San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-06
WATTS GUM
DEFEATED,
8 AND I
Protege Of Champion Is
Unable to Stand Par
Golf Pace.

OAKMONT COUNIk1 ILOp,
OAKMONT, Pa, Sept. BOBBY
Jones maintained his absolute despot-
ism over the nobility of the links this
afternoon when he won the national
amateur golf championship for the
second successive year, dcieatlne
Watts Gum, 3 up and Z to play, III
the final round.
1t was such an occasion as cham
pionship golf meet has never before
known.
Both finalists are residents of At
lanta, Ga. They were and are
competitive brother act" friends
first and contestants afterward. They
came north in the same stateroom,
and even rode to the course Saturday
morning in the same automobile.
But. in the inevitable showdown,
only one of them could be champion
and his name was Robert Il. Jones,
Ms had been previously suspected by
ouite a few well-influenced persons.
Watts Gum merely proved TO be
fine golfer and sportsman, and the
official runncr-up for the title.
$40 NJ EMPI1 hOENOh.
This was not the empty honor it
NAV aDpcar at first blush. Not every
Young man, 20 years old, can get his
name in the record book next to n
champions the first time out in
national tournament.
Gum had served his purpose, at
that. He was the reigning sensation
| of the carly rounds, playing Al holes
in six under even tours. But it was
ordained that, Bobby Jones had to
beat him in the final round and
Gum was a worthy candidate if there
was ever one.
The margin Of his defeat would
appear to have been rather extrava-
CANT, yet this would be overlooking
the fact that Gum produced nearly
all the thrills on the first nine holes
in holding the champion all square
and was one up at the twelfth. But
Just as the knowing experts were
beginning to confide to one another
that Jones seemed due for the match
of his worthy young life, something
snapped in the transmission of what
had been a par-shaving machine, and
Gum ceased to be an active con-
tender.
NO BREAV IN JONES.
He was Just even tours to that
point. but the greatest golfer in the
world went right on being the worlds
greatest golfer and Gum had ne
adequate reply.
He simply proved that he was hui
man, doubtful point about Jonc!
insofar as his play on golf course
is concerned. He came right on homt
to a wonderful round of 36-34-7O
two strokes under par, and went Il
his lunch, four up. That, of course
was the absolute blowOff. The collie
doesn't live who can stake Robcr
II. Jones to a four-hole start ant
hope to catch him in the next ant
final IS. Gum didn't.
But he was by no means washed VI
on the business of giving the CALLER
of thousands q throb every now an
them He did this first as early a
the fourth hole at 53G yards long D.
reaching the green with midiron sec
ond and sinking 1J-foOt putt for a.
eagle three. He repeated the thru
on the same hole in the afternoon get
ting a winning birdie four with SIX
foot putt. And just a few moment
before, on the preceding hole, he ha
the gallery absolutely gibbering atte
he had sunk n mashie niblick she
from trap 100 feet from the pin.
HEWED TO THE LINE.
But these detonations were as tn
sounds made by the boys popgun /
: unison with the roar of n hOwitzcl
. Jones, all too seldom wrong, wa
shooting par or better at every holt
. without the slightest fuss or Ostenti
ton. He simply hewed to the lin
and let the other achieve the chips.
Of course, there is n turning poir
to every match, however prc-destinc
the result may be. In some cases
comes when the principals step on IN
first tee. This was not that kind
match.
1t came on the fourteenth hole /
the morning when Gum, all square an
lying dead for par four, saw Jont
= sink a 15foot putt for a winnin
. birdie three.
Gum never seemed to be the san
thereafter. As matter Of fact, D
: wasn't. He began to believe for n
p first time that his was losing caus
| and, in consequence, started TO pres
He could have done something worS
5 agninst Bobby Jones but the write
, knows it not.
Bobby. however proceeded to mai
S it absolutely certain by winning n
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