New Britain herald., 1925-09-04
Bobby Is Four Up Over
 Von Elm While Eel low Townsman Leads By But One-Former Makes a T.
ATLANTA SCHOOLBOY
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oakmont, Pa, Sept. 4 R-Bobby Jones, the champion. was four un on George Von Elm of Los Angeles at the end of the morning round in thelr semi-final match of the ns. tlonal amateur golf championship teddy. Watts Gum of Atlanta was one up on Dick Jones of White Plains, N. Y.
 Bobby Jones shot a T, one un. der par, to gain his long lead over the man who last year, in the tour nament at Merion, met him in the final round. Brides were frequent and Won Elm had an eagle three at the ninth by means of marvellous pitch which dropped dead about two feet from the pin.
 Young Gum, who disposed of Jess Sweetser yesterday, experienced a lot of trouble in gaining the advan- tage over Dick Jones. The lead seesawed. Gums inability to find himself on the greens causing him to have only the one-hole margin at the home hole.
 At the 18th Dick Jone, who reached the green in two, made the most spectacular shot of the round. He sank a 30-foot putt for a birdie three.
 The sun was breaking through an early fog as Bobby Jones and yon Elm started. with Jones, first to drive, sending long shot down tbe center. Bobbys second shot just missed an eagle, Won Elm conceding the birdie four when his putt for a five failed.
 Jones one up.
 Jones took lead of two up with a birdie three at the second. his pitch dropping four feet from the cup Von Elm had par four.
 Jones' putt from off the edge of the green on the third stopped six inches from the hole and they hajy. ed in fours. | Non Elm was trapped badly to the right on the fourth and barely escaped to the fairway. He sliced ms brassie. while Jones covered the sSb yards in two, resting on the edge or the green. Won Ems fourth crossed the green to a trap and he conceded his opponent a birdie four. Bobby was three up.
 They halved the sixth in five when both missed butts of less than six feet.
 The champion added another at the sixth with three by a perfect pitch from trap to the right while Von Elm, buried deeply in the sand on his tee shot, niblicked across the green twice and picked up. Jones was four up.
 Won Elm recovered nicely from a hook to the rough on the seventh but missed his second putt of six feet. Jones did the same, however. and 1t was halve in five.
 Both were on at the eighth from the tee and another halve in par three was the result. von Elm was within six inches of dropping his sec- ond.
 Fon Elm gained back hole with an eagle three, his spoon dropping the ball three feet from the pin, by far the best shot of the nine. Bobby had a birdie four. with two butts on the green. Their cards:
 Jones Out-434 45s 4sS-SS Von Elm Out--644 756 5S3-4s
 Jones was just short with his sec ond on the tenth while Von Elm barely reached. Bobby missed a six foot putt which laid his opponent a dead stymie and then halved in five. It was a bad break for Von Elm. Jones' second on the eleventh went through the crowd behind the green and he came out we'll but lost the hole when Won Elm dropped a twentyfoot putt for birdie three. Jones was two up.
 Non Elm was bunkered to the left from the twelfth tee and had to chip to the fairway while Jones' brassie second was 20 yards short of the green. Von Elm reached with hts fourth, but the hole went to Jones with birdie four. his chip stop ping foot from the cup.
 Von Elm sank S5-foot putt for a birdie two to win the 18th while Jones was 20 feet from the cup when he exploded from a trap on his second. Won Elm again was two down,
 The Californian hooked to the traps on the fourteenth while Jones was far to the left but reached with his mashie. Two puts gave Jones the hole with par four and he was three rp.
 Jones gained 8 lead of four by holing 2o-foot putt on the fifteenth for a birdie three. von Films sec- ond was to the right of the green and he clipped dead to the pin but too late.
 Jones was home with an Iron on the short sixteenth. Won Elm was 2o yards from the green. The Cali fornian's chip rolled of and he was ten feet from the pin and Jones' putt from s5 feet away stymied him. He attempted to chip over and got in front of Jones' ball to halve in -four,
 Jones' tee shot on the 1Tth was in a bad lie when he hooked over the lgallery to the left He lofted to ths ledge of the reen fifty feet from the lpin. while Won Films second was go feet from the cup. Each took two puts to halve the hole in four.
 The home hole was halve6 In par four by perfect golf. leaving lone,