The Washington times., 1930-09-27
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Jones Deemed Absolute Cinch
10 Defeat Eugene Homans
!. In Final 36-HoIe Match
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the rough, while Homans trapped
his. drive. He used spoon from
the trap and found the rough
some rs yards from the green.
Jones played a great shot from
the sand, landing Is feet from
the pin. Homans got a beauty
within nine feet Of the pin. Jones
then was three feet short with
his approach putt and then
missed this. getting a half in SIS.
IL Sixth Hole Halved
3 They halved the sixth in as.
Jones outdrove Homans. Bobby
then shot q midiron about 40
feet from the pin. So did
Homans. Homans then played
run.up, four feet from the pin.
Bobby duplicated the shot and
sank the putt. Romans did like
wise. n
HomanS got a par to win the
seventh, his first hole. This made
him 2 down. Jones drove $50
yards and Homans outdrove him
by 5. On the approach shots,
Homans was IL feet away while
Bob was 25 feet off. He was two
feet shy with his approach after
which Homans missed his H.
footer by inches, laying Jones a
partial stymie, which Bobby failed
10 get around taking a 5.
They halved the eighth in par
Is. Both were down the middle
about 260 yards with Homans
slightly in front. Bobby's n1aSaie
niblick landed 10 feet from the
pin. Homans was just on the
edge of the green and his ap-
proach putt missed by inches,
laying Jones a dead stymie. Bobby
putted to within an inch and
they called it half.
HOmans Comedies One
From the ninth tee Homans
shot into the creek. He ultimately
conceded the hole with a 4
against a 8, which made him 3
down again.
Jones then won the tenth with
g. a against a s..
On this hole Homan's shot
went into the crowd and hit a
Boy Scout.
> Jones finally got his birdie at
the eleventh to become 5 up.
y Bobby, long overdue, dropped q
2S-footer for a 3.
~ Next Two Halved
Jones took a 4 on the twelfth
and so did Romans, leaving Jones
5 up.
7 Bobby almost holed his H.
tooter for a birdie. They also
halved the thirteenth in par IS.
Jones took 4 at the four.
teenth and Homans q 5 to make
Bobby 6 up. Homans, on in 8,
was 10 feet short with his ap-
proach putt from the edge of
the green, and Jones, on in two,
barely missed his 12footer but
Homans couldn't get down with
his 10footer, so Jones won with
2 par 4.
Just Another Birdie
Jones followed with a birdie 8
against Q 5 at the fifteenth to
become z up. ....
Both drives Rugged the left
side Of the fairway, with Jones
a. trifle ahead. Here Jones hit q
great maShie niblick to within
8 feet Of the pin. BY this time
the gallery was beginning to look
at the scenery.
Jones went 8 up by winning
t. sixteenth with q 4against a S.
Homans rolled his approach
dead to the pin, whereupon Jones
also was on the lip with his r.
footer to score par 4. It looked
like halved hole but Homans,
visibly disturbed by the course Of
the match, missed a one-footer
and lost the hole.
The short seventeenth saw
Romans finally win with q
birdie 2 against a buzzard 4,
making Jones z up.
Bobby's second shot, mashie,
was 10 feet away and he missed
the. putt. Without further ado.
he walked over to HomanS' ball
and knocked it away, conceding
q birdie. Bobby obviously was
trying to avoid beating this
young opponent too badly.
AT the eighteenth Jones got
his second home about 10 feet
from the pin. Homans approach
was over the green. Romans
then chipped back 16 feet from
the pin.
Homans then made a fighting
finish of it by waiting his 16-
footer home. Jones missed with
his first putt but got his second,
down for a half in as.
viii Aid His Friends
II. he wins today, this certain
Mr.. Jones will cash for many
friends and some visiting r'''n,.
ers q 50-to-1 bet which has been
riding agains' n
the thing that only Jones can do.
He won the amateur cham,
pionShip in June. r."
He won the British open and
amateur. championships in June.
Now, in September, there
doesn't seem to be the slightest
chance that he won't win the
amateur championship Of Amer
lea before nightfall and thus at
tain heights never hefora at-