The Washington times., 1929-09-04
SHORT DUEL
WORRIES
CHAMP
Ry Davis J. Walsh

ny OaVls y WALSH
PEBBLE BEACH, DEL
MONTE, Calf, Sept. A.
Heads will fall in great pro-
fusion today under the pitiless
guillotine that operate as an
1S-hole match play round IN
the national amateur golf
championship.
They will be human heads, per-
haps regal heads; for even Robert
T. Jones, jr., the fool-proof golfer
OF the ages. is not immune to this
galloping consumption type of COM
petition in the first two rounds of
the championship and, by night
fall, it is possible that Jones may be
merely a name that you find in the
city directory.
The 1s-hole match is the only
thing in connection with q golf
course for which Jones has the
slightest respect. He knows he will
qualify: he is reasonably certain of
winning any 36-hole match. But
when they play the thing on the
basis of a four and-One.half inning
game, the automatOn Is revealed
for what he really is; a human
being after all who is subject to
the fears and fancies of ordinary
@
hole matches with distaste, and II
he wins the first of these this morn
ing. he will face another this after
noon.
In the former. he will play
John Goodman, of Omaha, for
Yner transn1ississippi champion,
and every inch q golfer. This
match will begin at 1910 o'clock.
and end about 1880, and every
minute Of the event won't seem
any longer than a week to the
champion.
And he comes by this tendency
honestly. In 1925 he only beat Dick
Jones in the first round by win
on the final hole; In 1927 Maurice
Mccarthy had him down with a
few holes to go. forcing Jones to
win on the final green again; last
year r. r. Gorton edged the cup
with what would have been the win
ming put on the eighteenth, the pair
playing an extra hole before Jones
won. '''--~ -'--
The second round OF eighteen
holes in the afternoon usually is a
more simplified matter to the great
one and this time 1t may have to be.
For If Jones beats Goodman, he will
be asked to face the winner of the
Finlay-Little match and at least one
Of these, Finlay. is one of the COM
inE golfers Of the age.
Anyhow the two rounds today
figure to determine definitely
whether this championship Is to be
another field day for Jones or his
attempt to win his fifth title in the
last six starts is to- die in infancy.
Once launched into the 36.hole af.
fairs that begin tomorrow, 1t is be-
1leved that Jones will take his field
like lead water takes laudanum. A
coupe of good golfers usually found
around the nineteenth hole
There were 3s left in the field
after Eddie Held had won a
play.Off for the last qualifying =.
place from Francis Brown, Don
Armstrong aud G. A. GriswOId
late yesterday afternoon.
TheY were naturally the best of a
great field and, therefore, good men
beyond the ordinary meaning of the
term, since they outIasted such as
Chick Evans. the Canadians, Car
rick and Somerville: Frank DoIp. d.
Clarke Corkran, George Dawson,
Lord Charles Hope. Paul Hunter,
Allen Moser, the Ritchies, George
and Jim; Bon Stein. Clarence Wolff,
Rudy Knepper, Jack Neville and
others. In fact. the surviving elect
included Cyril Tolley, British cham.
pion: Gene Homans. the joint medal
ist: Jess Sweetser, former champion
OF America and England: George
Won Elm, the No. 2 amateur of the
world; T. A. Bourne, former French
champion: George Voigt, 1928
medalist and semifinalist; Jimmy
Johnston. Eustaee Storey, of Eng
land: Francis Ouimet and Phil Fin
lay. among others.
So today is to be the great con-
vincer as far as the case OF the
The first round will get under way
with the Cyril Tolley- Eddie Held
match at q o'clock. The remaining
Is matches will follow in five
minute intervals with Jones deep
down in the lower half of the draw.
This also happens to the
tougher half. for his immediate
neighbOrs include VOigt, john
stOn. Don Moe. Storey, Ouinaet
and Finlay. whereas the upper
half has TOlIey. DIR. Willing,
Sweetser. Won Elm and John
McHuEh as its headIinerN.
The first round matches not al.
ready mentioned include the follow
ing:
Fay Coleman VS.. Gene Homans,
DIR. Willing VS.. Dan Sangster, C.
X Hunter VS.. r. A. Bourne,
Sweetser VS.. Ralph Hoffman, Nc.
Hugh VS.. John f. Lehman. Won
Elm VS.. Chandler Egan. Rude will
helm VS.. Lee Pendergrass. Voigt VS..
Vince Dolp, Moe VS.. Jack Gaines,
Johnson VS.. John De Paolo, Roland
Mackenzie VS.. Storey. Ouimet VS..
Dave Martin and Clarence Hubby
vs., Gibson Dunlap.