Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

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six IN at the end of the first Is holes,
where he had one streak OF winning
out of 10 straight holes. and settle the
match at the tWenty-seventh green.
There. with his ball some feet from
the cup and Bobby's inches away 1or
As Perkins walked over to congratulate
his Conqueror.
Only one other man in the history
of tho American amateur tournament
has suffered any more Overwhelming
! defeat or failed to carry the issue De :
vond the twenty-seventh hole. Inat
was in the first tournament. held IN
| 1895 at Newport. where Charles b. NC
Donald of Chicago crushed G. E. Sanos'
IL and IL.
.Jcnes has won all four Of his cham
pionsn p3 by devastating margins, nu1
never as decisively as this time. he
beat George Won Elm for his nrst title.
9 and 8. in 1924. In 1928 he peat
his fellow townsman. Watts Gunn ano
in 1927 conquered Chick Evans, oo'n ny
margins of g and 7. .
In his last three matches of this
tournament, after narrow escape In
l9-whole match with Ray Gorton. Jones
has in succession beaten John Beck
of England, ID and 10; Phillips FIN
Law of Harvard, l3 and II. and Perkins,
10 and 9.
Accuracy Jones Forte.
Az for Perkins. what little resistance
he put I'D today was crushed and what
few hopes he may have entertained
were blasted by, the deadly fashion IN
which Jones played his shots to the
green. The combination of these ap-
breaches with his Usual putting con-
sistency was the feature OF the cham-
pion's game Time after time, BODY
split the pin with these thrilling shots
with an accuracy That was unfalllng'
no matter whether he played from fair
way. traps or rough. With clocK-nKe
regularity. If Perkins shot one within
striking distance of the pin, Jones
would push his own inside.
Most of the time. however. the Eng
lshman played so wretchedly mat ne
seldom had more than fgntlng
chance on the green's. His only real
stand against a tide that was other
wiso irresistible came at the close of
the morning round. where he halved
four out of five holes and won the 9TH
er. When he had opportunities. other-
wise. he failed to capitalize them. The
door was open." for instance. at the
| twenty-second hole. where Bobby put
| his tee shot out of bounds, but Perkins
did the same thing and then pusheo
| his next shot into trap. finally tax
ing and allowing Bobby to win
with 6.
Twice in the morning round Bobby
was conceded holes without using his
putter. At the twenty-fifth hole, where
the Americans drive hit gallery mar
| shall in the head and knocked him uIl-
conscious for few minutes. PERKINS
drove into a ditch and took penalty
! stroke. At the twenty-sixth, the Briton
sliced his drive wildly. hit tree, over
shot the green ana came back snort
while Bobby rolled a 20-footer in for a
birdie g These were typical of the
| wide gulf between the games OF the
! two finaliStS.
| Holes Puts Up to Is Feet.
| For one streak of 10 holes in the
| morning round. where Jones won eight
| it looked as though the young Eng
| lishman would be buried more COM
| pletely than he was. Over this stretch
| from the fourth to the thirteenth, IN
elusive. Bobby was three under par
firing his shots to the green with amaz-
| ing accuracy and holing puts any,
where I'D to 18 feet III length, besides
Iavjug the long ones so dead that he
| usually was conceded the second putt.
Perkins game virtually went to pieces
at the same time after the Briton had
made an excellent start. winning the
first hole and having the next two IN
par. As against this trio of As however,
he had trio of IS and two OF these
approximate. on the next three holes:
| From the fourth the Englishman topped
his drive badly. sending the ball into
trap on the edge of the fairway: he
| came out to the edge of another trap.
in deep grass, put his third in another
bunker and fired his fourth clear across
the green. He conceded the hole without
recurring Bobby to make single putt
In the short sixth, Jones won the hole
with his tee shot. Perkins missed the
green $50 yards away, then hit on top
| of his ball with niblick with the rSe
suit that it bounced backward and lnso