New Britain herald., 1928-05-04
.GUNN HAS PLAYED
 ALL OF HIS LIFE
Intercollegiate Champion For
 gets When He Started Golf

 teur championship and twice named | q member of the Walker cup team, does not remember when he started 1 playing golf.
 All my life" was the answer Of | the little Georgian to a question as ! to how long he had been playing.
 Gum is only 22 years ot age, a | senior at Georgia Tech and has not | decided what profession or business he will enter when he is graduated | rom college.
 T hope it will be something that | will give me few afternoons off for 1 golf he said as he talked of his | hopes and fears for the campaigns | of 1928.
 Watts won the intercollegiate title last year by defeating Roland Mac kenzie, Brown university star, ten up and nine to play in 36 holes at Garden City.
 He went along in impressive style ill the open at Oakmont in 1925, the year of sudden golf deaths when only 16 were qualified and all the matches were at 36 holes. Gum won his first two matches, F and 10, and 10 and 9. Jess SNeetser, for mer champion, being his second vic tim He found more trouble when he dumped into the Joneses. Dick Jones fell, five up and three to play, but Gunn's fellow townsman, Bobby, turned him back at the threshold of the title, eight and seven,
 Roses and Thorns
 With the golf roses have come the golf thorns too, in Watts voting life. One of the thorns was in the fifth round of the British amateur cham pionship at Muirfield in 1925, when the Hon. w. G, Brownlow defeated him three up and two to play, al' though he won his Walker cup match from the same player, 9 and &. Another was in the dusk of the Minikahda course, Minneapolis, where the national amateur was played last year.
 Watts never got going in the quail flying round there and was tied with ten others at 156. necesstating a playoff. It was almost dark at the first hole and the shades of night had blankcted tho course when the second station was reached. As Watts, peering through the dark ness, decided he was close enough to the hole to be fairly certain Of a putt that would leave him in the competition, another ball came roll ing out of the darkness across the green and fell into the cup with dull thud that marked the passing of the Georgian for that sefles. The owner of the long putting ball quail fled and Watts did not At Baltus- rol the year before he also played at night but found his way in, only to lose to George Non Elm in the third round.
 At the open last year, young Gum needed over so on two rounds and finished in the second division.
 "I have been playing pretty fair sort of golf this year" he said, an admission from the modest collegian equal to q confident boast from many golfers.
 T am on the Georgia Tech team and that gives mo q chance to get some hot competition. l got some of it at Yale when We lost our only match of the eastern trip.
 Help From Jones
 "Of course playing with Bobby Jones is big help to me. No one could play with Bobby and not be benefited. l can't hit the ball as he does, but if l even approNilha'e his distance. l will do well enough for ordinary purposes.
 The Atlantan, who is the city $ second most distinguished golfer, went abroad with the Walker Cup team of 1926 and survived until he met the Hon. Mir. Brownlow. At luncheon the day Of his defeat he attempted to tell Atlanta's other ! represontative all about it, but there vas so much detail that he had reached only his second shot on the 1 third hole when Bobby Jones had to ask that the recital be dlscon- finued until after dinner as he mad to go out on the course to Ill ms own engagement for the day.
 Watts met Bobby at Baltimore the other day 10 team up with him Tn q series Of exhibition matches for the Olympic games fund. He had just finished q trip with the Georgia Tech golfers to Pennsylvania. Yale and Princeton.
 "These eastern golf teams are moi stuff" said Watts 10 Bobby. "TheA have their own pro and everything.
 50 has Tech it's own pro- salc
 Bobby.
 "I never heard of him.. Waits
 came back, "Who is he?"
 "Oh, yrs you have heard of him.
 Bobby replied You're it"
 Being called good enough for ,
 pro. even in jest. caused "Nattsy
 old boy" as Bobby calls him. t'
 blush. and he went all the way t' the eleventh hole of inc Baltimore Country club before he got put
 down for q birdie two 10 recover
 his compoSIirc.
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