Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-28


| They halved the short sixth in par
3s, leaving Evans only down. But
! here the Evans rally ended. for Chick
pushed his ball into the woods at the
| seventh. played out into bunker and
| lost the hole To Jones par 1. Evans
/ tee shot was far over the green at
! the short eighth, and Jones pushed
| to the rough at the right. Evans
/ second shot was short and Jones
! holed a five-footer to win and become
6 up.
The ninth hole of the afternoon. as
in the morning, bristled with spectac-
ular golf.s Bobby pushed his tee shot
| to the high grass. leaving a row Of
| high trees between his ball and the
green. Evans, far down the fairway
off the tee. pulled his second shot to
a bunker and Jones sliced around the
trees. Then the Albanian pitched up
to within five feet and sank the putt
to win with birdie 1. Jones was !
up and to play.
That Twenty Ninth Hole Freak.
The twonty-eighth was halved in
buzzard IS, both men going over the
green on their second shots and mis-
sing short puts for par As. Evans
I
four feet in length, played as a beat
ing rain drove into his face. That
left Jones up and s TO go and then
came the astonishing incident of the
twenty-ninth. probably the most un-
usual ending any amateur champion
ship ever has had.
Both men were on the green from
the tee and Chick made a bold bid for
his deuce. Bobs putt for a deuce lay
eight inches away when Evans acct
dentally moved his ball when he was
putting for the half and he conceded
Jones the short one and the cham
pionship.
Officials of the association explain
ing the incident, said there was no
question that Evans ball had moved,
although few in the gallery saw it.
Altogether it was a most unsatis-
factory ending to a great champion
ship and there were those unklnd
enough to say that Evans saw the
inevitable in sight and that rather
than face the driving rain to the
twelfth, deliberately moved his ball.
In any event, the decision stands s
and in Jones favor.
Bob Jones and Chick Evans have
now met three times in competition.
great Atlanta youth over his peren-
NAL rival from Chicago.
Five times Jones has been in the
final round of the championship and
three times he has won. He has
dominated the amateur since 1924
when he broke through at Merton to
win his first amateur title after seven
years of heartbreak and disappoint-
ment. Since 1928 his record in this
title chase reads:
Jones' Remarkable Record.
1924-Merion. won from George
Won Elm. 1925-Won from Watts
Gum. 1926-Medalist and lost in
final to George Won Elm. 1927-Med.
alist and won from Charles Evans. jr.
He also was runnerup to Davidson
Heron in the final of the 1919
championship at Oakmont. Jones now
has played in 10 amateur champion
ships and has won three times.
Evans has ben playing in the cham
pionship since 1909. Today's match
marked his fifth appearance in the
final. He won the title in 1916 at
Merton and again in 1920 at Roslyn.
The victory for Jones today equaled
the record of three amateur champion
ship victories held by Jerome ID.
Travers and the late Walter J. Travis.
Jones forged to the front as these
stars were fading from the champion
ship spotlight, finding his chief rivals
the man he beat today and Jess
Sweetser of New York. For the past
four years his most dangerous rival
and the man who beat him for the
championship last year has been Won
Elm. The 1926 title holder lost in
the second round of the championship
here this week to Harry G. Legg
Minneapolis veteran.
Jones now holds two national cham.
pionships, The British open, which
he won early in June with a record
breaking score of 2S5 at St. Andrews,
and the American amateur. which he
won today. Last year was his great
est year, however. for during the
summer he held the American anna.
teur and open titles and the British
open, in which he repeated this year.
Breaks 20 Three Times.
His last three days of match play
over the par ~ Minikahda course
have found the Atlanta Marvel thrice
breaking 20. He shot a IS against
Harrison Il. Johnston in the first half
of his third round match, a 50 against
Francis Ouimet over the first half of
his semi-final mat h and a 61 gainst
Evans today. Brutal golf, of the kind
that he alone can shoot. won Jones
the championship. He is the undis.
puted king of the amateur realm.
All his matches since the first dav
of match play have been won by wide
margins. In his first rounds. and his
poorest, he went to the eighteenth
hole to beat Maurice j. Mccarthy
of BROOKLYN up. Then he beat Eu.
gene '. Romans of En2lewOod, and
,. leading up to the startling brand Of
golf he unleashed over the last three
matches. Harrison Johnson fell by
10 and before the wiZardry of the !
hampton: Francis Ouimet shook hands !
with Bobby on the twenty-siXth green. ,
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