Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-28
Aqain Wins National ANA
teur Crown by Defeating
Evans, 8 and 7.
ALBANIAN TIES TRAVIS
MARK FOR SUCCESSES
Chick Looks Good in Defeat, Play
ing Fine Second Round After
Being 6 Down.
BY BRIAN BELL.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

MINNEAPOLIS, August 27.-BObby
Jones today won the national amateur
golf championship for the third time
in four years. bowling over the last
obstacle in his path, the veteran
Chick Evans, s up and to go.
To defeat the Chicago player, the
Albanian, who recently won the Brit.
sh open championship with record
breaking 285, clubbed the Minikahda
course into complete submission. scor.
ms 81, five under par, in the morn
ing round, Wen he had Evans
down, and stepping out in the after
noon. when he seemed for a time to
have lost his rine touch, in SO, one
over par, for the first nine.
Going to the twenty.ninth green
Z down. and 8 to play, Chick had a
short putt for a half, which would
have left the match dormie. 1t was
raining and the twelfth hole was
near,y 400 yards away, so no one.
not even the loAer, seemed to mind
when Chick suddenly walked over to
Bobby and congratulated him.
Gallery Is Surprised.
The CALLER for a few minutes did
not know what to make of this, as
Evans had not putted, but he had
used up a stroke by inadvertently
moving his ball as he took his stance.
The game Evans looked good in de-
feat, for he made golf match of it
in the afternoon, after he had gone
to luncheon six holes behind. He knew
that no man could come from six
holes back to win from Bobby Jones,
but he Ike It trying and at one time
in the afternoon round had cut the
lead to four holes, gettiI g two back
in the first five holes of the after.
noon.
However, after the twenty-fourth
was halved. Bobby won the next three
and started out on the last nine with
his greatest advantage Of the match.
The twenty-eighth was halved with
poor fives when both players needed
three puts and the end came at the
next hole.
In the afternoon Bobby lost his
at the twenty-first, and although he
was over par at the twenty-third,
he could not have won with par, as
Chick had a birdie 3.
BY winning today Bobby equaled
the record of the late Walter j. Travis,
who won the championship in 1900,
1901 and 1908. The comparison is
not quite the same, for Bobby was
runner-up last year, making his rec
ord three championships and once
runner-up over a period of four years.
The champion has another mark to
shoot at in the amateur, however, for
Jerome D. Travers won the title four
times, 1907, 1908, 1912 and 1913.
ROuts Old Man Par.
Jones great golf today ro lted the
we'll trapped and rough-bordered
Nemesis of all but the best golf play
ers. old man par. had been fiat on
his back for several days under ter.
rible punishment meted out to him
by the fast.f1ying Bobby. Today the
twice-crowned national open. national
amateur and British open champion.
ship jumped on him with both feet
and left him quite groggy If not COM
pletely knocked out.
The loser, who has been runner.
up three times, twice won the titles,
paid the winner high tribute when
President William c. Fownes, jr., of
the United States Golf Association,
standing in the rain, presented the
medals to Bobby, the champion. and
Chick, the runner-up, and gave Bobby
the championship cup to take to the
Atlanta Athletic Club with him.
II did not mind losing" Evans said.
1T was worth the defeat to see such
an exhibition of marvellous golf"
The champion, in his brief speech
acknowledging the presentation, said
nothing about his golf game, but ad-
mitted he liked the Minikahda course.
A survey of the scores Re made on it
would suggest that he should want
to take it home with him.
Five Strokes Under Par.
In the first IS holes of his three
36-hole matches in the quarter finals,
semi-finals and finals, Jones shot
6S-69-67. Jimmy Johnston, Francis
Ouimet and Chick Evans falling be-
fore the attack. The champion played
Is holes in 598 strokes in the cham
pionship. strokes under par and 10
strokes under fours.
Monday and Tuesday he played the
36-hole qualifying round in 142 strokes
to become medalist, his second days
81 establishing a course record. Wed.
nesday, when he had a IS, he did 81
holes in 141 strokes. Thursdays play
totaled u holes in 104 strokes, and Fri
day he played rs holes in 100. Todays
20 holes used up Ill strokes.
Jones never before has been 10 un-
der fouS in major championship,
but at the East Lake course in At.
lanta in 1922 he won the Southern
amateur with a score 10 strokes un-
der four and like number under par.
The weeks play by the champion
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