Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-14
and British 7ehos May Meet in Final OF Amateur COLI Event

DR.. Willing who suffered all the morn
ing from an apparent epidemic OF
nerves. Willing couldn't get the ball up
to the hole, and his usually great put
ting stroke was sadly OF. Wiling took
three puts on two greens on the nrst
nine Of the afternoon round, both OF
which cost him the hole, and ne turn
ed 8 down to Voigt when the wash
ington-bre bulldog holed tour-1ooter
for birdie at the ninth. That match
Virtually was over right there, for Voigt
is in such a streak and is putting SO
well that no man in the field can spot
| him four holes with nine to go ana
hone to remain on his heels. WlIng
made A last stab for victory when ne
won the short twelfth with birdie q,
but that was his dying effort as the
next three holes we're halyed, leaving
| Voigt victorious by and 8.
Perkins and Dawson had DOG ngnt
in which only the logged plugging OF
the British champion carried him
through. Perkins was up going 10
the thirteenth, but lost that hole when
his ball found heel print in the SOFT
fairway. trampled down under thous-
ands of feet. He also lost the nj
tenth when he put his third shot lar
past the green and missed the short
pitch-back. They halved the fifteenth
and Perkins won the sixteenth to be-
come dormie up when Dawson played
his second shot over the green. AND
at the fatal seventeenth, which has
wrecked so many hopes in this cham
pionship, Perkins played his iron tee
Shot within 10 feet of the hole. He !,
never putted the ball at all, for Daw-
son hooked far to the left in the rough,
missed a shot, got on in 3 and his
bid for a failed to go down, giving
Perkins the match, 3 and /.
Jones Was Just Himself.
Bobby Jones was just himself all day.
Against the barage of supergof the
Albanian threw at him, Beck was with
IS to Bobby's 10 in the morning and
was IL down After that Bobby had
nothing to do, but play for halves He
gave Beck a 2-yard putt for half
on the twenty-Second hole, and ended
the match on the twenty-third when
he canned birdie 4 on this 577-yard
affair.
Jones should have little trouble with
Finlay today The comparative scores
should tell the. story. for where Jones
was around in 20, Finlay took 80 yes
terday morning. The Voigt-Perkins
affair should be the real humdinger
OF CI1e Gay, IOF VOlSt, UdIIllS tIIt
three stymies which DR.. Willing laid
him, would have been exactly even over
the morning round with Perkins, and
Voigt would have been / up on Per-
kins at the fifteenth hole where the
Bannockburn star stopped for a well
earned rest.
Voigt is playing the same heady brand
of golf here that always distinguished
him in matches around Washington |
He always is putting it up to the other
fellow, and his work around the green's |
is deadliness itself. He literally broke |
Vikings heart on the. putting green's, |
for Willing himself is one Of the great |
putters Of the game, and Voigt far out
shone him. George never missed hole |
able putt all day, and we'll always be- |
lieve the putt that hurt Willing more |
than any other was the one on the |
tenth in the afternoon, where Voigt |
canned a 10-footer for birdie 4 with |
Willing. lying feet away for his birdie. |
If Voigt misses the hole the other fell
low usually has to play around his bali |
He always is on the high side Of the |
hole in a spot where his opponent has |
to, worry about his ball. That is cagy |
match-play golf and no one Is better |
equipped for it than George Voigt. He |
may beat Perkins, and If he does it will |
be great final, for Voigt will not quf; |
to Jones