New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-29
Louis Jacoby
Beats Jones IN
Thrilling Game
Upsets Feature Golf at Druid
tIills-Anderson and
Maxwell | ose
Bv GRtNTLAND RICE

Atlanta. Ga. March 2S.-One favorite
after another was stacked against tht
wall here TO-DAY and shot to death be-
fore sunset faded out back OF me
Druid Hills pines.
In the forenoon round John Il. An
derson fell before Victor Smith. Ioed
golfer. or the nineteenth hole. lh.S
was q trihe startling, but III the d.,
tarnoon a double upset took place WneH
T.o,is Jacoby. OF New Orleans, elm
mated Bobby Jones in brilliant match
and Tommy Prescott, the seventeen.
vear-old Atlanta golfer, beat Norman
Maxwell. 4 up and , to play.
Young Prescott. who so TAR hash
drawn his share Of notoriety, had
big dav. He is broad shouldered
powerful voungster. with hne punch
His first victim was Frank Blossom
intercollegiate champion, who iell a.
the seventeenth hole. With Blossom
removed. Young Prescott then went al
ter Norman Maxwell and made cleat
sweep Of the days work. SO Atlanta
has added another boy wonder TO mel
Youthful stars.
DAYS Feature Match
The great match OF the day, how
ever. was the one between Bobby Jones
and Louis Jaccbv in the afternoon
round. Jacoby, he man who elimlnat
ed Jerry Trave's at Houston and wor
that tournarl cnt, was not gwen mucf
of n chance in the ever elastic dope
But. with big gallery in tow, he set
tied down on his Job, and the result wa:
one of the finest matches any mar
could ever hope 20 see.
For nine holes neither played any
wonderful golf. On the fifth hole JACOB!
was in all varieties Of trouble, where
Bobby was on the edge of the green II
.. Yet the hole was halyed in %. Bu
this type of golf ended at the ninth
From that point on both cut into higr
speed and played about all the gol
there was. They halved the long tentt
in As. the 450-vard eleventh was halvet
in As. Jones playing a great iron sho
10 within twelve feet Of the pin.
Bobby squared the match on the 1875
yard thirteenth with 3. and the mex
vas halved in par Is. Nothing but a
End IS went here. The short fifteenth
was repete with thrills. Bobby stuc'
an iron within ten feet Of the pin, while
Jacoby was off 70 the right above thu
cup. He had the toughest shot IN TN
game TO play. a downhill. sidehill chlI
shot over a fast. tricky green. But tn
pitch was made properly and his bal
came to rest within two feet OF tn
cup. Bobby then went for 2. nit thu
cup and kicked out. At this point, FOL
six holes. young Jones was under IS
while mis- opponent was one below
which is championship golf over Drul,
Hills.
On the long sixteenth Bobby laid hI'
opponent stymie. and became ] III
with 10 play. 1t was here that JacobN
played Nardonesaue golf. On the 100
yard seventeenth. one o. the hardes
three holes in the country. Jones wen
fifteen feet TO TIE left. Jacoby rammeC
fine iron dead on the hole an'
squared the match with a 3. All ever
coming 10 the eighteenth.
The finish was highly sensational
Both were straight down the middle
On his brassie second Jacoby hooked
deep into the woods. $50 yards from
the green. the hole being 520 yards
Bobby slapped long iron straigh
down the middle and then pitched c
within eighteen feet OF the cup. holt
high.
Looked Easy for Jones
The match looked over. The New
Orleans entry was almost hidden II
the pine-fringed border. His ball wa:
almost directly back of young pine
He had an opening Of something les
than two feet TO shoot at The sho'
that followed was a classic. II tool
the narrow opening and came to a sud
den stop within twenty inches of the
cup. 80 yards away. This broke W
the match. as Bobby went for his 4
missed and. needed G.
To win Jacoby had needed thret
great shots and all three went true.
The cards: