The sun., 1916-09-07
JONES', YOUNG GOLF
STAR, ELIMINATES
DYER AT MERTON
Little Bobby Will Meet Gard-
nor in Third Round Of Title
Tourney To-day.
ANDERSON. GUILFORD AND
EVANS AMONG vICTORS

PHILADELPHIA. Pa. Sept. 6.-Lituc
posby Jones will meet big Bob Gardner
1.-THE third round Of the national
amateur golf championship tomorrow.
Tha, tells the story OF two OF the three
w matches in the second round played
on the links Of the Merton Cricket Club
today, and holds forth the promise OF a
royal battle on the morrow between tho
defending champion. who twice has won
The crown. and the youngest golfer who
ever threatened tho supremacy Of the
GIANTS OF the links.
Max Marston and Frank Dyer were
the pair OF golfers who served as step
ring stones for the W Bobs.
In the third big match to-day oswald
Kirkby, metropolitan and New Jersey
Champion and one Of those most favored
fr the title. passed out of the race,
Gardiner White OF Flushing beating him
IN a match that went TO the home green.
That Is. White went TO the home green,
but Kirkby sent his ball flying down the
-osd TO a snug perch on a ledge which Is
part Of the clubhouse portico.
Il stopped a couple of feet above the
ground on the narrow shelf directly be-
hind a plant In a wooden tub. Howard
?. whitney. secretary of the United
Sa,es Golf Association, said that the
ub could be moved. but Kirkby who
VAS 1 down and saw no chance OF
making a respectable shot even IL the
rlsnt was removed, picked up his ball
and walked back to the green to con-
s~ratulate White.
Eight Golfers Remain.
Down 10 the last eight, the champion
slip field now lines UP AS follows. the
survivors, being named In the order in
which they are bracketed Rober, a.
Gardner, finsdale Robert T. Jones,
IT,, Atlanta; Jesse Guilsord. Woodland.
AID Gardiner w. White. Flushing. In
ne upper half. and John c.. Anderson,
Siwanoy Charles Evans, Jr.. Edge
water p. Clarke Corkran. Baltimore,
and Cameron b. Buxton. Huntington
Valley.
That lineup shows that at east three
o. the four matches tomorrow will be
200 ones. The Gardner-Joncs struggle
Of coarse will carry the big gallery, but
he Guilford-Whitc and Andcrson-Evans
meetings also promise fine golf and hard
'ght!ng for the mastery. II looks. how
ee' ~ FNhN'oh tovHrnC aNd hNvtov
I'll have TO forego the pleasure OF hav-
nc A gallery at their heels.
When play began this morning under
douded skies. with a threat OF rain that
was made good in rather faint hearted
''snion later In the day. the match be-
'Seen Gardner and Marston WAS the
one that everybody wanted To sec. BE-
'o'e the day was over. however, little
bohhy Jones and Frank Dyer had cap
'!re1 the crowd. and the biggest throng
" the tourney thus far followed the
ro'inss'er ~ he gained his second VIC
'ory N the struggle for the big title.
When he won yesterday from Eben
Ryers, little Bob gained a victory that
proved little or nothing. for he won not
oSause Of his own good work but be-
Drse of the mistakes made by his
opponent. Byers practically gave the
iatch away and IT was notable only
cause so young a hoy had beaten a
former national champion.
Little bob Wins on Merits.
u was Il different story to-day, for
Nt.c Bob wou on his own merits. won
'y playing the hest golf seen since the
hampionship began. on the inward nine
MY morning. and following II up with
q splendid round this afternoon which
proved him a golfer through and
trough. lie came home IN "a with a s
~ the eighteenth hole this morning, and
even IN" i was not his fault, for he
"aNed Overs ball by mistake, and by
50 long traded a fairly good lie for an
almost impossible one. AS the home
cole - a comparatively easy 4. the
,'Gngster might have come back in S2
'il Il not heeu { the misunderstanding
ABOUT the ownership of tho balls.
IN view Of what happened later the
sorry Of the early rart of the Jones'
oyer match reads like "a fairy tale. The
you gster began as though he hardly
Ahc" how to play. and in some manner
ma -ed to throw away five Of the first
IN NOES. on most of which he had
."aAces - win. Three puts on tho first
green put him ! down. Il ball out of
bounds on the second after Dyer had
Ir'Ven into II brook was mainly RESPONSE
We Tor the loss of the second. and on the
n''n ana sixth the three putt habit again
oci' hin Dyer in the meantime was
stNlns himself 10y splendid puts and chip
'Io's. ana 4 looked AS though the match
would be ht'le more than a procession.
The Turn Of the Tide.
N" FOURTH was the only ono OF the first
eN Mat Jones succeeded In halving, and
w n" drove of tho seventh tee he didn't
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