Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-19

distance annihilating smaShcs OF 10
flying iron shots Bob Jones has ever
Down most of the way to Won Elm
the defending titleholder made sam
bid over the afternoon round, a ga
liant bid that just fell short o
fruition as brace of puts curled
away from the cup on the fourteenth
and sixteenth holes. Naliantly Jones
struggled aGainct the crushing power
of the game Won Film put up to him
today. He presented the spectacle OF
ia great champion. game TO the core
caught off his stride and yet defend
ing his crown with all the wizardry
sof titleholder whose back was
against the wal, and whose spirit
and will to win alone kept him in
the struggle. For Bob Jones today
even though he had 4 for I?
when Won Elm ended the final match
by > and | on a seventeenth green
ringed about by the largest cr6rd
that ever saw a cha mpionShip final
still was not the Jones who beat
Evans and Oimet nor the Jones whC
beat Won Elm at Merton and Oak
mont.
Victor Attains New Heights.
George Won Elm, the new title.
holder, and the first from the Pacific
Coast, raised his game TO heights he
never before has reached in this
championship to beat staggering
Jones, but a Jones who. pushed to
the ragged brink of defeat. fought
back to carry the match to the thirty
fifth hole when the game Won Elm
put up would have beaten any other
man in. this tournament by Il half
dozen holes.
- A glorious specta Gle. the one pre-
scented at Baltusrol TODAY. Not be
cause Jones lost, or beca use Won Elm
won. But u great spectacle 10 Sc =
champion performing in defense ot
his crown As did Jones. and Nor
Elm, who met the thrust of the mas
ter with keener blade and turned
him back AT the crest of his power
in the year Bob Jones picked to win
two national open championships.
Jones' most persistent challenger
for three years--thc man Bobby knew
he must heat to win the title Won Elm
came To Baltusroi dis Cus;ed with his
game. playing ~ poorly that he felt
he was lucky tn qualify. Day ny day
after the medal round his game inn
proved and TODAY found him aawless-
a Won Elm nj the crest. challenger
whose power would NOT 0e denied
even by the master himself.
Won ELM Plays FlawIessly.
Against any other man in the tour
nament Bobs Jones still would he
champion today. but he found Won
Elm keyed up to the highest pitch. a
Won Elm whose firm anu crisp iron
play was without a flaw. tiger who
set his teeth in the flank o. his adver-
hrI., 4 Il
mined against all tha artillery tbs
tCppling champion could bring to bear
Won Elm Won Ivy , and / over the
3G-h"l" route But the cold hard
cnSenry VI the figures brings on: little
OF tn" dramatic hat r-2- in an" epic
struggle thee sons uf tnr West and
South staged 'oGiaE Iu'enSe. close all
tn" way. th@ Tide If la tie swaved
back and fo":h ">er HaltuSrol's close
clipped !ajrWaNS. and not until the
very emf itse.t would any one be sure
Bob Jones had leen beaten.
Three down with five to 20 the
champion put his all into an attempt
to materialiZe one OF the dramatic fin
ishes he has staged in other wears
Sensing his determination Won Elm
cracked trif1e. missing q short putt
for half At the thirty-second hole
nut opening only temporarily 4 gar
which Jones could not keen open.
Jones Two Mistakes Fatal.
When two men play such golf as
this pain played today. and there is a
two-hole margin between them at the
thirtv-tifth. there ism; much to choose.
Won Elm was crisper with his irons.
Jones made two fatal mistakes
through the fairway They cost him
the championship this afternoon
They came at the tenth and thir-
tenth, two mistakes Fob Jones hasn't
made in two-Score holes of champion.
ship play. The one at the tenth found
Jones hooking a long iron shot into
the trap at the green edge, and that
at the thirteenth left his ball lying in
mud and water in a ditch he had pre-
viously had no trouble carrying.
The morning round literally left
nothing to choose between the final
lists. They were both around in IS
matching each other. shot for shot, In
round that again found the cham
pion struggling to hold his game. Not
in years of this competition has Jones
played so poorly and done so well as
he did today. for instead of going to
lunch ] down. he might well have
turned down. 50 lacking in i'm
presSiveness was his game.
Bob Squares the Match.
Bob squared the match at the first
hole in the afternoon slipping a chip
shot from a bunker dead to the pin
while Won Films wide brassie shot
found another trap and he couldn't
get close on his recovery. They halved
the second hole in par As. a perform
ance they duplicated at the third. And
both tries for IS brushed by the cur
at the short fourth. another half re
suiting, to leave them still all square
Jones lack of crispness with his
spade mashie should have put his bal
in a bunker, but it held on the slip
perry surface of the hog-backed fifth
green. 1t didn't do him any good, how
ever, for Won Elm sank a 15-footer fol-
a birdie to go into the lead he never
gave up. The tiger had gotten his
grip, and nothing could shake him
loose.
Bob again pushed his iron second
at the sixth and was lucky again no
to be trapped. for his shot was far of
the line. and a putt ran up dead.
The long seventh found Won Elm
trapped at the left and Jones failing to
get home with his iron second from
the rough. They halved. in rs and
split the eighth in par Is. Brave bids
FOR deuces again at the 9th Welded y
half in 4.
And at the tenth Jones made the
drst Of the twin nistakss thai wers