Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-05
BY ALLAN J. GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

~ EBBLE BEACH, Calf, Septem-
- Der 5.--Like the boxer who left
his punch in the gymnasium, II
l. now seems that the great Bobby
Jones, after coming all the way
across the Rockies to show the boys
out here how he does it, left his par
cracking game in the practice rounds.
Unquestionably below his best form,
Jones was eliminated yesterday in the
first round of the national amateur golf
championship for the first time in his
career as the 18-hole LINK matches"
raised havoc with the first tournament
ever held in the Far West.
Johnny Goodman, 20-year-old Oma-
ha, Nebr., star, accomplished the down.
fall of the national open king and four
time amateur titleholder by the narrow
margin of / up in a match decided on
the home hole, but actually tossed away
by the defending champion on the four
tenth. Goodman in turn was knocked
out of the tournament in the second
round by another giant killer, 18-year-
old William Lawson Little, jr., OF San
Francisco. But for the day, at least,
the cornhuSker enjoyed the rare thrill
of fairly beating the worlds most re-
nowned exponent Of the royal and
ancient game.
The outcome of the hectic first two
rounds of match play left eight play
ers-three from the Far West, three
west and England-to battle it out to-
day In the 36-hole quarter finals. 1t
now Is a free-for-all scramble.
Playing Fine Golf.
Over the longer route that prevails
for the remaining tournament play, the
36-hole distance that has been so much
to the liking of the dethroned cham
pion in four of the past five years, the
favorites of the "laSt eight" were the
Briton, Tolley, and the New Yorker,
Voigt. Both, on the basis of their SEN
sational scoring yesterday, appeared to
have regained their best form for the
critical stages of the tournament, just
as the reverse seemed true so far as
Jones was concerned.
The defeat of Jones was not only a
stunning shock to the form-players,
who had made the Georgian an almost
prohibitive favorite. but somewhat
melancholy. abrupt blow to the expecta-
tions of Californians eager to see Bobby
do his stuff. This has been Jones
tournament" from the start. Every ma
tive son seemed to have turned out to
welcome the Southerner. All the bally-
hoo emphasized the dominance OF Jones
to the almost complete exclusion OF the
field.
1t can thus be appreciated with what
mingled feelings a crowd Of some 5000
jammed around the last green yester-
Gay to see Jones miss his last desperate
putt and Goodman play through with
confident dash that meant victory.
They hardly knew whether to groan in
sympathy for Jones or cheer the gal
liant youth who refused to crack and
played the champion to standstlll.
The compromise was rather feeble
cheer, which seemed to convey the i'm
preston it was a nice thing for Johnny,
but a tragedy for Bobby and the home
folks Jones was beaten principally be-
cause he lost the putting touch that
usually is his in any tournament, day
by day or in the pinch. There are no
better putters in the world than the
Georgian, but his famous goose-necked
blade Calamity Jane" began to lose ef-
fectiveness in the qualifying round and
failed to stage a comeback.
Jones Below Standard.
Jones has not been brilliant since
he shot 81 in practice Friday. True
enough, he scored 70 in his first quail
flying round and tied Gene Romans
for the medal with 145 but his approx
mate IS yesterday, although q stroke
better than Goodman's medal score,
was below the Jones standard. Since
match play was the thing, the medal
tally didn't mean much, and but for
number of breaks" in his favor, the
Georgian might have been polished off
without the necessity of going the limit.
Jones got into more trouble In one
round than he usually does in q whole
tournament. He started so raggedly
that he lost three successive holes. He
was only one down at the turn after
taking puts on the short seventh and
squared the match on the twelfth for
the first and only time.
Then the fourteenth-Jones fired two
long shots to within easy striking dis
lance Of the green on this 555-yard