Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-30
Albanian Takes Lead, Loses
1t and Then Stages
Comeback.
EX-BRITISH CHAMPION
WILL MEET AMERICAN
Last-Hole Play Decides Match
After It Was Squared
on Sixteenth.
BY the Associated Press.

"a ANOrInWo, 0coIiand, May S0.-
Bobby Jones advanced to the final of
the British amateur golf championship
this afternoon by eliminating George
Voigt, l up.
Jones opponent in the final tomor-
row, at SO holes, will be Roger
Wethered, former British amateur
champion, and like Jones, captain of
this years Walker Cup team. Wethered
won his way to the final by defeating
Lester Hartley, 2 up and / to play.
The open champion Of the United
states had to come from behind to win
from his fellow countryman, Jones was
down at the thirteenth, reduced his
tfa tN lead to with q birdie 4 at
the fourteenth and squared the match
at the sixteenth with a par 4, when
Volgt was trapped and took S.
The seventeenth was halved in birdie
As and then Jones won the eighteenth
to take the match and leave only one
match standing between him and the
one major championship he never has
been able to win.
Both Score Brides.
A gallery of 5000 persons assembled
Tor the start of the semi-final match
between Jones and Voigt and was re-
warded with great thrill at the first
hole when it was halved In birdie threes,
Jones went l up at the second, where
he scored a par 4 to for Voigt.
George was trapped in "Cheapes
Bunker" and, although he slashed into
the sand and dug the ball out, he was
40 yards short of the green, while Bobby
was on with his second. Jones putted
dead from 20 feet, and when Voigt ran
over the green he conceded the hole.
Jones, ]. up.
The third was halved in tours. The
fourth was halved in f1ves, after Voigt
had great chance to win and square
the match. He did square it at the
par 5. Jones drive was only a yard
ahead of that from Voigt's club. Voigt's
No. l iron shot SKINNED a few feet
beyond the green's edge. Jones was
on, 90 feet from the cup. Voigt holed
his putt of about 5 feet. Jones missed
his, the ball running past the cup, and
the match was all-square.
Jones again went / up at the sixth
when he scored a par to 5 for Voigt.
but Voigt again squared the match at
the seventh when he was down In par
4. while Jones took three puts and
finished with 5.
The short eighth was halved in par
threes.
The ninth was halved with a pair of
par fours, and the match at the turn
was all square.
The card:
Jones-out .344 554 534-37
Voigt-out ..........354 545 434-37
Jones Comedies Putt.
Jones holed an 18-inch putt for his
4 and conceded Voigt one only slightly
longer, leaving the match all square
as they started on the second nine.
The tenth was halved in par fours.
Voigt went up at the eleventh, this
marking the first time he had been in
the lead, when he was down in par
at the short hole to for Jones. Jones
tried to reach the green with a low
shot, his ball striking in blown sand in
front of the green and seemed likely to
run up to the cup. Instead it raced up
the sloping green and ran down the
bank of the Eden River. Jone Clipped
back feet from the cup. Voight put
his approach putt on the lip of the
cup. Jones ball again slipped past the
hole, giving Voigt the lead.
The twelfth was halved in 4.
Weight Takes Thirteenth.
Voigt went Q up at the thirteenth
when he was down in to for Jones.
Bobby with a little slice on his drive
found his ball in rough and his second
was just short of bunker. Voigt drove
in the fairway, but topped his iron
spot on the plateau near the green.
The crowd then gasped as Jones COM
pletely fluffed a maSrie pitch, the ball
going about 10 yards. Voigt ran his
nine feet from the pin. Jones holed
his putt from IL feet. but Voigt got
his down also to win the hole.
Jones reduced Voigt's lead to one by
winning the fourteenth with birdie 4.
Voigt was in trouble all the way and
finally took 6, while Jones holed his
birdie 4, leaving Voigt up.
The fifteenth was halved in S.
Jones won the sixteenth with a four
halved in birdie fours and the match
was still square.
Bobby Jones and George Voigt sur
vived play in the quarter finals this
morning along with two Englishmen,
Roger Wethered of London and Lister
Hartley of Chislehurst.
PairingS for the semi-final round this
afternoon found Jones opposed to Voigt
and Hartley matched with Wethered
for the right to enter the 36-hole final
round tomorrow.
Voigt and Jones both won their morn
ing matches in comparatively easy FASH
ion. Jones gained a four-hole lead on
Eric Fiddian of Stourbridge on the
first nine holes and maintained it TO
end the match on the fifteenth green,
and g.
Voigt eliminated William Sutton,
West CheSire artisan, and 4, holding
lead Of 2 up at the turn and then
taking advantage of a collapse in the
Briton's game to end the match at the
fourteenth.