The Washington times., 1925-09-04

tAen went OUT ana cut the OnLOr-
tlnate Jess into quarters. Gum is
that kind on the links To show
that his act was prems ditated and
had malice aforethought in it. con-
slider his medal score, which was
nothing else than two under par
for twenty-seven holes. The new
est recruit from Georgia establish.
ed q record for match play on Oak
mont that will stand for years.
SWeetser capsized by the close mar
gin of 10 and 8 to go.
Some one must have told Watts
that Jess papa was the author of
Marching Through Georgia.
Gum was very business-like. He
had a man to attend to and he
let nothing stand in the way of
the current business. Sweetser, re-
hably accounted a staunch match
player, looked like the veries OF
tyros against Gum. He simply
looked misplaced.
Chris DmpEy, canny observer
Of the links, thinks that right
now Watts would give his brother
Georgian all Of an afternoons
labor. Dunphy played around
with Gum and Bobby In q prac-a
hce round before the tournament
and be came into the clubhouse
with his eyes IS big rs saucers.
Nothing but . find on the links
could ever perturb the even tenn
pered Chris so much.
watts Is a student at the insti-
tuition known as Georgia Tech. He
is twenty years old, of slight and
rather Insignificant built, and this
for the girls, he has brown hair,
and the lovliest of amber eyes. His
card for the twenty-seyen holes
against Sweeter was:
Out par 5445 "a 8 $40
Gum $40 4 8 4 8 $50
In par. 44534 4 A35-72
Gum -. 5 4 8 6 3 3 4 3 A37-76
Gum and Dickey Jones, the ,elirn-
inator of Roland Mackenzie, teed
off today at $40 O'Clock with the
Bobby Jones and George Won
Eim, starting ten minutes later.
drew a large gallery also. Vonelms'
thr!iiing engagement with the Dos
ton seige gum Jesse Guilford, has
made him almost an equal wi.a
Jones in the eyes Of the gallery.
Won Elm, who had the doubtful
pleasure last year of playing RU-
lind Mackenzie in the first round.
was forced to dig down in his oil
sand bag to take the fight out of
the hard-hitting Guilford. Vonelm
wss one up at. the first nine holes,
and one down at the second nine.
He was unable TO reduce Guilford's
margin in the third nine, but he
threw caution to the winds in the
last nine and ended the match on
tie seventeenth green when he got
an easy three To halve the hole
with Guilford and leave him two
up and one to go.
Dick Jones and Lauren Epson,
elae University of California bean
pole, had nice little argument
all their own. They were all
square at the ninth. Jones was
one up at the eighteenth, and he
kept that barrier for the re-
Inainder Of the trip. The fact Of
the matter is, he increased the
lead to two holes. and when Up
oOn stumbled over a chance to
take a hole on the seventeenth
Jones obliged and the shouts
burst forth.
9CIarence Wolf was an underdog
skainst the unapproachable Bobby
Jpnes. Clarence knew that. and il
didn't seem TO worry him a great
deal. No one heard him admit de-
faa: until the last hole was played.
Wolfe qualified for the tournament.
ID a play off for last place. He has
no reason. to wish for a trip to the
ESeeiy Institute.
Matters causing much perturba-
tton are afoot The "if' chaps ara
working overtime What liz both
-Jones boys goes into the finals.
What If both Georgia boys go into
the finals. What "if'' both Georgia
boys fail Of their mark. Will not
that be sufficient grounds unto the
South for an uprising.
The effete East was knocked into
the well known and popularity hated
cooked hat when Jesse Guilford,
the last of the Mohicans, was led
10 slaughter. The East has nary
man left to face the invaders
from the South, from California
and from New York state.
Time was when the East fought
out these amateur golf champion
Roland Mackenzie seems to be
the only hope of the East in
coming years. Certainly he is
the only yOungster who has any
chance of beating Bobby Jones,
Watts Gum, or any Of the others
within the next five years.
Gum, according to Chris Dun
ply, has only been playing around
with the former Scotch game for
five years or so. His drives are
fully as long as Jones' Chris
claims, and he. has the delicate
touch with his long irons that
Bobby has.
Around the green's. where many
matches are won and lost. Gum