Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-13

Another golf championship for Robert
! Jones of Atlanta-the American open,
/ for the third time-is the occasion for
universal tributes to his marvellous skill
and a general tendency to proclaim him
the greatest player the world has seen.
only the nine muses. themselves,
with all the Olympians joining in, could
do poetic justice to the victories nine
that laurel the modest brow OF the
| worlds greatest golfer-greatest ana
most beloved" proudly declares the At
larlta Journal. "Superlative excellence
In any realm wins applause, yet too ire
quently an applause mixed with envy or
Swallowed by the victor's self-regaro.
But in the knightly field of golf there
are no heartburnings, and when Bob
by' Jones lifts his lance, 1t is as orllnant
as young Ivanhoe's and as gracious"
Speaking of Atlanta's welcome nome
to the victor. the Saginaw Daily News
saws: mo long list OF speakers was ar
ranged to respond and to keep the
champion right here until he grew 700
old and feeble to play any more. Inose
Atlanta folk just turned out by com
mon consent. informally made their
wav to the railroad station at which the
hero arrived, cheered him joyously and
uproariously, and hindered him not at
ali in making his way to his waiting car
and driving home to his family.
"'About this time says the Old
Farmers Almanac, look out for Bobby
Jones and prepare an editorial on ms
winning another golf championship,
remarks the San Francisco Chronicle
I'VE find the oracle as infalllole as olo
earlier generations on the Atlantic Coast
and in the Mississippi Valley, which
needed the warning. About this time OF
year look out for thunderstorms.
Bobbys championship is about as GER
tain As the thunderstorms.
The glory of Jones latest victory Is not
in the surprising margin OF ~ strokes
by which ne defeated the surviving pro-
fessional in the 36-hole play-off. That
margin represented Espinosa at his
worst. But 1t also represented Jones at
80 nearly his best that it sustains the
widely held judgment that he Is the
greatest golfer the game has ever
known.
I'VE suppose there are thousands OF
small bows and also thousands OF other
BOYS who are neither small nor old"
the Ottawa Journal observes, who
would rather be Bobby Jones than
Prime Minister of Canada. In any event,
we would like to be Bobby. 1t is not
golf championship for the third time:
we don't care about that. What we are
thinking Of Ia that nine-hole score Of
his in 81. The thing is almost in
credible. The very best golfers are al
lowed two puts on each green. Giving
them to Jones assuming that he took
them, the result seen Is that he was
required to hit the ball only 10 times
with other clubs on the nine holes. The
thing is more than incredible. 1t Is
miraculous. We doubt whether
there is anybody living who can cope
with Bobby Jones"
THE greatest golf player Of all time"
and "pre-eminence greater than that Of
the acknowledged leader Of any other
sport today are distinctions accorded
the champion by the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, while the Rochester Democrat
and Chronicle says Of the concluding
event in the contest: Although many
golfing dubs whose ambition is to break
90 would be thankful to get the worst
scores hung up In the tournament
and especially the 80 and 81 of Espi-
nosa-they will md encouragement
from the in-and-out records of the
stars of the games. These had their
bad DAYS, as well as their good-drove
into traps, sliced In the rough, missed
easy puts, all with quite amateurish
frequency. II must be that nobody ever
gets 10 be perfect at the dog-goned
game; nobody, that 10, except Bobby
Jones'"
saws the Cincinnati Times-Star. but
the sight of that human mechanism
called Bonhy Jones moving along re-
lentlessly % victory overwhelmed Espi-