The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-05

the time was ripe, put Lnat IL
power was all conquering.
Bobby and Watts are inseparable
companions. They eat together,
they play together, they dress
about alike, and they golf very
much the same. Watts has
Bobby's classical style all the way
through. He also has Bobby's
natural inclination not to push mat.
tiers too hard.
Georgia's sons have sewed up the
classic No matter what the out
come, Georgia is certain to have a
banner year for the 81 told you
SOS" The peaches probably will
touch Of sweetness and an added
girth.
George Won Elm, the dour Wis
aged, cocky little golfer from the
Pacific coast, was forced to admit
Bobby Jones was the better golfer.
Won. playing In and out golf. re-
fused to rush in to the widely
open door that Bobby at times OF.
fered him, and when the open
door is spurned. little hope is left.
Bobbyis big heart preferred
George hole on the nineteenth.
He neatly and with dispatch
sliced his drive close TO the fence
and nearly out of bounds. George
offered the other cheek. and
Bobby vigorously aad with finesse.
slapped it soundly. In other
words, George hooked one to the
edge of q steep ditch. and had
to take q stance similar to the
Statue of Liberty, he deserved
the five.
What few holes Won Elm did
take out OF Jones game were
mostly brides, seldom, IL ever. did
two three-putt greens, yet he was
the more renowned Georgian go
over par. In the morning he had
out in thirty.five, two under par.
In the afternoon, over the same
turf, he was under par by a single
stroke. Such golf is not calculated
to give thine enemy much piece OF
mind.
Because he happened to be ma.
tional amateur champion, Jones
was not the especial favorite OF the
gallery Of 5000. Most every one
likes to see the king get an occa-
sional kick. and while only a few
hardy souls really expected Won
Elm to do the foot work. many
were pulling for him. The Pacific
coast star gets hearty applause
whenever he took a hole. Mostly
his putting did the work for him.
Jones' margin of up and 6
TO 60 does not fully show his
chunky sOutherner had George
pressing like a tailor all the way.
Won was taking Jones' drive as
a criterion instead Of playing his
own game. Tho natural and Iogi.
cal result was that Bobby set the
pace and his opponent tried to
Keep up.
Dick Jones played havoc with and
well nigh wrought destruction on
tie vitals of Watts Gum early in
the fray. Dick simply refused to
be cowed by Gums brilIiancy and
he fought back tooth and nail. On
the first nine OF the thirty-six hole
engagement, Dick was all over
Gum like cloud. No matter what
the tanned boy from Atlanta did
he found Dick sticking by his side.
On tee shots, on the iron and
brassie second shots, on chip shots
tc the green, and occasionally on
the putting Jones proved that he
vas fully capable OF forcing Watts
to the limit.
He varied from one up to even
and one down all the way through
the first nine holes. He came into
the eighteenth two down and much
to the delight of the gallery holed
thirty-foot putt on the eighteenth
green for q birdie three and a win,
That left him into, the lunch room
just one down. BY no means a
lopsided count.
Gum got i'm some quick and ef
fectiYe work in the afternoon. He
won three of the first four holes,
while Dick took the third He also
won the fifth and sixth, and when
Jones blew up on the seventh, he
took that also. Dick got one back
on the eighth and they halved the
ninth in fHes.
Gum lost the tenth, won the
eleventh, and twelfth. He was
behind Jones on the thirteenth
and he made Jones dormie four
down by taking the fourteenth in
three while Jones had to make
1t four. Communion with his
putting guide brought Gum the
bacon on the fifteenth when he
ran down a fOrty.fOOt putt, Dick
walked over and shook hands
with the great little SOutherner.
Gums shooting all the way
through was remarkable in the