Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-14
Won ELM and
VOICHT GOOD
Americans Get Hot Every
Now and Then And
Beat Bobby
BY WILLIAM BRAUCHER

Bok<y Jones, starting out on q
campaign that may bring him every
major prize there Is to be won in
golf this year. may be beaten before
he gets to first base.
BY Georgel
That's Sust it-by George Won
Elm or George Voigt, q couple Of his
own countrymen. who viii battle
with him when the invading hosts
Of golfers tee UP May Is for the
British Amateur championship at
st. Andrews.
This heretical theory is based upon
the fact that what has been done
once can be done twice. And 1t was
no longer ago than 1926 when Bob
by Jones picked up his ball or the
next to last green at Baltusrol, two
down to Won Elm, walked over and
shook hands with the blond insur-
ance man from Los Angeles, turned
to the reporters and said:
He was too good for me"
And that was the chief reason why
Bobby Jones did not win five ma
tional championships in a row.
When George Won Elm starts
right he is a hard nut 10 crack. In
the Walker cup matches Of 1926 ii
was George who saved the cup for
this side OF the bayou when he sank
an impossible putt in his match with
Major c. 0. Hazlett where a miss
would have meant defeat.
He has the shots in those sticks
OF his and the courage TO make
them. And It was not luck that
enabled him to defeat Jones at Bal
tusrcl for, as I remember II, the
breaks OF the game were pretty even
Won Sim simply played unbeatable
golf that day. and even Bobby Jones
cannot beat that sort Of game.
The other part of the George
party, George Voigt, has been har.
assed persistently by the little rec
imp they call the Jinx. In the Ma
tional Ameateur at Brae Burn II
1928, he was beaten in the semi-fi-
mails by Phil Perkins, the British
titleholder. by which he lost g
chance to meet Jones IN the final
A couple OF weeks later, Just II
show that the decision was not H.
nal. he handed Perkins a fancy
humping in the Fix Hills invita-
ton Voigt won the qualifying
medal at Brae Burn that year.
Voigt is a close approach to per-
lection in golfing form. He is q
stylist without a flaw in his methoc
Of department. He concentrates;
you could throw q shovelful Of sane
down his back while he was puttinG
and ! doubt If he would be upset.
In his cool, u~nconcerned way, hi
meets al corners alike, without
manifestation Of nerves. His op,
ponent might be the Prince o
Wales, the Marx Bros, Primo Car.
nera or Bobby Jones for all the diff
ference IL makes 70 George.
Jones may be figured TO havI
something Of an advantage over hi
opponents at st. Andrews, however
Jones won the British Open Their
in 1927. aGd he likes the going.
When Mr.. Jones likes the going
they have to 60 some TO beat him
Play Tomorrow
SANDWICH, Eng, May 14-tFH
Hoping for their sixth straight vic
tory in the team series. Bobby Jone
and his American Walker Cup gol
team begins a two-day battle wit
Britain's picked amateurs on tn
Royal st. Georges course tomorrow
Great Britain never has heater
the United States IN Walker Gu,
competition. inaugurated IN 1872.
but the Briton's chances this yea
are considered much brighter thai
they were In 1923 when the compe
titfon last VA pIayed.