Evening star., 1926-09-19
Won ELM CAPTURES
GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
FROM JONES, z AND |

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finally his o and match against Oui-
met yesterday.
Bobby hung on gamely today to
make an uphill fight in the face of
fiawless golf. but he did 1t almost on
sheer nerve. He was great in defeat.
yet the fine edge had been taken
from his approaching game during
the days in which Won Elm was rid
ing easily to preliminary victories
over Watts Gum. Bobby's Atlanta
chum, and George Dawson OF Chi
cago.
The man from beyond the Rockies,
playing with a narrowed set of clubs
because he failed to make his own
respond in the qualifying ROUNDS
early this week. welded an unerring
putter today. But he was even more
marvellous with his approaches. out
driven from the tee on almost every
hole, he laid his second shots so well
up under the flag that Jones could
win only six holes against him.
Real Test on 29th.
The turning point of the match
came on the twenty-ninth green. after
Won Elm had become . up at the
twenty.eighth as the result of erratlc
iron play by the champion. Here the
Pacific Coast player was snort WIN
his second, while his chip was 20 feet
to the side of the pin. Bobby. six feet
tain of his win, but Won Elm coolly
stepped up to the ball and rolled 1t in
for a half, in As.
1t has been said of Won Elm that he
could not stand up under fire in a
gruelling test. But today he proved
at the twenty-ninth hole, II at no
other point, that he was made of the
mettle of champions-a steel blade
which refused to bend under the most
crucial test of his career.
II knew had him beaten after that
putt" Won Elm declared later, and so
1t proved.
Won Elm Wanes On 32d.
Jones went on for one more hole to
halve the short thirtieth in SIS, but
Won Elm. sensing his victory, pressed
on to take the thilty-f1rst, where
Jones drove into a brook, put his
second Is a trap and finally wound up
with S to Won Elm's we'll played a.
With margin of three holes on the
champion, Won Elm wavered tempo
rarily to take three puts at the
thirty-second, costing him the hole.
Jones once more had Won Elm with
in reaching distance with up. But
lingering hope for a finishing rally on
the part of the champion was quickly
dispelled on the next two holes. Won
Elm held Bobby even with a par and
5 on the next two holes and smiling
Albanian turned from the cup to shake
hands with a new champion.
II have got two scores to settle
with Jones' today, and he'll have to
play better than par golf to beat me,
said Won Elm as he went to the first
tee.
Jones' Lead Shortlived.
And Bobby Immediately began to
do that very thing, sinking a birdie
to win the first hole to Won Elm's par 5.
But the lead of Jones was to be
brief one. Won Elm, playing power
fully and accurately with his irons to
overcome the superior hitting of Jones
off the tee. promptly leveled the count
by winning the second as Bobby stray
ed from the line.
Won Elm started his drive for
victory at the fifth. where he pitched
almost under the flag to hold out
birdie 3 and become / up.
Jones squared it on the next hole. but
Won Elm promptly reeled off another
birdie at the seventh to obtain
lead which he never thereafter re-
during the morning round
Bobby started the afternoon round
as he had begun the morning session
with a birdie at the nineteenth,
hal ~ hA RNt Vat,
Finn would let him get no farther.
On the next three holes they played
stroke for stroke to match the
difficult par of the course. Then Won
Elm once more dashed ahead with a
15-foot putt on the twenty third. to
gain lead which he never thereafter
relinquished.
Tradition Is Upheld.
A long record of triumphs was
broken and a 30-year-old tradition
sustained in the elevation Of Won Elm
to the throne. Jones had won 13
successive matches in national
amateur championship competition
before he squared off against the Los
Angeles player today. He had
strokes in the British open aud then
moved on to lead an international
field in the championship chase. He
had topped another great field only
recently in the subsequent American
open.
But fate had decreed that he should
not complete his triumphant march
with third national amateur victory,
and he fell after a brave effort, even
as Jerry Travers, Walter J. Travis
and H. Chandler Egan had fallen in
the days before his reign.
The morning cards:
Won Elm. out. 5 4 4 3 3 4 4 $50
Jones. OUT. 4 8 4 3 4 5 4 4-S7
Won Elm, in. 4 4 3 5 5-S7-13
Jones. in. 4 4 4 3 s 5-36-73