Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-05
DEFEAT OF STARS
MAY BRING ACTION
u. S. G. A. Officials at Scene
of Title Event, Though,
:; Refuse to Talk.
BY BILL WISE.
BY BILL WISE.
~ EBBLE BEACH, Calf, Septem-
Der 5.-The defeat in 18-hole
matches yesterday of Bobby
4 Jones and George Won Elm, the

~ EBBLE BEACH, Calf, Septem-
Der 5.-The defeat in 18-hole
matches yesterday of Bobby
4 Jones and George Won Elm, the
United States Golf Associations
ranking players, may cause the parent
organization to ban all short-round
championship matches in the future.
The national amateur championship
Is finally decided over the 36-hole route
and this distance has been universally
accepted as a fair championship test
Bobby Jones has pulled three l8-hole
title matches out of the fire during the
past two years and George Won Elm
lost yesterday over the same distance
for the third consecutive year.
In spite of the fact that Won Elm has
been unable to get under way In the
last three national amateur champion
ships, the United States Golf AsSocia-
ton continues to rank him next to
Bobby Jones, rated the greatest ANA
teur.
Some Cases in Point.
Maurice Mccarthy had Bobby Jones
defeated at Minikahda two years ago
when he made an ineXcuSable blunder
and lost the match.
Ray Gorton led Bobby Jones for IT
consecutive holes at Braeburn last year.
Bobby didn't do the unexpected, but
Gorton slipped enough to permit Bobby
to win the last two holes and square
the match. Bobby won the first extra
hole.
Won Elm hasn't been so fortunate.
He lost to Harry Legg of Minneapolis
last year when every golf critic in the
country agreed that George would have
been the victor at the end of 36-hole
match. Yesterday marks the first time
Won Elm has ever been defeated by
Chandler Egan. George has defeated
Egan several times over the 36-hole
route.
The merits of the 18-hole match have
been argued pro and con for years.
Bobby Jones, playing the best golf Of
his career, went to England in 1921 and
lost an 18-hole encounter to v. Camp
bell, an opponent who was not highly
rated even in his own country.
T. A. Bourne, Jess Sweetser, Harrison
johnson and Rudy Wilhelm were forced
to go extra holes for first-round de-
semi-finalist in the national amateur at
Braeburn last year, lost on the eight
zenith green yesterday when his oppo-
nent made 40-foot putt after losing
four strokes to par on the first three
holes in the last qualifying round.
Finlay contributed the most brilliant
and nervy exhibition of the week by
birdieing the eighteenth to make the
championship racket.
Remarkable golf by good golfer
rated here as much too good to be
dropped from the championship scram-
BILE in brief 18-hole match.
How It Can Be Done.
Lawson Little, four strokes over par
for the first nine holes in his match
with Johnny Goodman, the youngster
who defeated Bobby Jones, lost three
more strokes on the next few holes but
still defeated Goodman and 1-proof
conclusive that Bobby Jones would have
won from Goodman over the longer
route.
The U. S. G. A. officials here refused
to be quoted, but even the uninitiated
realize that the men who guide and
guard national golf are seriously con-
sidering a change. The one solution
seems to be trimming the field to 16
qualif1ers, and the U. S. G. A. rightly
claims this would prevent an equal
number of promising golfers from get
ting a shot at the championship.
Something will be done. Even the
q. S. G. A. officials would hesitate to
start a national amateur tournament
without Bobby Jones and George Won
Elm in the field. And strange things
do happen in golf.
(Copyright, 1929, by North American News
paper Alliance)