Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
JONES Wins TITLE
FOR FOURTH TIME
Smashing 10-and-9 Victory
Over Perkins Sets Record
in Amateur Golf.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.
STAFF Correspoudent of The Star.

BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.
STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
BRAE BURN COUNTRY CLUB, West
Newton, Mass, September 15.-The
finest golfer who ever whistled a smash
ing tee shot down a bunker Lined fair
way won his fourth national amateur
championship over this course today.
Robert Tyre Jones. jr., reigning king
of amateur golf in America, reasserted
his right to the throne along toward the
middle Of the afternoon, crushing T.
Phillip Perkins, the British amateur
champion, by 10 and to record his
fourth victory in the Simon-pure
classic, tie Jerome D. Traver's record
of four wins in the national amateur
and eclipse the major championship
record Of every man but one who ever
played the ancient Scottish game.
Jones has now won eight major
championships. Only one man has won
more-John Ball, the lanky Britisher
who had his heyday three decades ago
and is no longer figure. in major
title chase. Ball won eight British
| amateur events and annexed the
British open title once. Jones has now
won the American amateur title four
times and has held the open champion
ships of the United States and Great
Britain twice ecah.
No other amateur is near him in the
business of winning championships, for
Jerome Travers, the Jones of two dec
ades ago, won but five major titles, an
nexing the open in 1915. Even Harry
Vardon, the old master, cannot equal
the mark Jones set today, for Vardon
| won the British open six times and
the American open once.
Brilliant Championship Finish.
Coming on his game Wednesday
afternoon to nose out Ray Gorton OF
Boston, fter Indifferent play in the
qualifying round and poor scoring In
his first match play round and the
first half of the Gorton match, Jones
played the last IS holes of the cham
pionship in 10 shots better than level
fours, a record that left his competi-
ton in a total of 81 holes in the rear.
Only once in the recent history of the
amateur championship has the winning
margin been by more than nine holes.
| That came in 1924, when Jones beat
George Won Elm at Philadelphia by
the same 10 and margin he beat
Perkins today.
Safely through the Gorton match in
the second round of this championship,
in which the Boston amateur carried
Jones to the nineteenth hole, the cham
pion beat John B. Beck of England,
IA and 13; put Phillips Finlay away
13 and IL, and downed the British
champion 10 and in the final. If
there ever has been any doubt as to
his ability to play winning golf, this
championship has dispelled the idea.
Jones now has won four of the last
five amateur championships. Starting
| in 1924 he has lost but one match in
an amateur event in this country, his
single defeat coming at Baltusrol in
1924, when Won Elm beat him on the
| thirty fifth hole in the final. That is
a record for the rest of entries to shoot
at and one that may never be equaled.
If Bobby continues at his present gait
| they might as well give him the cham
pionship and let the rest play for the
runner-up place.
Plays Better Than FOurs.
Although he didn't quite maintain
| the scoring pace against Perkins that
! he had shown against Beck aind
| Finlay, the final round found Jones
| playing the q holes of the final match
in one shot better than even fourS. He
was around in 70 in the morning, even
with bad six on par first hole
where he was trapped and accidentally
moved his ball on the putting green
At the halfway point he was 6 up or
the fighting Britisher, who was no.
| where near the same brilliant per-
! former he was against George j. Voigt
| in the Semi-final
| The afternoon round was just queS-
ton of time and halves for the chunky
! 26-year-old Atlanta lawyer, for Perkins
continued his Indifferent play, while
Jones kept along the even tenor Of his
way, adding the second, fourth, seventh
and eighth holes to 60 to the twenty
seventh dormie 10 up on the British
titleholder. At that Perkins made 9
better showing than he made against
Jones in the Walker Cup matches ir
Chicago two weeks ago, for on that oc.
caSion he was SmOthered under a bar
| rage VI SupcISoiI W SuCColp ny Ii
and IL.
No matter how good the others may
be against different opposition none o.
them seems to play his best agains
Jones. Even if Perkins had played tht
same type of golf against Jones tha
he showed against Voigt the issue
doubtless would have been the same
although the margin might have beer
less. But Perkins was little bit off th'
keen edge of Friday, and the resul
was inevitable. Jones never deviateG
from the impeccability of the game h
started Wednesday afternoon, and a
the pressure kept getting heavier ant
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