Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-15

Brae Burns rolling fairways today an
overwhelming favorite to retain his ma
tional amateur golf championship and
beat T. Phillip Perkins, the keen-eyed,
cigarette smoking British amateur
title holder. who now constitutes the
lone obstacle between Jones and his
fourth amateur crown.
Never before in the annals of golf
has there been a final such as that
presented in staid old Boston today
for not in all the lengthy history of the
game have the amateur champions of
the two great golfing countries ever
met in the final round for a national
championship Boston is groggy with
the excitement of it. realizing that to
the Hub has come the greatest honor
of all. and is betting scads of money
on Jones to retain his championship.
And we'll the residents of the land
of the sacred cod might, for Jones has
at last found his stride. The killer
instinct in the bronzed Albanian is on
top once more. and he is very likely
to bruise the British entrant badly
before Perkins finally takes off his cap
and shakes the hand of Jones in con-
graduation somewhere along the bunk
cred route today.
VOigt Bows to Perkins.
Perkins is in the final round by
virtue of 6-and-4 victory over George
j. Voigt in one of the finest golf
matches ever played, match in which
the Britisher survived the gun-fire of
Voigt when the barrage grew hottest
and only increased the pressure as the
match wore on in its middle stages
to close Voigt out on the thirty-second
green.
Jones crushed Phillips Finlay, the
young Harvard student, under the driv-
ing power of game that put the At
lanta lawyer around in 70 over the first
Is holes of the match and enabled
him to go to lunch 9 up on the long
driving entrant from Boston. Finlay
hardly gave Jones a match. for again
the Boston entrant was wild as hawk
from the tee, and where he made the
most marvellous recoverieS to beat Har-
rison r. Johnston in the quarter final,
against the super golf of Jones, his brill
lance did not avail.
Nine up over the first 18 holes,
Jones won the first three in the abbre-
waited afternoon session, closing Flnlay
out on the sixth green. Bobby puts them
away close to the clubhouse where the
gallery won't have far to walk. The Per-
Voigt affair ended in Scotch mist
far out on the fourteenth hole, where
every one had to walk back through
a rain over the hills to the clubhouse
These golfers should be more consid-
crate.
The scion of the Jones family played
"a holes in just three better than even
is over course whose par is 70 and
tough one.
Perkins played the same number of
holes in exactly even As, which would
have been quite good enough to trim
amy other golfer in the field, but would
have been Just three down to Jones.
Probably the final today won't be any
such walkaway as Jones had against
John Beck and Finlay, but with Jones
in the final the pressure probably will
be far too great for the British entrant
to stand. Bobby should twist the lions
tail by at least six holes.
Perkins a Great Player.
Not that this Perkins chap isn't
great golfer. He must be to have gone
along the bunkered path to the final
of the amateur championship. taking
Johnny Dawson and George Voigt in
his stride. and playing 81 holes in only
two shots over even As. But Jones has
been cracking the ball around Brae
Burn in better shape than that, for
when he beat Finlay on the sixth hole
yesterday he had played the last SO
holes in under par and 9 under As,
That should be the tip-Off on the match
today.
Perkins is quite character study.
He smokes cigarettes necessarily, from
the time he leaves the first tee until
he goes back to the clubhouse. He
hasn't yet been seen without a cigar
cite tucked away in the corner of his
capaciouS mouth, not far below the
glasses that shield his keen eyes. It's
rumored that he uses only one match
all during the day. Maybe so. but 1t
Is true that he never throws cigarette
stump away without lighting another
from the butt. And he has peculiar
mental kink about small impediments
such as leaves. twigs and other things
on the putting green. Instead of pick
ing them up and throwing them away.
on his golf Knockers. BY the time he
reaches the clubhouse he has a great
collection of odd little knick-knacks
The story has 1t that he is going back
to dear old England. and then return
to this country at an early date to settle
down here. He hasn't confirmed 1t
himself. but he might as we'll, for the
other members of the British team have
appeared to slip him what Is commonly
known as the high hat You see. Per-
kins is commoner, what Is known as
an artisan golfer Frankly. he is
clerk with no particular rank in the
land of caste, and although he is the
British champion, he still is not quite
in the select circle. But he surely plays
a sweet game of golf. clerk and COM
moner to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Voigt of Some Caste.
Voigt. whom he beat yesterday, also
is of the bourgeoisie, and the struggle
match. No quarter was asked or given.
1t was a rough tough struggle. Per-
kins won four of the first five holes. but
Voigt wore him down until the Briton
finally took three puts on the sixth
green and enabled Voigt to go to the
seventeenth but one hole back. Here
Perkins played a great niblick shot 10
halve the hole In 3. They went TO
lunch with the Britisher l up after ne
virtually had given Voigt a half. when
he shanked his second shot.
Voigt won the second hole OF the
afternoon session with birdie s 10
square. and appeared all set TO 60
But instead of going, he vanished 1ar
in the rear, for he hooked to trap
to lose the third, dropped the long
fifth when Perkins canned 2O-footer
for a birdie and then made Two con-
Secutive poor iron shots. Well always
believe that putt of Perkins on the
fifth convinced Voigt that his minutes
in the championship were numbered.
for it isn't like Voigt to put his tee
shot in water hazard at a short hole,
such as the sixth. or hook an iron shot
when confronted by an easily accessible
green, such as the seventh. That's
what he did. however. and then he
came right back to hook into trap
at the short eighth.
From where we stood, 1t looked as If
Voigt had cracked The impeccable
one had feet of clay. after all. and the
pressure was too great Perkins won
the ninth with a birdie 3, to become