New Britain herald., 1929-08-31
JONES SHOOTS 67
 AT PEBBLE BEACH
Beats Par by Five Strokes and Own Course Record by Three

America or England, New York or California-it's all the same to Bobby Jones.
 The well known allmnus of Geor- Sia Tech, seemingly bent on causing more disturbance in the Golden West than the whole Tech eleven did last New Years Day on the sridiron, already has stolen the re- hearsals for the national amateur solf championship. He seems des- tined to steal the main show that Lcglns Monday.
 The four time American amateur king and three-time open champion brought this practice week to a eli max yesterday on the Pebble Beach course with a sCintlllating CT, beat ing par by five strokes and hls own course record by three shots.
 In subduing the widely ballYhooed terrors of this famous course, with it's chasms and cliffs, it's bunkerS and it's fairways skirting the spark ling ocean blue, Jones shot one of the greatest rounds of his career. Nothing particular was at stake be- yond the battle between the world s
 greatest golfers and the formidable layout that previously had resisted all attempts to crack 70. Jones al ready had weakened its endurance,
 perhaps, by scoring that figure three aays ago. Yesterday he landed the knockout.
 This round was all that was need ed to clinCh the preliminary argu- ment for the Georgia lawyer. No one knows better than Bobby him. self that record breaking rounds Tn practice do not win championship where the hazards are greater and more frequent. He may yet have a fight on his hands before the main rattle of Pebble Beach is concluded,
 but it is as difficult to convince any Californian that he will not breeze through the tournament for the fifth
 time as it is to have the same Cali
 fornian admit there are any flaws in the climate.
 The coming of Jones. along with the first amateur title tournament
 ever held on the Pacific coast, has aroused greater interest than any
 previous sporting event in the Gold
 en states history. The experts all
 admit this. All that was needed, to satisfy the most conservative or
 0 4
 round he did yesterday. The gallery of fully 1000, that was as thrilled by his performance as though it was in championship competitor also appeared to be willing to crown him king again on the spot
 A few of the salient features Of this round illustrated the pace Jones struck. His only mistakes
 were on the second hole, where he took two shots in a trap, and on the third, where he required three
 butts to get down. Thereafter, one
 of the greatest exhibitions of putting he has ever given with his celebrat- ed Calamity Jane" helped him tc
 bag seven birdies. score nine sue. | cessive holes in 2S. and cover the l treacherous incoming nine hole ir 32, tour under par. Bobby missed i a seven foot putt on the home green for a 66 after belting two wonder full wood shots along the oceans 540-yard green.
 Jones was playing in foursome with Harrison R. Johnston, Eustace
 Storey and Cyril Tolley British champion, as well as one of the games most terrific hitters. Tolley
 was wild, but even when he was on
 the line he was frequently outdriver
 by Jones' it seemed that any time
 Bobby let out with the wood he out
 shot his famous British rival, who was no match for the American on
 the greens and took an approximate 79. The Georgian sank five puts ranging from ten to forty feet. yet it was only a day or so ago he was protesting that he couldn't putt. The effect of Jones' great round was to widen today the gap separat- ing the champion from the rest Of the field There have been some other fine performances in practice 1 George Won Elm. Phillips Finlay the former Harvard star now rep
 resenting California: George Noigt of New York. and two of Oregon's best, Dr. 0. F. Willing and Don Moe the western champion, all have scores around 71 to 7S. Threaten ing, also, are Jess Sweetser Jimmy" Johnston Johnny Me Hugh, and Jack Neville. the latter two among California's hopes, but Pebble Beach's terrors unquestion- ably exist for the main part of the field, even if not for Jones.
 The prospect now is that not many more than 40 will start in the qualifying play which consists
 of IS holes next Monday and an
 other IS on Tuesday to decide the
 S2 participants in match play Wed nesday. Already 5 names have been scratched from the original field of 162.
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