Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-25

1" september 15.-The boys
4 v 1 are certainly making it
easy for Bobby Jones in
this championship. If ever man
had a hand-picked tournament to
win and do it without half trying
Bobby Jones has this one in the
bag.
In other years he has had to
hurdle lot of tough champs, but
this year the unknown kids from
Detroit, California and Boston
have removed the obstacles from
Bobby's path until all he has to
do now is to breeze in under
wraps to become the first man in
the history of the game to win
four major championships in a
single year. Or, as Freddie Nc
Leod says, Its just another set
up"
Freddie made this remark yesterday
as he watched young Charlie Seaver
knock of George j. Voigt, considered
the toughest gent Jones had to beat.
There never has been q championship
like this one. Look down the list of
those who came up for the third round
today. Up there in the top bracket
which will produce the man to meet
Jones in the final, provided the great
Albanian goes through his lower
bracket, and see what there Is to beat.
George Voigt was the main actor in
that half after Francis Ouimet was
than
George slipped out and took it on the
chin from young Charlie Seaver. That
entire upper bracket today is composed
of lads who never have figured in the
championship to any extent before, and
it is q cinch that whoever comes
through will be set-up for the winner
in the bottom half, and that should
be Jones. Up there in the top half
are four men who are comparative kids,
except one Billy McPhail of Boston, and
Billy is not an old man. And down
in the bottom half where Jones Is
located is the toughest part Of the
draw.
May Face Mccarthy.
Jones yet must beat either Maurice
Mccarthy or jess Eweetser to get to
the final and he has golf game on his
hands today against Fay Coleman of
California, but the man killer from
Atlanta brushes them In 80 holes. He
should beat Coleman BY the tFlirtieth
Carthy, the fighting Irishman from
Flatbush. who is the Metropolitan
champion and a former member OF the
Washington Golf and Country Club,
undergraduate of Georgetown Univer-
sity, Is in the third round today, match
ing shots with jess Sweetser of Siwanoy
because he had the skill and grit to
f.S k~~Il toe 80
the hole against George Won Elm late
yesterday and bring to an end the long
est overtime golf match that ever has
been played in the amateur champion
ship. Mccarthy, one Of the biggest
hitters in the game, fought Won Elm
to a standstill down the stretch IN the
second round. should have put him away
on the seventeenth and finally snuded
out the aspirations of Won Elm on the
tenth extra hole, where the fighting
Irishman knocked q niblick chip shot
within inches of the hole to win with
O great birdie 3.
Not Sweetser Of Old.
Mccarthy had the edge most Of the
way In this match He was up and 8
to go, but three-putted the sixteenth
Mccarthy should have won on the
seventeenth. but he missed five-footer
"
Won Elm, his grim face showing the
strain. laid an iron shot stone dead TO
the hole with birdie 3. So they went
on and on, with Mccarthy three-putt-
ing the second extra hole, where he
had Won Elm in the bag.
The son OF the old Flatbush pro hung
on as only he can cling and finally won
the match with one Of his greatest
shots a chip that ended three inches
he I@nIn TrlrNN frnlg a And
conceded Mccarthy the victory.
But to get back to the Jones man.
Only one man is left who ever has
beaten him, and that is Sweetser. And
Sweetser is far from the Sweetser OF
1922, when he smothered Bobby by 8
and z. II Sweetser beats Mccarthy
today-and that is hardly likely-Jones
will smother SWeetser as Jess hung it
on Bobby eight years ago. No one else
left in the Championship except Jones
and Sweetser ever has gone as far as
the third round before, which should be
the tip-off on what they have done for
the Jones boy II he doesn't win the
world will end tomorrow. He is Just
too good for them at 36 holes. That
Is his distance and no man has been
able to stop him over the route except
Won Elm, and Won Elm is out. Probably
no one else can do it.
Seeded Stars Fade.
Certainly this is the queerest cham
pionship that has been played for the
last decade. Not a seeded man, with
the exception of Jones, remains in the
championship today. Sweetser and Nc
Csrthy were in the second, but they
were not seeded. And six of the eight
who remain are complete strangers to
the third round of the championship.
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they must have been to get where they
are-but they have never been so far
before. Can it be that the old order is
changing? 1t seems so, as all the
favorites flop, while Jones keeps on.
II Jones wins this one, Patch for an
announcement that he is through with
competition in the open championship
He probably will play in the amateur
until he is a portly old fellow who
getting ready to announce his retire
ment from the open. He viii defend
his open championship until some one
beats him and then will devote himself
to the amateur.
Coleman is the chap who shot a SO
in the qualifying round, but ne is not
the boy to beat Jones over Bobby'l
hand-picked distance.
Consider those who went out yester-
day In the morning ever that crushing
1S-hole distance where Jones finally
has found himself after the British
amateur. Where most of the matches
are at 10 holes.
Out went Francis Ouimet at the
hands of Charles Kocsis of Detroit
Out went Phil Perkins, former British
champion at the hands OF Johnny Leh-
man. the Western champion. And out
went doc" Willing, last years runner.
up, who dropped the decision to Lawson