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

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third time in four successive years
Jones has annexed the premier title
of American amateur golf.
Seven down and to play, with
Jones ball lying eight inches from
the cup in >. Evans stopped down
over his bali on the twenty-ninth
green this afternoon TO address his
ball Putting for a half to carry the
match another hole and forced to
make the putt to so past the twenty
ninth. Evans suddenly Strengthened
ND. pointed to his ball and walked
b over to shake Jones hand in concratu'
"'lation.
He explained to President ". c.
Fownes of the United States Golf AS
ISOLATION that as he was addressing
:. his hall it turned over and he was
penalized a stroke. AS Jones was
within a foot of the hole Evans con-
coded the putt to the Albanian and
, gave him the match by and Z.
Under the rules of golf if the ball
turns over after the player has taken
his stance a penalty of one stroke
is incurred. If the ball revolves and
returns to its original position no
penalty is involved. Scarcely any in
: the gallery of 5000 persons banked
around the green at the 177-yard hole
saw the ball move and few knew the
import of the incident until officials
announced the match was over, With
Jones victorious by and 4.
Ends Remarkable Day.
The occurrence ended a remarkable
day of golf, which found Jones In
happy scoring mood in the morning.
romping over the first nine holes in
Al strokes, under par, and getting
home in SO for 81 to equal his own
course record and reach the noon time
interval 6 UP on the smiling Chi
cagoan.
Evans made a determined stand
+. over the first five holes of the after
noon engagement. but broke before
the relentless onslaught of brides and
pars Jones flung at him from the
seventh on, to be closed out on the
twenty-ninth green.
The winning margin piled up by
Jones is one of the largest ever
recorded in the championship final.
, When Evans conceded Jones his
eisht-inch putt on the twenty-ninth
the champion had played ia holes
over this testing course in 10 strokes
under even As and strokes under par,
the greatest exhibition of scoring ever
shown in the amateur championship.
With a 67 behind him over the
morning half of the final. he was out
in So this Afternoon against Evans
and nlayed the tenth and eleventh
holes in and 8, one over par.
Jones' Two Wonder Shots.
Jones 81 in the morning, the round
which nut him so far ahead no golfer
IN the world could catch him, was
marked by two of the finest. shots
ever played in the championship.
One. a. full iron into the wind at the
F.. 144-yard second hole, which ended b
: inches from the cup, and the other
a full brassie shot, which ended .
feet from the tin at the 512-yard ninth
hole to give Jones an eagle ) anf
put him out in 81.
over the morning half Jones put
ting was even more remarkable. Tor
he was around in. 80 puts, counting
two puts at the seventeenth. where
he had a 3-footer for II birdie 3,
but was stymied by Evans. Chick
won two of the. first five holes in the
Afternoon, but his victory at the fifth
was his last effort, for Jones won
the seventh. eighth and ninth to reach
the twenty-seventh hole Z up.
Jones. from the very first hole of
the match, gave Chick an indication
OF the kind of golf he was to shoot.
for the Albanian, who also holds the
British open championship, hit the
cup for a birdie 3 10 halve the hole
in with Evans. Bob won the sec
ond with birdie 3 and also won the
short third when Evans tee shot
went over the green at this 141-yard
hole. Chick missed 3-footer to
enable Jones to win the fourth with
birdie 4, and they halved the fifth in
1t-;th E-fnOtpr
for his birdie.
Turns Up OH Evans.
They split the short sixth and the
4J5.yard seventh in par figures and
Jones won the eighth with a par 3.
hoing 10-footer to win. His great
brassie second won the ninth with an
eagle and he turned ) up on Evans.
Jones still was in his great scoring
mood as they faced the 4l9-yard
tenth. for he laid a mashie shot 6
feet past the cup and won with
birdie 3.
Al this juncture Evans remarked.
against such golf | might as well
he driving with a put:er." And it
was true. for Jones consistently was
inside him from the tee and on the
green. with Evans forced to make
lengthy bids for halves. while Jones
had fairly easy puts for brides
Evans won his first hole Of the day
AT the short eleventh, the same mole
where it ended in the afternoon.
hOiinc a lJ-f0oter for a birdie >. They
nalved the twelfth in par As and the
long thirteenth in birdie As and
Evans lost chance TO win the four.
teenth when Jones was in a bunker
with his second shot and the chi.
cagOan missed an S-fo0t putt to win.
Jones won the fifteenth when
Evans second shot was far to the
right of the green. only 10 drop the
sixteenth by taking three to get down
from the edge, his sole error IN the
putting green during the morning.
Bob had 3-footcr to win the seven.
teenth. but Evans bah stvm'cd him
and he couldn't hole it, Then Jones
won the eighteenth to reach the
luncheon interval up when Evans
second shot went down bank at the
left of the green.
Driving down the first fairway be.
tween serried lines of spectators reach.
ing from tee to green in the gathering
gloom Of A rainy Minnesota after
noon, Evans early gave indication of
the spirited fight he was to carry to
Jones by nearly holing a 30-footer for
a birdie 3. But he only halved the
hole when the Atlanta wizard sank a
threefoOter for his 4. They split the
twentieth hole in As v'i,h Evans hol-
ing a three-footer after a chip, which
nearly went down.
Jones was short of the green from
the tee at the short twenty-tirst and
Evans won with a par 3, when Jones
missed a 10-footer for the half. Though
Jones second shot at the long fourth
was trapped he got half when Evans
1N-foot bid for birdie slid past the
cup,
Jones made ore OF his few mistakes