The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25
JONES DEFEATS
 . CLARKE CORKAN
Champions And Former Champions Win In
 Golf Tourney

..ARDMORE, Pa., Sept. 24.-Ex- perience counted in the second round of the national amateur golf tourna- ment today. The eight survivors com prise a former open champion, the present amateur champion, the inter- collegiate champion, two former anna teur champions, one of whom once held the open title; two former trans Mississippi champions and a former New York state champion.
 In the feature match which attracted gallery of hundreds, Bobby Jones of Atlanta, former open champion, de- feated D. Clarke Corkan of Philadel- phia, winner of the qualifying medal in the record-breaking figures of 87-76 -7-142, by and 2. A spurt by Cork an, when he was five down with five holes to play, carried the match to the thirty-fourth green. ,S
 Other Results
 Rudy Knepper, Chicago, who won the trans-Mississippi title when he was a student at Princeton and lived in Sioux City, eliminated Ellsworth Augustus of Cleveland, 4 and 2. Francis Ouimet of Boston, former open and amateur champion, defeated Eddie Held of St. Louis, and 3. ,- NDexter Cummings of Chicago, inter- collegiate champion, eliminated the last foreign survivor in the tournament, w, l.. Hope, of the British Walker cup team, z and 6.
 Max R. Marston of Philadelphia, titlist, defeated bis fellow townsman, J. Wood -Platt, 2 and 5.
 George von Elm, former trans-Missis- sippi champion, defeated Lawson M. Watts of St. Louis, 6 and A., E. H. Driggs, Jr., of New York, former state title-holder, eliminated O. H. Paul, also of the Metropolitan dis trict, 6 and 4.
 Thursdays Matches Tomorrow's matches will be:
 Jones vs. Knepper Ouimet vs. Gull ford; Cummings vs. Marston; Von Elm ys. Driggs.
 : Bobby Jones was out-driven by Corkan, but superiority with irons and putting won the match for him. Corkan led after the first hole, where Jones topped his drive, but Jones immediate ly squared the match at the second. Thereafter Jones was never behind, he was up at lunch. A par 36 for the first 9 holes of the afternoon made Jones up, an advantage he retained with six holes left to play. A squirt by Corkan involving two birdies by him and Bobby's only six of the day pro- longed the match. Jones had only one three putt green all day and on nine greens needed only one putt.
 Accuracy with iFdns and better put ting were likewise responsible for Francis Ouimet's victory over Eddie Held. Three up at the eleventh, Held then went over par on four holes in succession and Ouimet took the lead by shooting perfect golf.
 Champion In Form
 The champion Marston easily downed 'tWoodie" Platt, his ancient rival. In the afternoon Platt traded his morn ing putting weakness for cratic woods and gained nothing by it, losing the i last three holes in succession.
 Seven up on the sixteenth Marston dropped three holes in row, recovered with a birdie on the twentieth, dropped the next, and see-sawed to the turn, where Platt collected bis second success sive birdie and beeaans five down. Max putted his secondS1at of bounds for the loss of the. twenty eighth, but Woodie took three butts next, sliced over the boundary on the thirtieth and missed an eight footer for a half on the last. Marston played the morning round in 75, while Woodie took S1. At the turn in the afternoon they stood 88 and 37.
 A smal boy with loud voice checked R closing rally by Augustus in his match with Knepper. Both shot ragged golf in the morning. but Knepper was