New Britain herald., 1929-07-01
Special to the Herald) (Ry ,JIGGER)

(By JIGGER)
 Mamaroneck, N. Y, July 1-Nln- ming the U. s. open for the third time in his brilliant golfing career. Robert T. Jones, Jr., of Atlanta. shot two of the finest rounds he ever put together in the big event, to defeat Al Espinosa yesterday in the pay-off at Winged Foot and thereby clinched the question of who is the greatest golfer in the world.
 Going out in the morning in 37. enc over par, Bobby came home in 35 to give him a card of 72 which is perfect golf at the difficult Ma maroneck course.
 The match might just as we'll had established lead of 12 strokes over Espinosa and no mortal golfer could catch him in IS more holes.
 After lunch, which consisted of toast and tea for the great amateur, he added II more strokes to his rec ord breaking lead, by equalling his first days round of 69.
 Saturday Al Espinosa won s1,00o in prize money by playing a tie with Bobby Jones and Sunday morn ing he lost all chance of being crowned the champion golfer of America.
 An eight at the 12th hole Satur- day, which he duplicated Sunday morning in the play-off, cost Es- pinosa the championship and put the skids under him, yesterday. Saturday he recovered from the ing down to defeat long before he shot from the 12th tee toward the fatal hole. While a pushed ball started his trouble the first time, 1t was hooked ball out of bounds. which cost him a stroke and dis tance and finished what little hope he had of beating the golfer most feared by the pros.
 Twelve Hoodoo
 The number 12 will stand out in Espinosa mind as the hoodoo of the 1929 open. The 18th hole was his jinx and the Chicago pro was 12 strokes behind Jones at the end of the first round of the play-off.
 Two eights by a man who had played the first two rounds, tive under par, was a sad spectacle. The second one, coming when the anna teur was working miracles with his clubs, made a farce out of what started out to be the greatest goli drama of the season. It was a sac fate that gave Espinosa S4-S0 tt match against Jones' 72-69.
 The sad, sad story of Espinosa's flop does not start with the frs bad eight at the 18th hole. The real pathos of the Castillian's fal from golfing grace started at the 11th green.
 There his putt for birdie three trimmed the cup but stopped deat to the hole It was the sort of put to tap in without fuss or delay. Bu Espinosa departed from his custom in such cases and fused around The result was that he missed i and took a five. Right there he los the crown most coveted by pro anc amateur. That IS inches of mis- cost the swarthy Spaniard an esti mated s5o,ooo, for the open is sait to be worth that to any professiona who wins it.
 At the time Espinosa did no , know the value of that putt, bn , just the same it unnerved him. An( when he sliced from the next te !, into the rough and his ball came t. rest on the side of trap. his judg ment was not cool. He chose spoon to play bad uphill lie ant pulled the shot directly across tn fairway and into another bunker From there ne crossed the nea edge of the green into another trar he consumed three more stroke with butts.
 Trouble on First
 Jones' only serious trouble was O the first hole where he mussed Il his approach, took four to get O lHS SIetll dllu Itlull GU l"o putt for a six. On the 18th hole h suffered when he hooked in tn woods for an unplayable lie whic cost him two strokes for a si, .. Otherwise he was threes and four 0 for the second nine.
 ' One Dramatic Moment Q There was only one dramati 0 moment for Jones in the round tha <" gave him the tie with Espinosa, hi n last putt on the 36th hole Saturda, 0 His rival had finished and Jone 9 needed only a IS to win. But fat V willed that the man who lost tn 1 open last year after tying with
 putt on the final hole, must sink
 putt of nine feet for another oppol tunity to win Americas golf classi [ All the settings appropriate to tn $ dramatic moment surrounded tn ,. home green. Ten thousand peopl :: banked the stage, many of whol r. had been there all the afternoon l. L. t,t