Evening star., 1924-09-27

Bobby, however, has adopted a diff
ferent scheme in this championship
He is not the Jones of other years
incessantly trying for brides and
disappointed when he fails to get
them. Jones has discovered a new
and important fact in the world of
championship golf. Par thrown at
an opponent hole after hole, if con-
tinued long enough will win any
championship. And there is always
the comforting thought that there
Will some time be an occasional
birdie, for all the puts cannot keen
out.
Bobby discovered this fact against
knepper on Thursday. when Rudy
apparently somnolent under a deficit
of three holes. suddenly became
hurricane of the links and swept two
of Bobby's lead of three holes away
before the Atlanta youngster caught
himself. And still Bobby kept throw
ing par at Rudy, with the result thai
knepper broke. Jones learned a lot
from that match which he put into
use yesterday and which he is usin.
today.
Bobby Didn't need many brides to
beat Francis Ouimet yesterday. Fran
els beat himself. long way removed
from the Ouimet of other years, the
nine to d 81 by Jones, and when the
haIf-WaF match was reached was s
down with an so against 73 for Jones
That tells the story, for no man could
ever hope to catch Jones with even
half that lead Sadly off on his putin :
and frequently trapped from the tee,
Ouimet did not have chance He
lost three of the first five holes in the
afternoon and finally, with Jones 10
up and IL to go, put his second sho
in trap in front of the eighth green
to lose the hole and match
Won Elm, of the German name and
Irish fighting disposition. with the
eye of the killer and the finesse of a
Harry Vardon at his best jumped
into an early lead on Marston, the
champion, and never relnQuished it.
Marston played yesterday like a sec
ond Is man, with no fight or spirit in
| MS game and lacking the brilIia mt
| putting he showed last Fall at Floss
moor.
Won Elm. even though he took a a.
in the morning. 6 over par. was W
| on Max. In trouble constantly from
| the tee and missing putt after putt
| MarSton was around in a conced ed
SO. for he picked up on two holes.
| Non Elm. citizen. is fighting guy.
| with the CLINT of a Jack Dempsey i'm
|
ness of the champion from tee to
! hole he drove in with the sting of a
| scorpion to finish off the tottering
| Marston. Max made a good bid after
| the turn, for he won the second and
| third holes in the afternoon. after
| losing the first. But he blew a grand
chance 10 win the long fourth, where
both he and Won Elm trapped from
the tee, and they halved in s.
L,
second shot to the fifth he got a half
in and should have won the sixth
but halved. They split the seventh
| in par As, but at the eighth Marston
cut pitch too fine and dropped in a
trap short of the pin. The under
| played shot cost him the hole. He
wilted perceptibly after that and
when he pushed his iron shot to a
| terrible lie at the short ninth he was
beaten. For Won Elm, the Tiger OF
| the links was now up and to
| go. and remem bering that he had the
same hole margin against Roland
| Mackenzie, fought harder than ever
| Max slipped in an 1S-foot putt for a
| birdie at the tenth, where Won Elm
| made great recovery shot from a
| bunker.
1t was his last effort, for as in the
morning he pushed his tee shot To
/ SiN tIiSnS SitNcitii anu LHeu plICneQ
| away short.
| His third shot went over the green
and Won Elm, whose pitch struck a
stone in the brook short of the green
and ran up on the bank, won the hole
to become dormie up. Max made d
| bold bid for a 30-foot putt at the
twelfth, but the ball slipped past the
cup, and Won Elm tapped in a 2-foot
putt to depose the champion.
| Here are the cold facts about the
Jones-Von Elm tilt: Bobby played 2e
holes against Ouimet. For that
stretch he was up on Won Elm and
was up for the same route over the
+, best ball of Won Elm and Marston
| The verdict of the Won Elm Mars
| ton match makes Roland Mackenzie
look like great golfer, for Roland
carried Won Elm to the thirty-seventh
| hole
! Today's match marks Bob Jones
second appearance in the final of the
| amateur championship. for Bobby
| reached the ultimate round at Oak
mont in 1919, losing to an endless
succession of pars and brides by
Dave Heron.
| Won Elm and Willie Hunter will
leave for Washington tonight, where
| they will play tomorrow and Mon
| day at Burning Tree and Columbia
with the Mackenzies, Guy Standifer
and Donald Woodward