Evening star., 1928-04-30
BY BRIAN BELL.

Associated Press Sports Writer
~ ALTIMORE, Md, April 80 (E).--
- Bobby jones' rs years Of age and
with % national championship
IL competitions in IL years behind
him, expects to play reasonably
good golf at 40.
Charged with being too conservative
since he is today playing as strong a
game as he has ever shown, he agreed
that there Is chance that he may be
mild threat" at IS If the demands
of his profession do not make too great
inroadS on his game.
Beyond IS the Atlanta Wizard has no
plans. Reminded that Harry Vardon
at so was good enough to come from
numerous British triumphs to be run
ner-up in the championship here, he
modeStly replied but I'm not Vardon. .
Bcbby's own hope that he will be able
% qualify for some of the big champion
| ships when he is 40 seems to his friends
to be entirely too great concession to
Father Time or Old Man Par. Even
so, II he never hits a serious ball after
he has passed two score years in age
| he will break the record of another
great Georgian. TYrus Raymond Cobb
elected unanimously in Georgia and by
large majority in other sections OF
the country, the greatest player base
ball has produced.
Has Chance for Record.
| Ty is now playing his twenty-fourth
year of major league base ball at slight
| lv more than 40 When Robert Tyre
Jones is 20 he viii have played major
league golf for 26 years. The Bobby oi
today Is better than was the Bobby OF
l ENro YHTnG AZ fret
championship.
George Duncan, the fast moving
Scot, predicted in 1922 that Jones al
80 would be a better golfer than he
was at 20. With four years to go
"Rubbertire," as the pros call him, ap-
parently is about to show that Dun
cans forecasts are as good as his ad-
vice to putters to hit the ball anc
knock 1t in the hole"
I Bobby at the moment is much heav.
| ier than he win be when he steps or
the first tee at Olympia Fields to make
another bid for the national oper
championship. II put 1t on In the Win
ter and golf it of in the Summer" he
explained. Not all of 1t fades away
from the walking either. The nervou;
energy expended in serious competi-
| ton burns a lot of flesh away"
In this Bobby finds himself in agree
ment with Frank Frisch, the former
| Fordham and Giant star, now doing
his flashing for ST. Louis. FriSch was
happy when he was able to start the
current season overweight. when mos
Of his fellows were trying TO get the
| pounds of.
Must Use Your Head.
Golf, you know, Is played up here :
said Bobby. pointing to his head. u
do not think ones physical condition
| Is very important OF course the eye
sight must be good. but If you can see
| and think a little bit ii seems to me
| you can play. don't worry about my
| weight. I let that take care of itself
It always haS-So far"
| Bobby. who Is playing a series of ex-
hibition matches for the benefit Of the
| Olympic games fund, may lose much
| OF his excess tonnage before he starts
to warm up for the years big cham
| pionShipS He pulled his way over the
| mountainous course of the Baltimore
Country Club Sunday and was glad TO
/ call II O. day at the eighteenth green,
although. with Watts Gum. he was all
| square with Warren Corkran and Rol-
and Mackenzie. The attractive, though
Furnishing. Baltimore course must have
made him think Of his native Georgia.
where Sidney Lanier sang of the hills
of Habersham and the marshes Of
Glynn. The hills grew and three days
OF rain furnished the marshes.
| In his match at Baltimore he played
/ like Jones until he got to the green's.
| but viewed from q normal Jones angle
he might as well have left his famous