The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-16
YOUNG SOUTHERNER NOSES
 OUT WIN OVER CRUIKSHANK DIV THE EIGHTEENTH HOLE
bby Jones Finally Wins tie He So Long Sought In hrllling Battle With Little ;otch Master

WOOD, N. Y. July 15.-(By Asso-
 Press .)-Robert T. ("Bobby'D
 Jr. sun-browned boy from
 became the open golf cham
 America today, defeating
 Allen Cruikshank, Scotch pro-
 al of the ShackamaXon
 y club, Westfield, N. J.. by
 strokes in the play off of tie
 existed yesterday a | the end of
 regular 12-hole championship
 i Jones took 76 and Cruik -s.i4nk IS.
 Jones. all amateur of Atlanta. Ga came into the title he had long souSht on the eighteenth and very Vast hole. ending one of the most dramatic contests in the quarter of a\ century of title history. In the long winning hHttle over green, rough, tee, fairway and trap, the Georgian was pitted against golf master great fighter, and d sports man. And Robert Allen Cruikshank was glorious loser.
 Georgian And Scot Tied.
 Both the Georgian and the Scot. at the end of the rounds yesterday Ill which 77 golfers competed, were tiec with 296 strokes. That tie came into being the thirty sixth green. the eighteenth of today's play-otf Jones. with the championship ready for a journey south, had fallen into there Cruikshank, almost hopelessly defsated. had made birdie three to square the stroke count.
 Thrilling enough as far IS the seventeenth hole. where the Scot. with a remarkable recovery from trap and fourfoot putt, squared the match, the playoff developed epochal elements on the last hole. Cruikshank's $ eighteenth tee shot half topped, landed behind clump of trees, and to the left of the fair way. Jones, 100 yards longer with his drive, lay in rough, parched grass. six feet to the right of the fairway Cruikshank played safely, pitching 25 yards short of the brook guarding the grssR 0 O O
 Jones selected his iron. heavy one; took a mighty swing. The ball hit the green for the cup, ran slight ly to the left and rolled four feet away. The southern boy needed % hole his putt for birdie, and two butts would put him down in four, almost certainly enough to win. But Cruikshank had a chance to tie, slim as it was. If he could pitch to the pin and hole his putt. Jones would need the birdie to win.
 The Scot drew a long breath, he studied almost every inch of the ground up to the cup, smiled, set himself and shot. His ball hit the green but rolled into a shallow trap to Nthe left He had to hole from there, TOT De certain of defeat. Again he studied the terrain, again he : smiled and shot. The ball over-ran the cup 15 feet. There wasn't a ghost of chance left, but he putted and missed.
 Then he walked to Jones to con gratulate him. signifying that he had conceded defeat.
 ' But Jones elected to putt it out, The .Atlantan played safe. rolling his 2fall to the edge of the cup and sinking it in four
 over 1000 Spectators.
 There were more than 1000 spec tators around the green to cheer the boy from Georgia IS he realized his gr4at ambition and captured the pre- n.Ikr crown of Amarican golfdom, wdn last year by Gene Sarazen of E1ar Cliff. who finished sixteenth ydsterday. Cruik shank afterward. My, what a golfer that boy is. He's the greatest cr ampiCn of them all. He is Harry Wirdon at his best or better than ] at. /To be defeated by him is orious enough.
 Jones couldn't say anything. He igged the Scot and Wrung his hand Id nluttered something. It sounded Ike: "(:aisae o.d boy