New Britain herald., 1930-09-29
BOBBY JONES IS
 EMPEROR OF GOLF
Atlantan Has Little to Say Over
 His Great Victory
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 Ardmore. Pa.,-Sept. e9 - How it feels to be the crowned king of golfers and champion of golf cham pions, past and present, can't be found out by questioning Robert Tyre Jones, Jr, who Saturday won his fourth major victory in a sea- sons play when he beat Eugene Homans in the finals in the U. S. amateur and thereby established a record that is likely to stand as long as golf is played.
 There is a lot that he might say but he is leaving it to others to do the talking. He did not even bother to deny the sensational story that was sent out before play started here, to the effect that he was al- most crippled with stomach trouble.
 Fifteen thousand of his fellow citizens saw him establish a record on the links that has never been approached and may never be equalled. and when it was all over the golfing god of Atlanta as usual, had very little to say. T may and l may not play in future champion ship tournaments" was the extent of his remarks.
 Within six months he had scaled the Olympian heights of golf. The British and American golf cham pionships, amateur and open, were in his bag when he sank his final putt Saturday. In a season he had accomplished with his woods and irons what no man had done be- fore. Only an amateur could do it and the Georgian did it with the aid of Calamity Jane."
 It does not, matter now whether Bobby Jones plays championship golf or not Fourteen years ago he set out on his golfing career. At 2S he is king of American and Brit. ish courses. More than that, he cannot be with driver and butter. "I felt that I had something defi- nite to accomplish and l did it. That. done up to the queens taste, is enough.
 Right now, as on other occasions, Bobby Jones might cash in for tune on golf. But golf to him is no more than a game. By profession he is lawyer and it is said to be his secret ambition to win honors in the law courts, equal to those that he has taken on the links of Amer ica and England. That will not ad- init of six months golf each year. He has taken nothing out of golf and he owes no debt to the game of the Scots. If he retires, who can blame hilS?
 A 50 to 1 shot by the odds of Lloyds to win all four British and American major golting titles this year, Attorney Jones upset the dope. He had never won the British ama- teur and he was beaten last year in the first round of the U. S. Anna teur. But 1880 was Jones' best year, better than any stretch of imagination last March. And now there are no more golfing worlds for the Atlantan 10 conquer.
 Last year at Pebble Beach, after the youngsters had been eliminated, time played favorites with the vet erans, but at Merion, this year it was youth that was served. A 13 or 20 year old youngster was des- tined to cross clubs with the seasons thrice-crowned champion, but Ho- man who won out for the honor, was no match for the champ. He prov ed to be straw man, offering little resistance in the triumphant on- sweep of the great golfing god Jones'
 Willie Park, Sr.. Tom Morris, Sr., John Ball, Jr.. H. H. Hilton, Harry Vardon, James Braid, Jamie Ander- son, J. H. Taylor, John Ball, and Tom Morris, Jr., across the Atlantic. and Walter Hagen on this side were golfing names to conjure with when the aforesaid gentlemen were in the heyday of golfing fame but in span of seven years not one of them approached the record clinched at Merton Saturday by southern gentleman whom the world fondly knows as Bobby"
 Once his fellow citizens wanted to give him a s50,000 house; now he could have the world, the seven seas and the north and south poles, but the gift of the world would not tempt the four-fold champion to jeopardize his amateur standing. Golf is just like that to Emperor Jones. No, you caNt beat it. And yet there are those who will accept five dollar gold pieces for making q low score on miniature golf