Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-21
SAYS W|NCEDFOOT
is RIGHT FOR BOBBY
Alex Thinks Southerner Will
Win Open Easily if He
Is on His Game.
BY WALTER R. McCALLuM.

A LEX SANDY ARMOUR, vet
~ eran professional at the Con-
"A gressional Country Club. and
4 4 one of the closest students of
the game we know, comes out
datfooted with the prediction that II
Bobby Jones Is anywhere near the peak
of the game he usually brings to the
open championship he will win with
strokes to spare.
: Listen to Sandy Armour's explanation
OF why he thinks Jones has a great
chance to win: THE course is not so
tight from the tee, so Jones may get
into q hooking streak and not be too
badly on. The greens are closely trapped,
and they are small in size But most
people have overlooked the fact that the
way to play them is from right to left.
And Jones Is master at drawing the
ball in from the right side Of the line.
Furthermore he has great control of the
intermediate iron shots, and can make
the ball sit down on small green just
as well as on large green. He always
has been great putter at distances
from 10 feet down, and with such small
targets to shoot at as the green's at
Winged Foot, he will be getting the
ball as close to the pin as any one
Then he can knock them in as we'll
as the best man in the field. Yes, l
think Jones Is the outstanding bet to
win again this year, If he Is anywhere
near the Jones of other years. Throw
out those yarns about how badly Jones
Is playing before the championship.
They always come out and they are
always wrong. Jones Is Jones and he
can key his game up to championship
pitch without much effort. look for
him to be in the struggle up to the last
hole and to be the best bet to win"
Quite few Washingtonians are plan
ming to go to New York to see the big
title chase. Gene Larkin and Fred Nc
1eod, the two local Qualifiers, are to
leave the Capital Sunday night for the
Winged Foot battlefield, which will en-
able them to get IN three days of prac-
tice in advance of the war which starts
next Thursday. Clyde B. Asher, Sher-
man Ford and several other members of
Columbia, Alex Armour and few Con-
gressional members and several others
are planning to make the trip to see
what looks like one of the hottest
championships of the last decade.
Armour, who Is great student of the
rules of golf, had a question put to him.
the other day that was the most In
Volved matter he had ever attempted
to wrestle with regarding the rules of
the game. One of the members of Con-
gresSional, whose name. he did not re-
veal. was playing the fourteenth hole
in a four.ball match. He hit high
shot from the tee. which Travelled to
the left and appeared to have gone out
of bounds. So he drove provisional
ball, as the rules provide.
The player and his caddie moved to
the spot where the first bali was struck
and could not find it. So he played the
provisional ball, and knocked that out
of bounds. And then he played an
other ball. Meanwhile another caddie
had found his first ball In bounds, and
he played 1t and knocked 1t out of
bounds. And he played another bail
from the spot where he had played the
first ball BY this time the situation
had become so hopelessly tangled up
that all the wisdom of Socrates could
not untangle the tumble. Armour had
to rule that ne lost the hole, for the
situation was hopelessly tangled up.