Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-01
ESPINOSA OFF
FORM SUNDAY
Jones % Stroke to Good
In 72-Hole Match
Play-Off
BY BRIAN BELL

NEOOOG1aICu AACOD ORO1 70 DAASNAH
MAMARONECK, N. T., July l.
P-Robert t. Jones, Jr., started
back home to his Atlanta law office
today with the open golf champion
ship cup Bobby Jones won in a
play-off for the title. The South
ern city today is the golf capital OF
the United States, for BObby's third
victory in the open comes when the
amateur championship cup is pay
ing a visit of a year to the club
house of the East Lake club, country
home of the Atlanta Athletic club,
for the fourth time.
In winning his third champion
ship, the great Jones played golf as
only he "a play it.
II saw it, but I still don't believe
it," said a golfer of ability after the
king Of amateurs had defeated Al.
Espinosa. a clever professional, by
% strokes in a 36 hole play-off over
the trap invested west course of the
Winged Foot golf club.
Plays Poorly
In the closing round of the cham
pionship Saturday, Bobby blew"
the title by taking two terrible sew
ems on pal four holes with a 10 on
his fourth round for a 72-hole total
Of 294. He used up his stock of
sevens then and there. He had two
skies in the play-off, one as a re-
suit Of a two-stroke penalty. but to
offset these black marks were 20
fours, nine threes, four fives and
one two.
Never has a championship been
decided by such a one-sided score.
Jones margin Of victory was %
strokes, a 36-ho1e total Of 141 to 164
for Espinosa. The courageous Chi
cage professional, outclassed by
Jones' better than perfect golf, went
down, but he never quit. He began
to slip early in the day and grew
steadily worse but he never lost his
smile and there was no suggestion Of
anything but sincere admiration for
a great golfer as he wrung Bobby's
hand in congratulation at the Seth
green.
Al. Fritters
Al. never did get going and could
not break" eighty. He had a bad
round of "a in the morning, taking
As strokes on the second nine. In
the afternoon his best was a even
80.
The amateur champion, after a
wobbly start, going three strokes
over par on the first three holes, hit
the Jones stride and it was all over.
After a wild six on the par four
first hole, his consistent jinX during
the championship, he slipped over
par again at the short third to take
four. Thereafter his slips were few
and far between. Out in 81 one over
bar, in spite Of his starting six, he
clipped a stroke from par coming
home to score u, an exacting par
figure. The IS for the some-coming
journey was even more remarkable
in that it incldued a six at the 18th
hole, where his tee shot came to
rest under a bush, and he had to
take it out with a penalty Of two
strokes.
Bobby Shines
The real Jones brand of golf dis
played in the afternoon, when he
held par even for the first nine
holes and then drove the exacting
old man to cover in a complete rout
with 33 on the second nine, ali
threes and fours-three threes and
six tours. If AL. had not removed
himself from active competition in
the morning when he raj IL strokes
in arrears, he would have been
Toured to death" in the afternoon.
Jones has won nine national
championships in the United States
and Great Britain. Besides three
American open triumphs, he has
won the y. S. amateur crown four
times and the British open twice, all
within seven years.