Evening star., 1929-09-01
LINKS EVENT SEEN
AS ONE-MANS SHOW
Natives, After Seeing Bobby
in Record Feat, Can't
See Any One Else.
BY ALLAN ]. GOULD,

the main water hazard, with
- the mountains of the Monterey
Peninsula for back drop and
stock tickers that begin buzzing not
far from the eighteenth green by
am, the thirty-third national amateur
golf championship of the United States
will be played next week.
There may be tougher courses than
picturesque Pebble Beach. where the
tournament will be played in the Far
West for the first time, but few, if any,
ever offered setting Of rarer natural
beauty than this pleasure spot of the
Golden State. 1t has attracted one
OF the greatest fields in years, with the
stars of Great Britain and Canada as
well as America on hand, but so far
as all the advance ballyhoo and fantasy
is concerned the tournament is a one
man show with Bobby Jones picked to
play the main role.
CALIFORNIA; climate and beauties
may capture the visitors eye, the haz-
ards of Pebble Beach may capture the
well meaning shots of most contestants.
but Jones has captivated the whole Far
West by the brilliancy of the worlds
most effective individual golf game. It
has taken just few practice rounds,
one of which happened to lower the
Pebble Beach record to 81. five under
par, to make the famous Georgian so
outstanding a favorite that the natives
have all but lost sight of the rest of
fine field of contenders. However.
he had rs today.
New to Californians.
The East and South have become ac-
customed to seeing Jones pitted against
the field, in open or amateur champion
ship play, but it is a new thrill for the
far West and California is making the
most of lionizing the Georgia shot
maker. Fickle game as golf may be,
and none knows it better than Bobby
himself, Californians will be shocked to
greater extent than the experts II the
four-time champion fails by some twist
Of fate to capture his fifth title.
BY any standard of other than the
game Jones has shown in the practice,
Pebble Beach is one of the most difficult
OF all championship courses. Bobby,
however, first reeling off 70 and then
magnificent 81, made it all look very
simple. The Georgian has simply hur-
| died the obstacles and electrified Cali
fornians by the skill of his putting
touch. For the star thus hewing to the
line, the terrors of this seaside course
| dWlndle. but the strokes pile up for
any player who wanders off the straight
and narrow fairways. The trouble is
there, plenty of it, for any one who
hnds the traps, the rocky chasms of the
ocean.
The original field of 1852 was cut to
!4o by additional Withdrawals today.
Not more than 140 are expected to tee
up for the first l8 holes of the ouaIi-
tying competition Monday and the sec
ond IL on Tuesday. The names of such
stars as Jesse Guilford, Watts Gum,
Maurice Mccarthy and Johnny Dawson
have been scratched from the list.
Dawson leaving the field because of the
barrier OF his business with a sporting
goods hrm, after coming here at first
among the favoriteS.
number of other PLAYERS. such as
Arthur Ducky) Yates of Rochester.
N. y; Harry Legg of Minneapolis and
JACK Westland of Chicago holder of
the French amateur title, remained
among the missing, with not more than
day to go. 1t would be good news for
one or the favorites, George Won Elm,
II neither Legg nor Yates appeared at
the last minute. Legg eliminated Won
Elm at Nlnlkahda in an early round
of the 1927 tournament and Yates
checked out the Detroit ace last year
at Brae Burn in the first round Fur
ther definite Withdrawals were Roscoe
Fawcett of Hopkins, Mich, and Penn
ington Miller-Jones of New York City.
Practice form. except for Jones. has
revealed some rather cratic work by
number of the contenders, "but the
principal threats for the champion ap-
pear to be George Voigt of New York,
Jess Sweetser, the 1922 champion:
George Won Elm of Detroit, though not
in as robust health as usual; Phillips
Finlay, the long hitting ex-Harvard
star, and two of the star Portland. Ore,
cast-Dr. oscar F. Willing and Don
Moe. the latter holder Of the Western
amateur title.
The British cbarnpio, r.yriI rTolIev
has been having so much trouble with
the control of his mighty wallops that
he may find himself pressed even in the
qualifying rounds. His countryman.
Eustace Storey, has played much better
than Tolley in practice. Canada has
two star contenders in Don Carrick and
Ross Somerville.
The pivotal day of the tournament,
for Jones as we'll as the other stars, is
18-hole rounds of match play will cut
the qualifying group of 80 down to 8.
Won Elm has been unable to get by this
day since he won. the title in 1926.
Jones, too, has found his only real
trouble of the last two years at this
stage Of the tournament. He was ex-
tended in 1927 to beat Maurice
Mccarthy and last year forced to an
extra hole by Ray Gorton.
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Once past this troublesome day.
when any golfer may be hot" enough
to upset the dope, Jones will be a pro-
hibitive favorite. All matches in the
last three days, from quarter-finals to
finals on Saturday, will be at SO holes.
This is the champions favorite route.
over which no player except Won Elm
has been able to beat him in the last
five years.
Because of its contour its cliffs, fair
ways that fringe the ocean and tightly
trapped greens, Pebble Beach will be
hazardous for the crowds as well as the
players. 1t has been task so far for
the relocated official staff to handle
galleries of 500 and 1000 spectators fol-
lowing Jones practice rounds. 1t may
be almost riotouS If, as expected, from
5000 to 10000 start the mad dash over
the course when the championship play
reaches its height late next week. There
Is little enough space to spare for the
play, and less for the crowds. It will
take super control by official policing
forces to prevent the galleries from
breaking all bounds in at least half
dozen hazardous reaches out into the
oceans rocky edge.
Tournament play begins Monday at
am, Pacific standard time I'll am,
Eastern standard time). The first pair
scheduled to tee up consists of j. A.
Ritchie of San Francisco and Art
(Tilly) Shafer of Los Angeles, former
major league base ball star, who helps
Maurice Mclaughlin, the ex-tennis
champion and Ward EdmCndS the