Evening star., 1929-06-29
JONES SCORES 215
/. TO TAKE OPEN LEAD
Sarazen Second, With 218,
at End of Third
Round.
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for the 8. Card:
Jones, outs 8 S 5 8 3 4 3-35
/ Jones played his tee shot perfectly tC
the difficult 190-yard tenth. lie went
boldly for the cup, but missed and
took 8.
The rolling eleventh offered no OBJ.
stacles. but Bobby's bid for birdie
from feet missed by All inch and he
took a.
The Georgian played a perfect tee
shot Of 270 yards to open up the
twelfth green. Electing to play safe
with an iron. Bobby was short, but
chipped in well and sank a flve-footer
for birdie 4. This put him two under
par
Through solid lines Jones' tee SHOT
to the hazardous 2l3-yard thirteenth
was short and rolled into the edge of
a trap. He exploded IS feet short of
the pin and took 4.
| On the 376-yard fourteenth Jones
split the middle with his tee shot. His
| pitch was straight, but hit the green
4 rs feet short of the cup. The putt
! for birdie curled off and missed by
two inches.
Two Perfect Shots.
Two perfect shots put Bobby we'll on
+, the 397-yard fifteenth with a 30-footer
| over the rolling green to shoot for. He
got his 4 to stay / under par for the
| route.
Bobby hooked his drive on the six
| teenth. hitting a tree. 1t carried bare
| ly 200 yards, but bounded well back into
the fairway. Playing safe, he smashed
long iron just short OF a trap border
| ing the green, but his chip up was weak.
He got his par 5.
Bobby split the pin with his second
shot to the seventeenth. He missed
the 6-footer and took 4.
Needing only par for II, Bobby
| slashed fine drive down the center,
| but his pitch was short, hit the slope
and rolled back is yards off the green.
! He chipped up dead and got his 4, any
| way, TO score II.
Jones:
In--3 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 4-36-71-215.
Two Over Par.
Gene Sarazen began his round
| 5--4-4, 2 over par.
Gene Sarazen slipped / over par at
| the first hole when he took after
! being twice in the rough and taking 3
20 reach the green.
He took a par 4 at the second. his
drive and pitch being as straight as
the proverbial string all the way.
He hit fine iron from the tee smack
! OU lIlE kICGIl, buH bOOh tAhOt PutSo
| from 40 feet and was 2 over par for
| three holes At the fourth Sarazen
pushed his second, an iron, into patch
| of woods close to a tree. but he came
| out in grand shape and got down a
putt from is feet for 'his.par 4.
| He tried to cut corner at the long
| fifth, but made it too fine and was in
bad roughs unable to go for the green.
He had to play out on the fairway with
out regard to distance. He sent his
| third on the green 40 feet from the
cup and was down in puts for par 5.
! He was / over par with at the sixth.
/ The wind caught Sarazen's secone
| at the sixth and carried the ball into 9
! trap at the green. He played gooc
| explosion shot IL feet from the cur
and. two puts gave his a S.
He sent his tee shot eight feet from
the cup at the 170-yard seventh, but
the putt stayed out and he had par 3
1 In the Rough from the tee at the
| eighth. Gene reached the back side or
! the green with his second and laid hi:
approach putt dead for the par 4. He
again drove to rough at the ninth anc
found his ball in the grass, ankle deep
| He took his spoon and made his best
| shot of the round. sending the ball
| through the leaves Of tree almost Il
] the green. He ran on and had a lont
! putt for the birdie and n!ne-holt
score OF 38.
SarazenS card:
Out ,..........5 4 4 4 5 5 3 4 4-3t
Sarazens tee shot was close to g
tree at the tenth and he had to make
a great shot to reach the green. His
long putt would not drop and he was
| down in 4 for the par 3 hole.
After driving to rough at the eleventh
Sarazen got a great 4 with pitch, vel
on the green and two puts.
Gene was on the fairway from the
1 tee at the par twelfth, but sent his
second to rough. He made his usua
good recovery and was % feet from
| the cup in 3. He took par 5.
| In strong crcss-wind Sarazen sent
No. iron to the 213-yard thirteenth
and got an easy par g.,
| Takes Two Puts.
Sarazen's drive at the fourteenth was
long and straight, and he pitched on
easily to take two puts, the last from
2 feet, for par 4. At the fifteenth
/ Genes second found trap and was in
| deep sand. He made sensational re-
covery 8 feet from the cup, but the putt
played out, and he took S.
At the par sixteenth his second hi
a tree and the ball fell into a trap. but
|
! feet from the Gun and got the putt
down for his birdie 4. At the seven.
teenth he sent his second spinning tC
within 10 feet of the cup. but his putt
was inches short, and he had a par 4
leaving 4 for rs.
Gene hit long drive at the eight
! zenith. his best tee shct Of the round
His pitch was IS feet past the cup. He
missed a 3-footer and took for tn,
hole and 76 for the round.
His card:
Sarazen. in. ..445345445-76-21s
The former open champion was no
hitting his long iron shots and wa,
often wild from the tee Time afte,
time he found himself in trouble anc
only his ability to recover kept hi
score down. His marvellous puttins
touch of yesterday was not in the bas
todav. He was able to get down only
two long puts and against this he hac
two three-putt greens, the third where
he reached the green from the tee ant
the eighteenth where an over-bold an.
proach left him far above the cup.
Third round Scores.
Dan Williams, Westf1eld, N. j., 1874
1882.
Thomas j. Harmon, jr, Montclair. N
j., l57-79-236.
Willie MacFarlane, Tuckahoe, N. Y.
157-76-233.
Roland Mackenzie, Columbia, l57-
84-241
Charles Hilgendorf, Grossepoint
Mich, 15l.-75-226.
Horton Smith, Joplin, Mo-, 153-
74-227.
Jack Burke, Houston, Tex, 1877
74--23l.
Jack Leach, Bloomfield, N. j., 1877
| 83-240.
, Jack White, Scotland. 1853; withdrew
Louis Chiapetta, Hartford, Conn
; 157-72-229
! Jimmy Thompson, Knoxville, Tenn
| 1S5-7Q-02A