Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-14

~ RAE BURN CLUB, WEST NEW
TON, Mass, September IA
IN There may have been better
~ semi-final pairings than the
two contests under way in the
national amateur golf championship at
the Brae Burn Club today. but to date
they haven't been removed from the
:. musty attic of records.
-, It isn't often that the seni-f1nal round
of the Simon-pure title chase finds even
the vaeuest possibility of the titleholders
of the two great golfing countries meet
ing in the final Yet that is exactly
what will happen tomorrow If T. Phillip
Perkins. the taciturn British titleholder,
beats George j. Voigt of New York
today, and Bobby Jones, still the reign
ling crowned head of golf in this coun-
try, moves forward to victory over
Phillips Finlay, the long shifting Har-
!, ward Junior, who now makes his nome
in Boston and plays from the Sandy
Burr Club, just west OF the city OF the
sacred cod.
And what final that would be, If
Perkins matched shots with Jones for
the American championship, after the
tremendous trimming Jones gave him in
the Walker Cup matches two weeks ago
at Chicago.
At that time the titular head of
American golf smothered Perkins by Is
up and IL to CO. winning the victory
bv the widest margin ever recorded in
the history of Walker Cup matches. He
won't do that here if the play of Perkins
thus far is any criterion. for the Brit
ish champion, playing with the newt
able cigarette tucked away in one cor
ner of his tight mouth and cap
pulled down over his ears, has been
romping around Brae Burn in figures
mighty close to par.
But Perkins first must hurdle George
Voigt, and the lad who learned the
game on the public links in East Poto-
mac Park is rugged, tough customer.
He had DR.. OF r. Willing of Portland,
Greg, punch drunk and groggN' reel
ing under the, relentless Voigt attack
yesterday, closing him out on the thir-
ty-third green by and 8. Voigt took
Willing in his stride, so to speak. never
deviating from the straight and narrow
path that has been his all the week, 4
and never giving the tough customer
from the Pacific Coast look-in. The
genial dentist won the first hole with
q birdie 8 from the impeccable Wash
ington lad, but Voigt squared on the
fourth, and never was down there's
after.
Jones in Formal Last.
Meanwhile, Bobby Jones was out
there, playing the finest golf he has yet
shown in this tournament, reaching the
luncheon interval. shortly after noon
IL I'D on j. B. Beck of the. British team,
and closing him oilt on the twenty
third green by the crushing margin OF
IA up and Is to go-the widest winning
margin ever recorded. in the American
championship.
The other matches were great golf
contests, with Perkins victorious over
johnny Dawson of Chicago on the thir-
ty-fifth hole by and / margin, and
Phil Fnlay playing two of the greatest
recovery shots that ever have been
made in this championship, to take the
lead from Harrison Johnston of st.
Paul and beat him on the seventeenth
by and l. -.
That Johnston Finlay match was the
finest of the day. The golf wasn't so
hot for the boys were all over the lot
with their tee shots, making marvellous
recoveries and then messing. up the
game around the green.
The upshot of it was that Johnston
came to the 556-yard fourteenth hole
! up on the Boston seige gun. And
here Finlay hooked his second shot so
yards of the line, down In the high
grass behind a screen which protects
the fifteenth tee. From that discour-
aging spot he played over the heads of
the gallery within four feet of the hole
and ran down the putt for a birdie 4.
They were all-sultare. and at the
fifteenth Finlay poled out tremen-
dous tee shot rs yards off the line,
deep in the thanking rough. so wide.
indeed, that the bunkers lay between
him and the hole. Johnston was only
a little off the line and in the rough.
He PUT his second in pot bunker, and
then the amazing Ffniay laid his second
shot from bad lie in the rough within
six feet of the hole Those two recov-
cry shots put him up, and they .halved
the sixteenth in par Is. The seven
teenth, 255 yards downhill, has been
Finlay's hole all through this tourna-
ment Only once has he missed the
green with tremendous iron swipe.
And he didn't miss when he was / up.
His ball found the near edge of the
green, and when Johnston pushed his
tee shot to the right and missed a shot
in the rough. the match was In.
voigt Used His Head. 80.
The imperturbable Voigt, playing with
his head as much as his clubs, reached
the luncheon interval up on the willing