New Britain herald., 1928-04-30
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 GOOD GOLF AT 40
Bobby Jones Even Agrees That
 He May be q Mild Threat'


 l Baltimore. Md. April 30 Pt-Bob- by Jones, a6 years Of age and with
 ," national championship compcti- i lions in le years behind him. eX- i poets to play ''reasonably good golf'
 at 40.
 I Charged with being too conserva-
 tive since he is today playing as strong q game as he has ever shown, ] he agreed that here is q chance that he may be a :mild threat at 45 if inc demands oi his profession do not
 make too great inroads on his game. | Beyond 45 the Atlanta wizard has
 no plans. Reminded that Harry Var don a' 50 was good enough to come ! from numerous British triumphs 10 1 bc runnor-up in the championship here. he modestly replied but I'm not Warden"
 Bobby's own hope that he will be able to Qnalify for some of the big cnampiouahips when he is 40, seems to his friends to be entirely too grea: concession to father time or old man par. Even so if he never hits
 serious ball after he has passed
 TWO score years il age he will break
 tue record of another great Gnor- sian. Tyrus Raymond Cobb. elected
 unanimously in Georgia and by q
 large majority in other sections Of the country. the greatest player base ball has produced
 TH IS now playing his c4th year Of major league baseball at slightly more than 4o. When Robert Tyre Jones is 40 he will have played ma jor league golf for 26 years. The Bob- by of today is better than was the Bobby Of five years ago when he won his first championship. George Dun- can. the fast moving Scot, predicted in 1922 that Jones at 80 would be a better golfer than he was at 20. With four years 10 go. "Rubbertire" as the pros call him apparently is about 10 show that Duncan's forecasts are as good as his advice to putters to Init the ball and knock it in the holc.'
 Is Much Heavier
 Bobby at the moment is much heavier than he will be when he steps on the first tee at Olympia fields 10 make another bid for the National Open championship. II put it on in the winter and golf it off in the sumnaer." he explained. Not all of 1t fades away from walking either. The nervous energy expend- ed in serious competition burns a lot of flesh away" In this Bobby finds himself in agreement will, Frank Frisch. The former Tordham and Giant star. and now doing his flashing for St. Louis. Frisch was happy when he was able to start the current season overweight when most of his fellows were trying to get the pounds off,
 Golf, you know. is played Up here." said Bobby. pointing to his head. II do not think ones physical condition is very important. Of course the eyesieht must be good but 1 if you can see and think little bit, it seems 10 me you can play. I | don't worry about my weight. let l that take. care of itself. It always 1 has--so far
 Bobby. who Is playing a series Of matches for the benefit of the Olympic games fund, may lose much of his excess poundage before | he starts to warm up for the years big championships. He ruffed his way over the mountainous course of the Baltimore Country club Sunday and was glad 10 call it q day at the eighteenth green although with Watts Gum he was all square with Corkran and Roland Mac <enZie. The attra ctive though pun shing Baltimore course must have made him think Of his native Geor- yia where Sidney Lanier sang of ,he lills of Habersham and the marshes 'f Glynn. The hills grew and three lays of rain furnished the marshes.
 Apologizcd for Game
 Tn his match at Baltimore he played like Jones until he got 10 the greens but viewed from a normal Jones angle he might as we'll have eft his famous butter. Calamity lane" at home. He took 3S puts .ood enough for the rank and file, put so bad for Rubber Tire' he felt t necessary to apologize to his hosts or his ''miserable golf" He used up '7 strokes in IS holes.
 At the Columbia club in Washing on on his two-match trip he waded trough a combination of rain. slect md snow, with some of the fairways budding rivers and the greens mini- .ture lakes in . 73. Both at Wash ngton and Baltimore his long shots we're all carry and he was on some hree shot holes in two in spite of he opposition of the clements.
 My friends expect too much of ne," Bobby said when surprise was xpressed that he had taken a driv- r on a hole only 25l yards. Mem ers of a gallery had wagered that e would take . spoon or a driving ron. My shots don't travel nearly 0 far as some think or as I would