Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-31

Jones, 1ILer one
mistake at the first A14az14Z24---
hole, was his most George Voigt.
brilliant self against
Eric Fiddian, boy of 20 with a goltlng
future Jones just kept on playing
par golf until he won by 4 and 3, and
that was that.
Voigt Puts Badly.
George voigt played William Sutton,
an artisan golfer from Cheshire, who |
was the English champion last year.
The American began by taking three
puts on each of the first two greens.
I wondered if he had ever done that
before. At any rate, he quickly put
away childish things and, playing beau
tifully, he went ahead step by step
until he won, and 4.
And now for the great semi-dnal
between the two Americans. It was
full of good golf and full of excite
ment, but somehow not quite what We
anticipated.
Instead of two precise machines fol-
lowing one another, shot for shot, we
saw two eminently human men, each
palpably frightened by his enemy and
each giving ordinary proofs of ordinary
human frailty.
If Bobby had lost-and never was a
champion nearer losing-it would have
been his putting that did it. His golf
up to the greens was as good as ever,
but he could not hole the doubtful
little ones.
He must have missed a half dozen
puts, feet and less. No one of them
was objectionable, but their cumulative
effect was devastating. Some of them
were for halves, but most of them were
for wins. AS well as Voigt played, Jones
nearly always had the last chance, but
could not take it.
Both Start Well.
The most elementary piece of golfng
psychology Is that when you have a
number of chances and do not take
them the time will come when your
enemy In turn will get his chance and
take it. Voigt did get his chance and
did take it and then threw it away
again with both hands.
The match had a dramatic start in
q half at 8, Voigt holing from Is feet
and Jones from 10. Voigt bunkered
and lost the second. He should have
squared at the fourth, but took three
puts. Bobby was still ] up, but putted
very weakly at the fifth hole and lost i
his advantage.
voigt played the sixth badly and
again Jones became up. only to throw
1t away at the seventh by a really
dreadful putt. The next three holes
were halved, but Bobby might well
have won two of them if he could have
cltnched things on the green. Clearly
this could not go on and it did not
Voigt, having the honor, played a
beauty to the short eleventh, the sort
OF shot that makes your enemy feel
that the best he can look for is a half.
But Bobby was too bold. He overran
and lost, to 3.
George was / up for the first time.
and 1t looked as if he would hang on
like grim death.
Another half followed, and then
very scratchy, scrambling by Bobby
and 5-foot putt holed by Voigt with
the utmost confidence.
"Bobbys beaten!"
Tide Suddenly Turns.
You could hear it all about you in
the crowd, and he looked beaten. Voigt
had only to keep steady a thing which
Is olthcult Tor most OF us, but seemed
simple for him.
With sudden rush the tide turned.
and Voigt went out of bounds, though
he had the whole parish to drive into
and that meant, besides the loss in dis
tance, penalty of one stroke, and Voigt
was down to ! up
At the fifteenth Voigt had 6-foot
putt and Bobby 4-footer. Voigt missed
ana the crowd gaSped. Eobby missed
after him and the crowd groaned It
was stand-off, but Voigt did not profit
by 1t, for he put his next drive into
bunker, and Bobby never gave him the
ghost of chance to recover. The match
was all square now.
The next hole was greatly played by
Doth. Two good shots to right strategic
positions at the foot of the hill and
Bobby played the odd. It was a good
one, but not supremely good, being 10
Feet short. Voigt played as great a shot
as ne ever will play-stone dead at the
side Of the hole.
Death now stared Bobby between
the eyes. If he missed that putt
George Voigt would be dormy ] and
would never let him slip ahead again
and the British championship was as
good as gone. Bobby holed it-all honor
to him.
Valley Fatal to VOigt.
could not see the hole for the crowd,
but Bobby's attitude was eloquent
At the last hole Voigt was short in
the fatal Valley of Sin, and Bobby played
a superb pitch within feet of the
hole. Voigt ran up feet short. Bob
bys ball went straight for the hole.
His hand went out to pick it out of the
cup, but 1t stopped suspended on the
very last blade of grass.
Then Voigt missed for half, rather
sad anti-climax, but what match it
had been between these two great
golfers!
Bobby's score was u.s. and It is the
highest testimony to him that we think
1t bad showing for him. Heaven knows
what his score would have been with
better putting.
Now Bobby meets Roger Wethered,
who has been playing in-and-out golf
with amazing courage and some bril-
liant streaks. Bobby will start off on his
favorite long trail of 36 holes, and
should win. But there is this to be said,
that Wethered, at st. Andrews, is far
better than Wethered anywhere else. He
has raere room and less rnilpt there