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

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golf in the history OF his play IN
national championships, romping
through the last nine holes Of the
I title chase Tin So strokes. one under
par, when faifer or slip would have
meant defeat. vi 81
Rivals skid ON Last Nine.
one by one they slipped and skid
ded--first, Hagen, then iurnesa.
Willie Hunter. John tgarreu. Lev
Ttecel. Bill Melhorn and Gene Sar-
azen And as the professional stars
fioundered and skidded over the last
nine holes. Jones, unfaltering In the
mechanical accuracy Of his marvellous
game, grew steadier and even more
brilliant. breeding home with the
best in-nin1 Of the day, and barely
missing 15.foot putt for an eagle
at the last hole.
Il when Jones finished--and he nm
ished in Observation-Disclosures was
already in with total of ga. That
made the Jones feat even greater, Tor
where others faltered with their feet
on the rungs of the championship,
the Albanian settled down to steadier
golf.
Next to Jones came Turnesa. whose
coIiapse was the worst OF the many
and scorched rough of Scioto today.
Joe will never. forget his at the
long twelfth this afternoon, nor his
missed puts at the sixteenth and
seventeenth, where one shot would
have meant a tie with Jones ana two
would have meant victory.
In third place came Wild Bill Mel.
hnrn. pro at the Old Colony Club OF
Chicago, leader over the first two
rounds. who cracked wide open on
the third round and skidded even
worse over the final gallop, finishing
with a II for a total of 2S6. Nor Vail
Melhorn soon forget the same twelLtn
that cost Turnesa chance Tor tne
shots in a row, finally getting down
lin Z to make his chances deader than
THE old guilty ball.
Hagen Finishes Seventh.
Leo Diegel, Gene Sarazen and John
ny Farrell, all OF New York, tied for
fourth place with 72-hole totals OF
297, one shot in front OF Waiter
Hagen, professional !. match play
champion and holder at one time or
another Of every fmportant profes-
sional title.
Willie MacF,ariane, the 1925 cham
pion, playing poorly on the last day.
finished with u total of 307, register.
ing an 81 over the final furlong.
Tommy Armour. professional at
Congressional Country Club, Wash
ington, finished in q. tie for ninth
place at sol with Willie Klein of
Garden city, Dan Williams of Shack.
amazon and Macdonald Smith OF
Lakeyille. Long Island.
Ralph Beach of Burning Tree, the
other Washington contestant, had q
72-hole total of 317. out of the money.
Armour, with "a on the third
round of the championship and o.!
hole total of 226, had q remote chance
| IL the leaders slipped. He added a 20
in the afternoon, Beach had IS
and a 10 for the day to add to his
previous S6-hole total of 159.
The steadiness and confidence
under FIRE OF Jones won for him the
championship. Profiting through the
failures OF other years when ships
had cost him championships, Bob
| frightened In the pinches today.
Many Trophies at East Lake.
The East Lake Club OF Atlanta now
| was possession of four of the great
golf prizes Of the world-the Ameri-
can amateur championship cup, the
Walker cup, the British open cham
pionsfip cup and the American open
championship trophy. The United
states Golf Association has ordered
the Walker cup sent to Atlanta 10
rest there for a year to commemorate
Jones, victory in the British open
championship.
less Sweetser OF New York, the
British amateur champion, also Is a
member Of the East Lake Club.
which now has every national cham
pion in America and Great Britain on
| its membership rolls. The British
amateur cup. however, will remain
at Siwanoy. Sweetser's home CLUB.
Although Melhorn led him by
shot at the beginning of the fina1
round. Jones real tight down the
stretch was with Turnesa. And well
the Atlanta lad knew It. Turnesa.
hreezing along In the same confident
styIe that had marked all his previous
piay IN the champi onship, got out
/ on the last round In 81, leading Jones
bv a shot for the round at the turn
Iand adding one to the three-stroke
lead he had over Jones at the con-
clusion Of the third round.
The young pro from Fairyiew with
the Italian name and the smooth
swing slipped along through the
eleventh in par figures. and suddenly
blew on the long twelfth. where Jones
picked up two OF the four shots he
needed to win. Turnesa. got a. 5 at
Ethe long thirteenth to il for Jones.
added another s at the sixteenth and
missed 8 at the seventeenth.
Two pairs behind him came Jones.
waiting for Turnesa to slip, and
charging in like a tiger when the
young New Yorker skidded. For
Jones had eight As and 9 3 on the
last nine holes where Turnesa had a
and two S. and the rest IS.
Tries for Eagle ut Last.
Bob finally came to the last hole
with q. I to win from Turnesa and S
to tie. AT this hole where yesterday
he took "a today he cracked out q
|27O-yard iron shot, 50 long that he
got home With q well controlled No.
iron, placing his shot dead on line
with the pin to run is feet past.
IA wild gallery Of 5000 people nnilled
and pushed around the eighteenth
green 40 the greatest golfer In the
world studied hts putt. For Jones
wanted tbs putt on the chance that
Melhcrn might slip through with y
wonder round and nip him at the
wire Rlnally. while the crowd yelled
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