New Britain herald., 1930-11-22
By LOREN DISNEY
Associated Press Sports Writer)

Ne" Orh, Nov. 't1-- N'rC IS a room in the homo Of Robert Tyre Jones. Jr. Of Atlanta which gltters with cups and medals.
 Thirteen cups are symbolic Of na- tional golf championships They will not be added to. now that the great est golfer of history has retired from such competition.
 But the cup Jones IS most proud of is little four inch affair, Hc won 1t when he was six years old. and he is not so sure that it is really his AleXa Stirling, later the wom- ems champion. Jones believes. lost it through faulty scoring in q little half dozen hole tournament.
 Though this cup, Jones first was won when most boys start 10 school. golf wasn't Bobby's first love.
 Baseball First Love
 Tn fact, 90 Bobby says, he took up the game only because there weren't enough boys 10 make up decent baseball team. out by tho Eastlake golf course in Atlanta where the family had moved.
 Bobby's first and for while only club was discarded cleak When nothing better offered, he used to follow Stewart Maiden. Scot pro- fessional, around the course.
 In spite Of numerous reports 10 the contrary, Jones never took cx- tended lessons from the Carnoustic master He says h. picked ID Maiden's technique through the nat ural imitativencss Of youth.
 During his carly years Bobby was quite frail, though he comes of ath- letic stock. But by his fourteenth year he had overcome the cause, 0 mysterious stomach ailment. That WIS the year he first entered the na- uonal amateur. It was played in the Merton Cricket club at Phila- delphia. Jones was only feet inches tall bur he weighed 165 pounds.
 starts Throw ing Clubs
 During the opening round Bobby acquired 6 reputation that followed him for years-that Of throwing clubs. Jones explains he threw clubs because he vas mad at himself for dubbing shots. He still gets mad. ne has revealed. but now the only indication is q reckoning of the ears.
 Some critics have said that this temper was one Of the reasons why Jones failed to capture major championship from his debut in 1916 until 192S.
 Jones himself thinks that these seven ,championshipless years, de spite the fact ho vas called one of the best shot makers in the amateur ranks. were due to his youthfulness and in q measure to fate.
 In the matter Of youthfulness. it Is recalled, Jones was only oi when he won his first national champion ship-the open at Inwood Jones recalls that he had many . boyish traits that were handicap ps in hard, competitive golf. Among other things, he loved 10 eat ice cream be- tween rounds. proceeding that in- variably left him feeling stuffy and out of shape.
 So many things. so many turns of fate seemed 10 balk him in those Il tournaments during this time, that Jones became something Of q fatalist in common with the many professionals who believed that a certain player is pre- destined to win a tournament.
 Becomes Grown
 Jones thinks he suddenly started playing a. grown-up game to win his first tournament. He played "Old Man Par" instead Of individual play CTS. He crashed through at Inwood, and not a year elapsed without his adding major trophy to his list.
 Bobby finds competitive golf des- perately hard work. This is one of the reasons he has quit. He lost F or 1 5 pounds in each tournament, though he can play the same amount Of casual golf and drop no weight. During his later days Jones got so he wouldn't putt without seeing the times required a nerve wracking i concentration He also concentrated on at least three components of | every drive.
 Jones is marie and is the father Of two children, Bobby Jones III, and Clara Malone Jones.