Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-28
QUITS COMPETITION
WITH GRAND SLAM
GIenna CoIIett Keeps Wom-
ems TitIe-Sarazen Tops
Pro Brigade.

year such as 1880. DWarnng
everything else in Importance
was the performance of Robert
Tyre Jones, jr., in capturing the
four championships of the season,
the first and only grand slam"
the game ever has known or ever
again may know, the British open
and amateur and the United
States open and amateur. Add
ing the final touch Of drama came
the announcement from Jones in
dicating that he had selected the
moment of his quadruple con-
quest to retire from competitive
golf.
If nothing else of consequence had
occurred, the aura attending the ris-
ing to its zenith of the sun Of the
brilliant Albanian would have been
more than sufficient to etch the crop
curtain of the 1880 season in the most
fiamboyant coloring.
Opening his campaign at Hoylake in
the British amateur championship,
Jones steadily fought his way to the
peak through round after round or
heart breaking matches. From the
first to last he had to fight, or, at
least, until he had cut his way clear OF
the l8-hole matches and found him
self at last in the final with Roger
Wethered.
Strongest bulwark of British golfing
pride though Wethered may once have
been, he proved no match for Jones
over So holes. Only the first nine holes
actually were close. After the turn in
the morning Jones piled up such q
margin on the incoming holes as 20
make the second round merely for
mality.
VOigt Gives Jones Scare.
It was George Voigt, scratch player
of the Metropolitan Golf Association
and former Washington resident. who
gave Jones one of his hardest battles OF
the British amateur. The pair met IN
the Semi-final. Facing defeat as he
teed up for the last five or six holes,
the Albanian finally eked out victory
on the home green.
There was something Of coincidence,
too, in the fact that in the British
open championship two players from
his native land chased Jones home.
The pair who no more than failed to
make the grade were Macdonald Smith
Of Lakeville and Leo Diegel, attached
to the Aqua Caliente Club. Later, in
the United States open. Smith came
within two strokes of tying Jones Tor
the title.
For his third major tournament sue
cess Jones can thank q round OF 6S
which he sprang upon his adversaries
in the third round Of the play at the
- H.. ~ lie
and the 40-foot putt which he holed
as a conclusion to his ~ holes OF
medal scoring. Smith started the last
round seven strokes behind Jones, but
cut down the margin all save two
strokes by one of the best reRrguRrd
actions seen in years.
That tournament at Minneapolis was
marked by perhaps the most torrid
weather in which the open champion
ship ever has been conducted. Jones
got that brilliant round of So in the
rirht SPOT. for he was feeling the effects
of the hot weather on his last 10 holes
and his play then was decidedly
ragged. Had Bobby taken three puts
instead of one from near the edge Of
the home green, Smith would have
been abreast of him. However, as in
the British open, Jones fortune held.
The door in both events was open for
those who pursued. but such was the
tension that neither at home nor abroad
could the professionals quite catch up.
Jones Takes Amateur Easily.
With three of the four championships
m his hands Jones still had the Ameri-
can amateur to win to attain his goal.
Because of the fact that he was de-
feated in the first round of last years
amateur at Pebble Beach, Bobby was
considered by many to run a good
chance of taking the count in the 1B-
hole rounds at Merton. All fears
proved to be groundlesS, however, for
Jones never had an easier time winning
q title. Defeating the Canadian cham
pion, c. Ross Somerville, handsomely
In the opening round, Jones passed the
two 1o-hole rounds easily and also won
with coT1summate ease in the subsequent
three matches of 36 holes.
Altogether Jones beat his five oppo-
nents by 80 up-this in two 18-hole
and three 36-hole matches. In the
semi-flnal Bobby squared a long
standing account by defeating Jess
Sweetser of New York by and 8, and
he was little less severe against Eugene
Romans in the final This latter
bracket he won by up and Z to play.
Sweetser had beaten Jones In the ma
tional amateur championship Of 1922
by a score of 8 and Z.
Miss COlIett Wins Again.
Completing his competitive career
with Is major championships to his
credit, Jones left a record that prob
ably never will be touched. Miss
dilemma Collect. however, apparently
does not feel that such string OF con-
quests is entirely beyond her reach,
even IL she can never expect to win
more than the British and United
States women's in any one season.
At Los Angeles this year Miss Collect
cut the fifth notch in her fnashie by
successfully defending the title won the
previous season at Detroit. And for
the second time since 1928 Miss Collect
overwhelmed Miss Virginia Van VIE of
Chicago in the final.
Sarazen Tops Pro Brigade.
Gene sarazen Of New York won most
Of the money among the professionals,
getting q big start by taking first prize
money of $4,000 in the S25, 900 Aqua
Caliente open, but Tommy Armour OF
Detroit won the most glory.
The BLACK Scot" carried off the Pro-
feesional Golfers championship. the
Canadian open. and helped his purse
by baggink first prize money in the
$4,000 st. Louis open.
sarazen also won the $4,000 st. Paul
open and captured the Western open
BY one of the lowest scores in that
tournaments history. The Metropoli-
tan open went 10 Willie Macfarlane.
In other fields, George Dunlap OF
Princeton captured the National Inter
collegiate title and Robert wingate OF
jacksonville, Fla, won the. National
Public Links crown, ending the three
year reign Of Carl Kaufman, the golf
ing clerk Of Pittsburgh.