Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-11

hat Bobby held up his hand for
silence, and IN a hush so intense it
cracked, struck his ball.
Within two feet of the hole 1t looked
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past. Bob holed the putt carelessly,
almost nonchalantly, and the Ameri-
can open champion of 1926 had been
crowned. #
For even though the jury, in the
persons of Melilorn, Willie Hunter,
Farrell, Diegel and Sarazen were still
out, reports came across the rolling
fairways OF Scioto that, one after the
other, they had cracked and slipped;
that Melhorn, needed to come back
in 80 to tie; that Hunter needed a ~:
that Farrell needed a 80 back and
that Sarazen couldn't make the grade.
no matter how brilliantly the 1929
champion might be-
Meanwhile Melhorn was over the
first nine IN 80. several strokes too
many, and ruined himself with a
on the twelfth, leaving only Hunter
70 hold the gate. Willie took a on
the fifteenth and went out, and no
one was left. The jury had brought
in it's verdict and again Bob Jones
was champion.
Jones Fkay steady.
Jones play at the twelfth ana
thirteenth today was the finest of
the round, for skid here would
have been disastrous. He needed
pars and brides and he got them.
pitch banged up dead at the
twelfth for q birdie 4, and chip al
most holed at the thirteenth. after he
had failed to reach the green with
10 CH
After the seventeenth, where q
or might have ruined him. he was
in. For If Jones wants to win badly
and he wanted to win today-he
can get q on any 4S0-yard hole in
the world. His iron shot at the
eighteenth was one of the most mag
nificent of his career riyailed only
by that great midiron to the
eighteenth at Inwood in 1928, which
won that championship for him.
BY hts victory today, Jones has
done something no American anna
teur has ever done before-won the
open championship twice. ouimet.
Evans and Travers have each won
once. but no Simon Pure before
Bobby ever annexed the professional
title twice.
And Jones' victory came only. 8
years after his first what Inwood
in 1923--and only few short weeks
after his victory In the British open
at Stannee.
A New York, club planned to stage
a match play contest between the
American open champion and the
British open champion. How viii 1t
be played now? VIII Bob Jones go
out and play by himself?
Minus Only One Big Title.
Il Only one big championship Is not
now held by Jones--the British anna
teiir championship, and even the
British admit that If Jones comes over
again next year NE will win that.
Surely no. golfer who ever hit a
brassie shot has ever set such a rec
ordand probably never win again.
For the competition gets keener and
better every year.
At the top. standing out, not alone
by his accuracy and deadly steadi-
ness but by the astounding ability to
score over any course, terrain or lay
out in the world. Is Bob Jones. sthe
finest golfer ever developed in any
Bob has done the impossible. He
has won the British open and the
American open in a few weeks Of
campaigning, Never before has that
been done. It only emphasizes the
greatness Of the 24-year-old Albanian.
& Although Turnesa blew couple Of
short puts In the morning, he I'M
ished well to register 70, giving him
q fwo-shot lead over Melhorn and q
tIlree-shot margin over Jones', The
young New York pro missed q 2-footer
at the tenth and q 4.footer at the
thirteenth puts which might have
given him an easier working margin