The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-09-08
Jones Eliminates McPhaiI, But
Young New Orleans Golfer
Falls Before ProWess of
Veteran Chick Evans

Brookline, Mass, September T.
Hopes of the south that the next ma
tional amateur golf champion will
be r. t. ('Bobby") Jones were ad-
vanced today in the third round OF
play in the national championship,
when he defeated w. S. McPhaii OF
the Norfolk club 5-3.Y Frank God
chaux of New Orleans met defeat by
Chick Evans and 3. Jones, for the
third time, had his hands full to
emerge victorious, for in McPhail for
80 holes he had one who putted
miraculously and drove for tremen-
dous distances.
Catching Jones In an off-morning
session as far as his putting was
considered, MePhail seemed in dan
gerous way several times to push
Jones out of the championship. The
golf of the southerner up to the
greens was of his usual steady vari-
ETY. but, like others in the tourney
To-Day, the magical touch was MISC
ing. That it returned at the
right moment Is attributable the
Jones triumph. For Is holes Jones
found himself in the same position
as the two days of play previous.
Ihat was an all-even basis. He took
the lead at the FIRST hole in the
afternoon and never trailed again
though McPhail made DESPERATE
! stand several times to assume the
lead. At the third Jones found
trouble In a trap and lost the hole,
and from the woods at the fourth
played a wonder shot 10 feet from
the cup.
- Match Is Squared
II was good for only a half, how
ever. McPhail, trapped on the fifth
and lost the hole, but with a birdie
three due to placing his mashie
snoe three feet from the pin, squared
the match on the sixth.
Two wins in row followed on
the short seventh, when McPnail
failed to locate the green. and the
eighth, where Jones sank a 15-foot-
er Tor birdie three. Failure to
DRIP dead from the edge of the
ninth was costly for Jones, for me-
Phall, equally distant from the cup,
left himself with but two-foot
putt for win. He was but one
down at this point
The tenth was halved, both mar
rowly missing brides on the long
eleventh, McPhaiI obliged with
three puts after getting home in
two while Jones caught the. rough
with a sliced brassie shot. Then
came the turning point. A putt of
ten feet for a deuce by Jones on
the twelfth seemed to break Nc
Phaiis heart. From 40 feety away
he narrowly missed the same figure.
From that point he did not hit
another shot as it should be hit. He
failed to hole out on the thirteenth
and fourteenth, being in the woods
on one hole and requiring four to
reach the green's edge and in an
unplayable lie in the forest on the
next. Jones shots were as straight
as a trolley wire, meanwhile. He
was four up gong to the fifteenth,
placed his second one nicely and Nc
Phail looking up on his second shot
found trap. His play out was on
the green Is feet from the pin.
Though he dropped the putt 1t was
not a winning one for Jones ahd an
easy four for half and the match.
Jones was II in the morning round
to McPhail's rs, out in 3S in the aft
ernoon to his opponents SO and
even fours for the remainder of
play.
Evans-Godchaux Battle
Frank Godchaux and Chick Evans
had quite battle In the afternoon
of Is holes, Godchaux carried the
Chicago star along to the fifteenth
green or thirty third hole or the
match. Evans travelled at the 4s
clip for the outward nine in the
afternoon against a 80 for Godchaux
and led by no less than six up at
that point. The next two inward
holes were halved all in par figures.
following which Gedchaux showed
quite bit of speed. winning the
short twelfth with a 30-foot putt for
a deuce and the thirteenth with
four, Evans taking three puts from
the edge, and was four up. 1t was
three in a row for Godchaux. as he
won the fourteenth by chipping dead
from Just off the green. Evans was
In like position on his second but
failed to duplicate. The end came
on the fifteenth WREN Godchaux was
strong with his second and in try
ing for a three necessary TO carry
the match further overran eight feet
and missed coming back.