The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-23
JONES-HERRON
IN GOLF FINAL
Atlanta Youngster Eliminates
Fownes With Great Ease,
by 5 and 3.
PLATT BADLY BEATEN
Falls Before 0akmont Entry
by z and 6-Huskies in
Title Battle.
Ky INNS BROWN.


amateur golf crown for the good year Of
1919 will have settled down on a brow
hitherto unadorned by any such orna-
nent before the sun slips from view on
tho Oakmont Country Club links to-
morrow afternoon. The last hope for
the bevy Of former champions who en-
tered the lists a week ago was brushed
aside to-day when Robert T. Jones, Jr..
of Atlanta defeated William c. Fownes.
Jr., Of Oakmont in the semi-fnal round
by 8 up and 8 to play. At the same
time S. Davidson Heron, also of OAR
mont. was administering a beating to
J. Wood Plat OF Philadelphia to the
tune Of Z and 6.
The sure advent of a newcomer was
guaranteed by the defeat of Fownes.
The result of the other match was i'm
material in this particular respect.
Neither Heron nor Plat has ever won
before. Neither ever reached match
play before. Plat was making his first
appearance in the national tilt. The
tournament has therefore taken on an
aspect unknown In tournaments for a
decade or more.
As affairs have turned out a terrific
struggle between a pair of ambitious,
husky young men III scheduled for the
final round tomorrow. Jones, HUSKY
lad of II years. with big wrists, which
suggest that he might prove equally as
handy and efficient with sledge as with
nlblick or mashie. will encounter an
even more robust specimen in Heron,
I'll years old and Weighing over 200
pounds. They are ponderous wallpapers,
and their tussle is sure to develop some
of the most prodigious driving yet seen
In an amateur event in the country.
Neither Match Brilliant.
To-day's matches were rather ordi-
nary affairs. viewed in the light OF
brilliant golfing achievements. Not a
single one of the four mi-fnalists
played up to form displayed by all of
the quartet at other times during the
tournament 1t appeared quite evident
that five days of steady pounding and
grinding over the difficult course was
beginning to have Its effect
Especially was this notable in the
case of Fownes. the only veteran Of the
four. The former champion was labor
ing heavily throughout the course of his
play and nothing but a logged per-
sistency enabled him to prolong the
match to the thirty-third hole. Even
the responsive recuperative reserve OF
Jones was being sorely taxed.
Time and again the entry playing
the odd skidded and left a wide OPEN
comparatively easy victory had be
been able to respond with the stun
that all were known to possess, only to
see this party of the second part slog
along as unsteadily. Not once during
the entire days play by the four did
any one open up with a brilliant streak
such as marked earlier matches, in
which Ouimet, Evans. Gardner, Jones
and Heron forged to the front with
stuff that threw the galleries into a
regular bleacher frenzy.
Jones Takes the First.
Jones and Fownes were the first to
get away, and almost all of the early
arrivals fell In behind to trail them
around. BY virtue of drawing the upper
slot in the brackets Jones took the honor
and drove first. He had long ball, but
hooked slightly into high grass He
played out short and then dropped a
bit shy OF the green with his third
Fownes was alongside him In 2. Each
Clipped up within twelve feet but Jones
won the hole, when he ran down a nice
put for 5. Fownes missed his second
effort and took a g.
Fownes got even ct the next with a
par 1. under rather unusual circum-
stances. He topped his tee shot. was
sixty yards short in two. and then hit
on his third He ran down a single putt
Jones hooked to the rough. took three
to get on and had 5.
Jones again took the lead on the third
He coupled fine second with a beauti-
full drive and reached the green. Fownes
was Off the right of the green on his
second, and after chipping on took two
puts
Jones found about all the trouble DOS
aih -
hooked to the rough, was still in the
grass 10 the left on his second and
played his third into a trap guarding
the green. He took an extra stroke to
get out and scored a 7. After a drive to
the rough Fownes played out short, then
drove long brassie to the green, and
sank g..
Both Steady Down.
On the fifth OF 37l yards both played
well. Each had a good drive. slashed
his second to the green and holed out in
two puts.
Jones putted his tee shot into a bunker
on the sixth. Fownes was on the green.
Jones played his second on, but lost
to g.
On the seventh of 370 yards Jones
coupled a fine drive with a nice second
TO reach the green in two. Fownes was
trapped on his tee shot and still short
on his second. He saved a half by chip
ping well up and dropping a single putt
AS usual Jones failed to score well
on the eighth. Both drove the green.
hut after a rather bad approach putt
Jones missed his three and lost TO 3.
Both had good drives on the ninth and
were just short OF the green with their
second. Each clipped on in three and
got down in two puts Fownes had
scored a 40 for the nine holes and stood
1 up at the turn; Jones was ~.
In winning the tenth of 461 yards
with (, Jones left little room for criti-
cism. He coupled a good drive with an
equally good second. and took two puts
Fownes putted his second over into the
rough, and didn't get the green on his
third. He could do no better than a 6.
Jones Plays Par Golf.
Jones again played par golf on the
eleventh. His drive was straight up the
lane and his mashie second stopped
twelve feet from the cup. Fownes had
good distance with his drive, but Il left
him side hill lie He put his second
in a trap. and had to take s.
The twelfth OF Sol yards, mar &. saw
Fownes drive to the rough and Jones
land In trap. Both were short OF
on their second. Both were short OF
the green on their thirds but Jones
Clipped to within ten feet OF the pin.
Fownes was considerably further away.
and his NTH ran Just past the cup. With
ten foot putt to win and two to halve,