Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
BOBBY HAS THORNy
JOURNEY ON COAST
Any One Able to Beat Him
Doubtless Will Annex
Championship.
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.

7HE player who defeats Body
Jones at Pebble Beach the
first week of September likely
A will be next amateur golf cham
pion of the United States. It
Is a matter of golf history that when
Jones is beaten in the amateur his con-
queror usually captures the title or at
least reaches the finals.
In IL amateur championships Jones
has been beaten seven times. Four OF
the men to defeat him have captured
the title; two others were flnalists, while
the seventh reached the semi finals.
Which may lend some encouragement:
to the fellows who will draw the job
of trying to prevent Robert Tyre from
winning his fifth amateur crown.
It was Bob Gardner who stopped the
hrst rush of Jones in 1916, when the
14-year-old youngster came up from
Atlanta to become the sensation of the
qualifying rounds and then beat E. M.
Byers and Fred Dyer. Gardner whaled
Jones and then advanced to the finals,
where he was beaten by Chick Evans.
Worst Beating From Sweetser.
When the next championship was
played at Oakmont, in 1919, Bobby
plowed his way into the finals, where
he was beaten by S. Davidson Heron.
The following year 1t was Francis Oui-
met who halted Bobby in a semi-final
match, and the Boston star was beaten
by Chick Evans. At st. Louis, In 1921,
1t was Will Hunter who defeated the
pion did not fare so well as others and
was dropped in Semi-finalS. In 1922,
when Jones was the hot favorite, he
brushed against Jess Sweetser In the
semi-finals at Brookline and took the
worst beating of his life. It's q matter
of history that Bobby was 6 down at
the end of holes and still 5 down
after coming home in "a. Sweetser
won the championship by beating Chick
Evans.
Jones won his first open in 1928, but
that availed him nothing at Flossmoor
for he was dumped in the second round
by Max MarSton. His early exit that
year ended Jones' long losing streak
and he has lost just one match since.
That was to George Won Elm in 1925,
when the Blond Uhlan won the title
ut BaltuSrol.
In II championships Bobby has won
10 matches and has taken % OF his
last "a, which stands as one of the
times he has been medalist in the cham
pionship and only once, 1921, has his
qualifying score been over 149.
Bobby has played Francis Ouimet
more often than any other amateur
rival, and the BoStonian is looking for
ward to another meeting at Pebble
Beach. Four times have Bob and
Francis clashed and on three OF the
occasions Jones was the victor. In
their first meeting at the Engineers,
Ouimet defeated Bobby but since then
Jones has repaid the debt with inter-
est.
Jones also has encountered Bob
Gardner and George Won Elm in three
championships. Gardner took the
Georgian in the first meeting, but Bobby
defeated him in 1919 and 1922. His
duels with Won Elm all have occurred
since 1928. He defeated George in the
finals of 1924 to win his first amateur
title. and checked the DetToiter In
semi-final the following Summer. But
in the third meeting the palm went to
Won Elm. A fourth duel between Jones
and Won Elm Is quite likely to occur at
Pebble Beach.
The golf emigration to the Pacific
Coast now Is in full swing and most OF
the contestants in the 1929 amateur
will be at Pebble Beach by the end
of next week. Jones and his party
start for Los Angeles on Sunday; Toll
arrive on the Coast late next week and
others are going across country.
California Dark Horses.
Californians have started to back
Jack Neville and Johnny McHugh as
possible dark horses In the battle to
stop Jones. Neville has been California
State champion five times and Is said
to be playing the best golf Of his career.
Neville lives at Pebble Beach and knows
every inch of the course.
McHugh has done some rigorous
training for the championship. He has
tackled on some additional pounds and
has been averaging 73 over the most
diff1cult course in California. With
those two fellows and Phil Finley going
at top speed, native sons are quite GER
tain that Jones and all Eastern players
will have some dif1culty with the Pa
cific Coast delegation.