Evening star., 1916-09-07
JONES MEETS CHAMPION
Marvellous Boy Golfer From South
Plays Gardner in National
Amateur Tourney.

PHILADELPHIA. September 7.-At
the end of the first half of today's
match play for the amateur golf title,
Robert T. Jones. fifteen years old. of
Atlanta, led Robert A. Gardner, ma
tional champion, by one hole. Jones
started off with a rush, getting the first
two holes in par. Then he seemed to
strike a bit of hard luck. and found
traps and pits. The southern boy got
off a poor drive from the sixteenth tee,
followed it topping his second. and al
though he was on the green in 4 and
ran down a long putt for a s, Gardner
played the hole perfectly. and was
down In 4, leaving Jones 1 up at the
end of the first half.
Jesse Guilford. Boston. led Gardner
White of Flushing by up. Guilford
played superb golf, 81 out and and the
same in for "A.
Chick Evans. jr. the open champion.
had a commanding lead OF up at the
end of the first eighteen holes, with
John Anderson. Evans took 10 to 81
medal for Anderson.
After being 5 down in the first six
holes to Frank Dyer of Montclair.
young Bob Jones of Atlanta, the cham
pion of Georgia, came through with
ing round at the Merton Cricket Club of
Philadelphia and was all square at the
turn To come in in "a. the best mark
of the tourney to date, the youngster
played remarkable iron shots on the
sixteenth and seventeenth holes to win
both. On the eighteenth hole Jones
had a 4 for a 32 on the 9. but played
Dyer's ball by mistake and took 6.
In the afternoon the gallery OF at least
1000 persons, seeing that a great bat
a
Gardner-Marston match to the contest
between Dyer and Jones. And the bat
tie was well worth watching. Driving
$50 yards, the youth from the sunny
south captured the first hole, halved the
next three and won the eighth. Jones
lost the tenth when he hooked his
drive to bunker, but won the eleventh.
making him up once more. Jones took
three puts on the short thirteenth, al
lowing the man from Montclair to get a
half, and they divided the fourteenth in
par 4. The break came at the next hole.
where Jones drove 270 yards. and the
other man was exactly the same dis
tance; in fact, to play his ball Dyer had
to lift the other. Dyer pitched up well.
but the boy sank fine putt for a 8.
putting him 2 up, with to play. He
poked out a long drive. played fine
second over the quarry and won the
match when Dyer failed to carry the
hazard with his iron. Jones had on
the final hole for 73. He undoubted-
ly has established his name in the hall
of golfing fame, and no matter what he
does against the champion. Gardner, to-
day. this championship always will be
as the one in which a boy
trimmed the best of the veterans.
Gardner Is Never Headed.
Gardner got the jump on Marston by
winning. the first hole. and was never
headed At the end of the morning
round he was FIVE holes to the good.
Driving a phenomenally long ball and
putting like a clock. the amateur cham
pion won the first two holes of the
afternoon round. and was seven up.
Marston rallied and brought the lead
iown to 3 up at the turn. But
Gardner put a stop to the attempted
ally and won by 4-3. Oswald Kirkby
md Gardiner White had one of the
most stirring battles of the day. White
was / up in the morning. having got
en- around in 78 to Kirkby's Is. White
won the second hole in the afternoon.
,ut the metropolitan champion. by -,
Inc display Of golf, won three holes.
Ind was / up at the turn.