Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-17

amateur there could be no question Of
suhterfuge or concealment. The rules
OF the game, whatever they were, have
respected, sometimes even beyond the
letter. ! certainly shall never become
professional golfer. but since am
no longer a competitor, feel free to
act entirely outside the amateur rule,
as my judgment and conscience may
decide.
when these pictures have been made
I expect TO return to the practice Of
my profession unhampered by the neces-
sity Of keeping my golf up to cham
pionship requirements.
H. H. Ramsay, who will be president
OF the u. 8. @. A. next year, issued
the following statement:
Il have seen Bobby'S statement. He
has Internationally during his career
made the greatest competitive record
in the history of the game. Aside from
that, though, his character and person
atty are such that he has become q
popular world figure. HIS withdrawal
from competition will be greatly re-
GREETED by every one"
Two Defeated Jones.
The retirement of the only real world
champion that golf has ever known fol-
lows the recent withdrawal from anna
teur competition of the only two play
ers holding decisions over Jones in
United States amateur play of the past
seven years-George Won Elm of Los
Angeles and Johnny Goodman of
Omaha.
Won Elm, who beat Jones in the 1926
championship final, at Baltusrol. N. j.,
retired from the amateur field after the
1880 championship at the Merlon Crick-
ct Club. He announced his status as
that of a business man" golfer in order
to be in position TO accept prize money
in any open tournament he entered.
Recently he won $500 by finishing in q
tie for third honors at Salt Lake City,
Utah.
Goodman, who sprang a sensation by
defeating Jones at Pebble Beach in
the first round of the 1929 tournament,
the first amateur championship ever
held In California, also declared him
self out of amateur competition, be-
cause of the expense involved.
Won Elm In Limelight
Although Jones has stood head and
shoulders above all rivals, he has shared
with Won Elm for a number Of years
the recognition Of being foremost among
the amateurs.
Professional golf stars of the United
States, after trailing Jones for the
fourth time in the open championship
this year at Minneapolis, discussed the
possibility of the Georgians retirement,
thereby leaving the field open again to
the money players. Most Of them re-
marked, however, that victory in any
open tournament in which Jones was
not. competitor would leave the win
ner in the embarrassing position of
being champion Of every one but
Jones"
Will Demonstrate Game.
The talking pictures which Jones will
make for Warner Bros. will be entitled
How / Play Golf" and will demon.
strate all his shots from putting and
driving to the most elaborate methods
of bunker playing.
He will leave on March / for Holly
wood, and meanwhile Warner Bros. will
send q scenario writer to Atlanta TO
work out continuity for the series. The
series will have no story, and Jones
will be the only character in them,
unless he elects to have his caddy APP
pear also in the films. In that event,
he will take with him to the Pacific
Coast his fayorite caddy from his At
lanta club.
Warner Bros. did not announce what
Jones would be paid for the series of
pictures. The company understands
that he win devote himself entirely,
after his motion picture work Is COM
pleted,, 70 the practice Of law, and that
hts screen appearance will therefore be
his last before the public. y
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more automobiles were bought for per-
sonal use IN thA prairie provinces Of