Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
PLAYS EASY GAME
TO DOWN ROMANS
Annexes Fourth Major Title
OF fear-TakeS Big Lead,
Coasts Home, 81.
BY w. r.. McCALLuM.

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stalked over Merion'S
bunker fringed fairways today, a
living holocaust of destruction, to
add to his three major crowns
the one diadem he needed to
make the grand slam in golf and
set a record that no man ever
approached before.
Stalking his unruff1ed way over
the layout that baff1ed five for
mer champions, Robert Tyre
Jones. jr., of Atlanta, today added
the United States amateur golf
championship to the three major
crowns he already held to become
the first man in the history of
the ancient game to win all four
championships in single cam
paign.
Bobby swamped Eugene Romans,
scholarly. bespectacled. fighting young
ster from Englewood. N. j.. in the final
round of the championship over Mer-
ions Rigged reaches today, winning
In q common canter by 8 and Z.
He might have won by a margin Of
i've holes more had he borne down with
the feroeity Of the Jones of other years.
But Bobby was Z up az the end of the
first half of the scheduled 36-hole final
and after that. as is his custom, he was
content to coast along, picking up a
hole here and there along the route I'M
til his opponent made enough mistakes
to lose the golf game. And at that Ho-
mans put up game exhibition against
the ravaging corsair. He played golf
that would have kept him in any ordi-
nary golf game, but against Jones his
golf was just a futile gesture.
Ends on 2Sth Green.
The world champion was around in
- in the morning and closed Romans
out on the 28th green. His 80 over the
second nine holes picked up four holes
against Romans 81, and when the
champion went to lunch the verdict
was as good rs in. The jury still was
out. but the case had been so con-
clIsively proven for the defendant that
the vote was an empty formality.
In five rounds Of golf good enough to
win his fifth amateur championship
and thereby eclipse the four-tinle rec
ord set by Jerry Travers, Jones at no
time was down at a crucial point of his
matches. At no juncture of the quintet
was he even worried. He pushed
through this championship like a hot
knife through butter. The emperor to-
day reigns supreme.
The golf world lies PROSTATE at the
feet of this colossal figure. this chunky
Southern lad with the wise smile of a
Chicago lawyer, who bestrides his world
like an Alexander.
Truly there are no worlds left for
Jones to conquer. He has the golf
racket by the tail with down-hill pull.
Big Bob" father OF the world cham
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the fourth green this afternoon with
Chick Ridley and a group Of Georgia
friends watching his son stride down
the hill with his conquering step.
Father Wears Grin.
Bobby's dad had watched the boy
take 1t on the chin before, but this
time watched the genial Southern
gentleman look up at the 1000 people
who literally hung agape on the shots
of the master and big Bobs" broke
into a broad grin as he whistled. ITS
Long. Long Trial A-Winding'' He
knew that the end of the victory march
was approaching. The tread of the
conQueror reSounded over the bunkereo
universe and among all those thou
sands who watched Young Bob stroke
his way to his easiest victory In hi:
greatest year. big Bob" was the Least
disturbed. He was not blase, but he
knew what was coming.
The story of the match-that is the
strokes that won and lost--is one OF
the same old Jones' manner of winning
golf tournaments. Bobby just played
the golf course putting It up to Ho-
mans at every stage of the encounter
Romans came from away back yester-
day to nip young Seaver at the wire
but he was up against different golfer
today. Where Seaver cracked yester-
day and lost holes, Jones today added
to his lead, and long before mid-aft-
ernoon there was little doubt of the
outcome The fourth horseman was
astTide his steed In full career, hel
raving conquest only to be stopped BY
the whole-hearted handshake of the
loser.
Z Up on Eighteenth.
Carding a 70 against 70 for Homan.
IN the morning. Jones was up at thu
luncheon interval and Jones doesnf
have to work with a lead like that. HI
played like a second-rater in the aft
ernoon, but Romans always was a shade
worse. Jenes added the third and fourth
holes OF the afternoon round to hi
lead to become 9 up dropped the ninth
with sloppy iron shot. where he con
ceded Romans a putt for a bird from
six feet, knocked the ball around thu
tenth green like a tyro. and finally
closed out the PROFESSIONAL looking Ho
mans on the eleventh. green of TIT
round and the twenty-ninth hole o.
the match.
It may have been a friendly gesture
Jones made at the tenth, where he CAV
Gene q half in 6, 2 over par, but TIN
fact remains that the Georgian wa.
not his customary relentless self Dor
mic 8. Jones pitched 10 feet from tn
pin at the twenty-ninth, holed out TO
and met Romans half across tht
green. where the Englewood youth con
graduated him with the sincerity tina
every one else felt.
Then Bobby, little tired, a littl
juhilant, the same unconcerned BIZ
kid, whose hair still struggles down il
disorder over that concentrated brow
walked back to the club house. hi
arms half around Genes shoulders.
And the officials waited in the shadoy
of tree while Bobby washed his face
and then moved out to where the bi
gold cup stood in the middle of a guar,
OF leathernecks.
Bobby made his customary gallan
little speech rejecting his pride o
achievement and tucked the big mu
under his arm.
The fourth horseman was on a gentl
mare. his killer" instinct abated Bob
by had literally found his pot Of gold
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