New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
youthful Albanian Cracks
IN Last Round After
Being Tied at l3 Holes
Nv Crantland Rice

i .,a,v of Travis when the veteran was
:, his best, Dave Heron, of Pitts
,,,sh. overthrow Bobby Jones, the At
l,.,s prodigy, this afternoon in the
...l round of the amateur champion
,ip by the margin of s and 4.
playine the most brilliant golf yet
.sowp in the concluding canto of a
,s.mpionship, Heron supplants
srs;ck" Evans as amateur champion,
sking his place with E. NJ. Byers and
&. c. Fownes as the third Pittsburgher
:, reach such fer heights in the last
,sirteen years.
Herron played exceptionally sound
/. ,olf to-day from the tee to the green.
Int 4 was upon the velvet surface Of
.ss s green itself that Dashing Dave
ssN Young Jones, and finally drove
s.n s., back at the moment when he was
~ the verge Of smashing all records
/ w winning a championship at the age
81 seventeen.
Uho was it that said youth must
r. served? Old man Dave, an ancient
rs.sran Of twenty-five, tore this maxim
Z mn shreds. II is hard to see how
.nv one thus far along in life could
J down a youngster of seventeen, but
se older man. despite the five years
bandicau that he had to give. won out.
5000 See Final Match
Herror's exhibition on the rolling,
slsnting, undulating greens kept the
bic gallery of 5000 souls in a constant
nproar. Jones stuck gamely and grit
.Iv n his lob but he was helpless at
lat in the face Of a constant process
zion Of puts that rolled jauntily into
hs cup from 10 to 25 feet away. Using
his putter. Heron could make golf
ball do jazz, shimmy and Pitts
bureh glide when it was necessary to
ind the bottom Of the waiting and eX
uectant hole
At the end Of the morning battle
.hey were all square after a sound ex-
hlbtion most OF the way. But il the
afternoon Herrons play outclasscd the
rolf that any final round has shown
;ince Charley Macdonald won the first
title some twenty-four years ago.
Heron had romDed out over the first
nine holes in the afternoon in 80.
Jones, who had q par 81, turned down.
OF the thirteen holes played out in
the afternoon Heron stood two under
Is and under par. Two under As
over this battling Oakmont course is
super-golf under normal conditions. Ir
the ultimate round of national cham
plonship it is close to the last word,
the nonpareil of achievement along the
way OF the ancient green.
It vas the finest stretch of golf that
any nan had shown all week, and it
came at the moment when the strain
was hardest, for Heron had no chance
to ease up and drift Against this swift
and smashing pace Jones hung grimly
on until the cave-in came at the twelfth
hole. 1t was at this point that the
match took its first final and decisive
, turn.
In the morning round Jones had been
down at the twelfth, where he turned
and squared the match Coming to
this same hole in the afterno oon he was
again down when Heron sliced to the
rough and found q guarding trap on
bis second shot. Jones, with a fine
straight drive down the course, had an
open shot to the green and a wonderful
opportunity to cut away a hole and re-
duce the lead
Shout Unnerves Albanian
1t was here that the most unfortu-
hate incident of the tournament took
place. Just as the young Georgian
reached the top Of his swing for full
efassle shot one of the megaphone
guardians in charge Of the crowd bel
lowed out "fore!" The result was in
evltable and disastrous. Jones jumped,
looked up and drove his ball into
bunker only twenty yards beyond,
where, after playing four shots from d
aeel print, he finally licked up and con-
eeded the hole to his opponent, whose
second shot still lay in trap, 200 yards
from the green.
SO in place of an easy chance to
win this hole back and thereby stand
DOWN, Jones was down with only
s4 noles to go through the extreme
sssseiessness # one man, who, through
als failure to guard against any such
~ mistake, broke up the match then and
'aeie, rendering the conclusion as sure
ana certain as death itself.
one man with a megaphone can do
more damage than the chatter of ten
thousand, especially when his sono~
!ous call comes out in the midst of a
.sathly Stiffness, as the contender is
swing.
With this wide margin to work on, it
sS saS merely matter of two or three
au.es. au Jones's final chance had faded
tsus with the setting sun. He would
nave NAV, drawn no chance in any event
SSa!ess Heron had weakened, and the
Princeton star had shown no such ten
llsIcy. HIS one slip Of any moment
lad been at the fatal 18th, where he
s!ew the unusual experience of Win
..ag hole after playing two bad
ssaols' with his second still left in g
''oSning pit.
First Tourney in 1915
me new champion entered his first
taampionship at Detroit in 1916 when
~ ~ was dropped by Nelson Whitney in
~ ms nrst round. He failed to qualify
=. - Nerlon year later. But the ways
A. soif are beyond all knowing, for to-
is ne is the amateur champion of
Mueflca, and from Mondays start on
.ss .Ss.ough the final round he has played
ssS, sS pest golf shown by the all-star
rsra, ra' HERON tied for the low medal
,na" .aa IN Mondays qualifying start and
d,s"n d,v mat S6-hcle journey he has
H. Ss~n but one round over so. Since
On T IT'S match against Ham Gardner
AHA ii tuesday, he has found no opponent
rrss ss 70 carry him beyond the 14th
io,r IN the afternoon. His march
t,,"aro has been q series of easy
Bohlupns, and even the fine golf which
sc,.Sy Jones played to-day was not suf-
Jne Joa 10 hold him back
hoIs.a played nine of the first ten
form IN par this afternoon, per-
shin shiance s1 OF rare merit in champion
ordI;, Mnai. He was playing golf that
shsaaaarily would have left him we'll
10 ssu, soa, yet in spite of this exhibition
in,' ''ahd himself 2 down, a discourag-
has ss'luatlon for an older entry who
yes,. laced the ways of fate for many