
s-esa from morning 20 sunset that
even ne frst class play Of the Metro
Yo:ar champion could not avail.
White bea, Kirkby up after they
had reached the thirty-fourth tee upon
even terms. Missed puts az the thirty
second and .hirry-fourth holes cost the
E-g.svoot player his chance 70 face
issss Guiltord in the round before the
3 ..ri-insi clash. But as White re
/ AIMED - n the morning and u IN
I re afternoon. Kirkby's defeat should
I X charged against the high class work
Il O his opponent, who made very few
-siskes.
1 Ch!sk Evans and JOAN G. Anderson,
40 meet Thursday, had no great
rsssle against ". ?. Smith and Rob-
- I. Hunter, while Gu.lford, Corkrsn
a.. Buxton came safely through.
But after al, the Big human interest
ri,eh o. the day was between young
.'-ss and Frank Dyer. Dyer had beat
Blossom, and 5, the day before,
I'd re was playing such sound got
"a; no one thought the fourteen-year-
]. &c mad even an outside chance, de-
5;s his victory over 10 Byers or
.ssasy
Il Jones Makes Bad Start.
This prediction looked 20 be based
scr tue form when young Jones got
Esy badly. lost the first three holes
a.. stood : down a. the sixth. HIS
ass boxed worse than hopeless here,
y Dyer was moving along nicely and
osgsl % look as Z the match would
sEch runaway affair that the kid
W.: Be practically overwhelmed By
@r.r;h hole.
II az young Jones had the blessed
Il .'11ze o. youth that knows no nerves.
Il Wa . this were bulldog courage and
II
.isiocn he caught bis balance again,
"a rev grip upon MS game and be-
y Dyer knew exactly what had hap
--so MS opponent mad won back four
-1sSt.Te holes.
!,n lstt Bobby 2 down a. the ninth
down a. the tenth. quite a diff
&si matter from beng down az the
- But Dyer matched the eleventh
- tns 9 ant moved back 20 2 up.
slly lasted but breath. for Jones
Hec ne next three holes ~ par fg-
ard non the 350-yarc fifteenth
me 3. He was now / down,
-ng 70 the d.Scult sixteenth
as role ls 4bZ yards IN length, and
second Inot must be played across
s~fIy larry recEng with disaster.
N p-syec first and MS shot caught
.'s Taxing an iron from 100
"a away, the I'D ripped into the
th full force, and when the
g iiga carry had finally ended the
,sa settled upon the green exact
IRE fsst 20 the right % the cup,
Enot a. |srdon ever played.
~! tghtlng gamsly on. made
f.'4l recovery. dropping his ball
Zap - within four feet % the
e@h misled their puts. 20 Jones
At squared ne match.
A~kss Two on Seventeenth.
- 'sTentssnth is 2l0 yards across
"'s. The youngster slapped
'i - within zen feet Of the cup
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