Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-11
Jones IS MAGNET
FOR G0LF|NG ANS
Match on Coast Shows 1t Is
Player, Not Tournament,
That Counts.
BY BEN G. KLINE.

~ AN FRANCISCO, September IL
In golf it is the players-perhaps
more accurately, the player
- rather than the event that draws
the crowd This was indicated
Yesterday when between eight and ten
thousand men, women ana cnlloren
watched Bobby Jones, Cyril Tolley.
George Won Elm and Or. O. F Wiling
play a friendly exhibition match over
the fog-swept fairways of the San Fran
cisco Golf Club.
The size Of the gallery was hint as
to the trampling Pebble Beach would
have gotten last week had the Atlanta
wizard progressed to the final. As for
tunes broke, however, attendance at the
national amateur championship 1eil
down and the Islam Temple Shriners'
Hospital for crippled children, for the
benefit of which the exhibition here was
arranged. secured the gate receipts from
CALIFORNIA; largest golf gallery to date.
Crowd. Presenl pSben.
If galleries at fairway events grow
much larger, some genius Is going to
have to invent a new method by which
larger numbers than at present can
get q closeup view Of their favorites.
A wise observer, after scrambling Tor
tops of bunkers and other vantage
points to watch the three top-notch
Americans and the British amateur
champion go throughs their afternoons
exercise, suggested Ntadiun with 1S
sets of movable scenery in the form OF
sand traps, hills and thinkers.
As it was, the Grove divided roughly
into three groups. Two contented
themselves with seeing every other hole
played, skipping the qt1e between TO
obtain vantage points m advance. and
~ 4~A eyo11 al ne
officials to fight for position after each
play.
Another problem that bigger, but not
necessarily BETTER" galleries Is going
to be present was indicated at the re-
cent amateur tournament, when Or.
willing, known in the Northwest for
what he is. fine type Of sportsman,
encountered an extra hazard in the
form of hostile crowd of spectators.
The combination of misunderstanding
and mob psychology which produced
lowers OF the pastime here, that though
golf may remain "gentleman'S game"
the strictly courteous atmosphere OF Q
private club can no longer be assured
at a big, popular event. unpalatable as
that fact may be to the ,old-tirne de-
voices.
Not a "Dour Person.
Here the husky doctor was cheered
for his carefully and expertly executed
shots and he showed all that he could
grin over q rub of the green the same
as any one else The secret of his gem
eral reported "dour" expression at Peb-
BILE Beach is explained by those who
admire the doctor as being due chiefly
to q great desire to take the cham
pionship to his home State, Oregon.
ANYWAY. as an exhibition golfer, the
Pebble Beach fina1ist showed pleasing
personality and furnished some excel
lent pointers to the aspiring dubs In at
tendance.
A thrilled female fan was heard to
tell her friends that she actually had
touched Bobby Jones with her fingers.
A large crowd of hero orshiping boys
crowded around the Albanian at the end
OF the match and kept him busy for
some minutes in an elbowing crowd
initiating score cards. One was heard
telling another a heartfelt disappoint-
ment:
"A woman went UP to Bobby Just
after he l1oled out and asked him for the
bali he had played with, and he gave
it to her. Gee whiZ."