Evening star., 1929-06-30

like his conquistador ancestors fought
With delicate touch, he combines the
strength of Castilian bull.
Sarazan was out in Al and had
dropped shots to Jones, virtually
counted out of the championship.
back. That left only ESpinosa, Jones
and Shute, and it seemed that the
Ohio lad was cracking too badly to
figure. Jones had at the short
tenth. so did Espinosa. Jones missed
putt of loss than 2 feet at the
eleventh for a birdie and Espinosa
took 5.
Then came Espinosa's big blow-up.
A hooked tee shot at the long twelfth
where the bunkers loom up like the
sand dunes Of the Virginia ocean front
and a badly hooked second which found
trap on the thirteenth fairway, left
bunker to the green. He put the ball
in a trap near the green, took Q to
get out and then took 3 puts for the
s, Did he quit there? He did not
Instead of that he buckled down to
business Of retrieving that ana sue
ceeded. His birdie 3 on the seventeenth
gave him his chance and he would have
won the eighteenth had his putt
stayed in.
Bobby Gets in Trouble.
Meanwhile out behind him was the
Jones boy. fighting to keep out OF the
trans and getting into other kinds OF
trouble. He missed a 15-footer for
birdie 4 at the twelfth, put his tee shot
far over the green at the short thir-
teenth for 4. and got his par at the
fourteenth. Then came his Waterloo.
that fearsome fifteenth, where the Dali
must be kept well to the left to gave an
onen shot to the green. He pushed ms
tee shot badly to the woods which fringe
the fifteenth fairway, Clipped out on
the fairway, and missed his third snot,
putting it to the right of the green ana
knocked his fourth shot over the green.
He was lust on with his fifth and man
aged to hole out in two puts. As II
that wasn't enough Bobby made hash
of the sixteenth, par affair which Is
not a 5, but should be 4. He knocked
the ball so far from the tee that ne got
home with spade mashie ana NAG =
putt Of only 10 feet for an eagle 3. But
his approach putt was weak and he
blew a putt Of a yard for his 4. 1t
isn't like the Jones boy to do these
things. When he gets them down they
usually stay down. He usually Is q re-
lentless lad and does not leave openings
like that But today's round was dill
ferent. That eighth hole ate through
his nerves like acid and he struggled
all the way to make up that z. he
finished with brace of As. and what
q 4 that last hole was! His second shot
ran across the green on to q grassy slope
and he made a weak-kneed chip shot
which left him a 12-footer. The putt
barely staggered in to tie Espinosa.
All that had gone before with young
Shute came to a climax at the fifteenth.
Here Jack Forester. with whom he had
played over the final day, took the
youngster aside and told him what he
had to do to win. Cool Of countenance,
unsmiling as always Shute hit high
tee shot into the wind at the fifteenth
which bounced on rock and left nim
a playable shot to the green. He
knocked it out into strip Of rough
which bisects the fairway, and got
5.
He then was one shot back Of Jones,
needing three As to tie. And he hit
the ball fully $40 yards on the sixteenth,
leaving him a shot which he hadn't
had before in the championship. Chris
Dunphy, former Washington amateur,
was his gallery marshal. The lad struck
that, ball truly for the pin. What he
wanted no tie. But the ball hit on the
back edge of the green and bounced
over. A weak chip shot gave him par
S. And Dunphy said he knocked his
tee shot so far he didn't know how to
play the shot. Perhaps he was right,
for Shute played 1t with a mashie
niblick on q par hole. So then he
had birdie and par to tie. His putt
for a on the seventeenth just brushed
past the lip of the cup and he over
pitched the eighteenth to take a and
I.a~ H. d r~,fk6 Co for
third position.
Mackenzie Ends 45th.
Roland Mackenzie, Columbia anna
teur, finished the final day with "a and
78 to take forty-flfth place. He will
have to qualify again next year.
or course, every one knows who Bob
figure to most golfers. Last year he
went to Kansas City and won the Mid
American open championship. Last
Fan he won the qualifying round In the
professional match play tournament at
Baltimore and went to the final round,
where Leo Diegel beat him. This year
he has been playing particularly well.
He told George Won Elm he never had
been hitting the ball as well as he had
been hitting it in this championship.
And the result of the final day shows
he is right
His ancestors came to California in
an immigrant ship back in the seven
teenth century. He has four brothers
and sister and all are golf profess
sionals.
The present tie is the fourth in which
Jones, admittedly the greatest golfer OF
the present day, will have figured. He
tied with Bobby Cruickshank at Inwood
in 1923 and won on the playoh. He
tied with Willie Macfarlane at Worces-
ter In 1925 and lost on the playof. He
tied again with John Farrell last year
at Chicago and lost on the playoff. He
is due, If the law of averages means
anything, to win tomorrow. His round
of 79 today is the worst he ever has
played in an open championship. The
young colossus of golf took 10 in the
third round for the open at Columbus
in 1925, but he went ahead to win when
Joe Tirnesa cracked. His round OF 70
this afternoon was his worst In any
championship. He said so himself, SO
1t must be So It isn't often that the
Jones boy takes a brace Of Sevens in
any round of golf. But he did it today,
at time when he had the champion
ship safely tucked away.
Jones rounds in this championship
were SO, rs, II and 70. Espinosa's
rounds were 10. 72. n and rs.
Who will win? Were we to be asked
we should say Jones will win. The odds
favor him because playoffs for the open
are an old story to him. But there Is
an old golf axiom which cautions one
not TO bet against professionals. And
Espinosa makes his living at the game.
Nevertheless Jones should win for he