Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-25
FARRELL-JONES CARDS
IN PLAY-0FF FOR TITLE
AFTERNOON ROUND.

missed his bid for q half the match
again was squared. The gallery. mean
while, had grown to 1000, charging
and milling all over the restricted space
between the thirteenth green, four
tenth tee, and fifteenth green and six
tenth tee They sensed the thrills In
prospect as q tied match doomed.
The roar of the crowd sounded in
the ears of both as they drove down
the tree-lined fourteenth. where Jones
cracked out one of his longest Of the
round. But Johnny, fiawless, cool and
collected as ever a champion was,
played spoon shot Is feet to the left
of the pin, and Jones was lucky TO get
a half even though he had but a
mashie to the green.
Jones Luck in Evidence.
The traditional Jones luck came into
play at the long fifteenth, for here
Bobbys sliced tee shot hit two spec
tators, and instead of Slicing out of
bounds, dropped in the edge of the
rough. They halved the hole in SIS.
Then came the big break. The six
tenth is a great short hole of i53
yards. surrounded by bunkers. with a
tee shot over a creek. Here Farrell
played one Is feet short of the pin,
and Jones, going boldly for the flag,
ended on bank at the back edge of
the green. Bobby was away and chip
putted up and missed his 2 by the width
of his putter blade, getting a 3. Care
fully sighting his putt for the half,
Jones played and just brushed by the
edge of the cup. Farrell led by one
stroke going to the seventeenth, and
Clyde Asher remarked that the cham
pionship was in. for Jones had not
played the eighteenth well In any
round of the tournament.
And here at this seventeenth green,
banked around with towering oak trees,
where Roland Hancock threw the
championship away Saturday. came the
greatest thrill Of all Johnny Farrell
played great shot from the rough
which ended feet to. the right Of the
pin. and Jones put his second 80 feet
to the left. Silence gripped the gallery
as Jones lined up his putt II Johnny
sank his and Jones missed. two-shot
deficit was too much to overcome. But
Jones the Great, coming through with
the courage Of a real champion. holed
the greatest putt of his championship
career for a birdie 3. Johnny non
chalantly roled his 4-footer, not a whit
disturbed by the putt of the great
Albanian.
They went TO the last hole a stroke
apart, the professional in the lead and
grimneSs lining the face of America S
amateur king. Johnny faded his tee
shot behind bunker at the right de-
termined not 10 get In the bad spot to
the left. Bobby cracked out one of his
best, $50 yarder that split the mid
die Of the fairway Johnny played a
spoon from the rough at the right TO
the rough ut the left so yards short
OF the green. Bobby stepped up and
cracked out high hook that hit on the
green and kicked over bank at the
left edge.
Gallery marshals claimed that police
man had kicked Jones ball toward the
green into bad lie, and after all the
rules IN the calendar had been looked
over by the noguls. they decided that
Bobby could drop. Then Johnny played
a mashie shot seven feet short OF the
pin, even while the photographers
wound their cranks for the shot that
might decide the championship. Bobby
then Clipped over mound within
three feet Of the pin.
Long and carefully Farrell sighted
the putt. The pressure was on him
heavily. bearing down with every move
ment OF his well museled figure. He
addressed the ball, camera clicked
and he stepped away
One Of the committeeman warned
the eameramen to take no more pic
lures, and Johnny putted. For moment
It looked as II he had missed But the
ball ran up 10 the left edge OF the cup.
hesitated moment and then dropped
in
Jones putt meant nothing. for Far
feii had won. and Jones Immediately
stepped across the green and con-
graduated the new champion.
Then Johnny was np-whigh UPON
the shoulders Of the crowd Gene Sara
zen the anchor man Ia the triple human
pyramid that carried him To the club
house. His caddie, too, was high up on
the shoulders Of the admiring gallery
The worthy eadd.e Of worthy cham
pion
John Farrell played the last -four
rounds OF the championship including
the SO hole play Of IN exactly 28f
strokes, which ties the record for The
! tile made by Chick Evans IN 1915
Any one who can say that Farrell Is not
worthy champion must bow TO this
| His last -four rounds Of the title chase
| were n, ~, 10 and 10. for a total oi
286 over a course whose par - 2a4
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