Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
Score for Tournament 287,
Lacking but One of a.
Year. 0Id Mark.
WINNER is UNCERTAIN
UP TO LAST STROKE
Mac Smith, in Sensational Fight,
Falls Two Short of Victory.
Horton Smith Third.
BY ALAN GOULD,
ASepniatad Draes cnarte NITr;t..

INTERLACHEN CLUB, Minneapolis,
Mimi, July 12.-The king of all the
golfers, flushed with the heat of one of
the greatest battles of his career strobe
to the home hole today with his throne
trifle shaky, the professional light
brigade in hot pursuit and a 40-foot
putt over the rolling turf before him.
While close to 10000 spectators held
their breath, Bobby Jones stepped up
briskly and hit the ball straight and
true into the cup for a birdie 3 that
closed the door to all challengers,
clinching his fourth victory and sue
ceSsful defense of the open golf cham
pionship of the United States.
The reverberating roar that greeted
the final stroke of the master shot
maker of them all sounded the knell OF
what few lingering hopes remained as
the all-conquering son of the South
completed his third major golfing tri-
Ilnph of the year at home and abroad.
All that Bobby needs to do now to
make it a clean sweep for 1880, with all
four major British and American titles
dangling from one mans belt FOR the
first time in history, is to recapture the
United States amateur crown at Phlla-
delphia in September.
Jones, with successive rounds OF
71-73-68-75, finished his conquest
today with total of 287, the second
lowest total in the history of the Amer
lean open and only one stroke short OF
the record set IA years ago by Chick
Evans at the nearby Minikhada course.
Leads Mac Smith by Two.
It gave him winning margin of two
80 Vet-
eran Macdonald Smith of New York,
who made a gallant, sensational flight
that fell Just trif1e short OF overhaul
ing the peerless Georgian in the mai
round.
Mac Smith, alone of the star profess
SIGNALS to stand the gaff of the final
day after Jones had burned up the
course with a record-breaking third
round, finished with rounds=ot 10
75-74-70, for total of 2S9, to clinch
second place.
Horton Smith. the 22-year-old Mis-
souri, professional who shot himself into
the lead at the halfway mark only to
crack under the strain today, wound
up in third place, five strokes back OF
Jones, with 72-70-76-74-292. Fourth
place went to Lighthouse Harry Cooper
of Chicago, with figures of 72-72-73-
76-293 Fifth was the veteran John
(IOlOen OF DdTleE, OOIlIl., Will
7l-76-294, while the rest of the pro-
fessional clan, including such early
threats as Tommy Armour, Johnny
Farrell, Charles Lacey and Walter
Hagen, fell by the wayside, put to rout
by the % year old wizard from
Georgia. -,
To show just how badly beaten the
big stars were, Armour finished 10
strokes to the rear with 297,, Lacey
wound up with 298 after making
dark horse" threat, Farrell finished
with 299, Leo Diegel with 301, Hagen
with 300, Denny Shute with 305 and
Gene Sarazen with 306.
Third Round Perfect.
Jones, as it turned out, really clinched
the championship. He has now four
times since 1923 by shooting an almost
flawless SO on the third round, the
lowest he has ever scored in the Amer
lean open and a mark that might just
as we'll have been as low as 66, but for
some shoddy work on the last two holes.
This gave Jones a five-stroke margin
at the end of 81 holes over his nearest
rival Cooper and a seven-stroke lead
over Mcdonald Smith. Yet, with all
this "velvet" to rest on, Bobby suddenly
found himself in the midst OF one OF
the stiffest fights of his career to hold
an advantage that seemed insurmount-
able at the outset. Into his closing
round was packed most of the drama
IroptirIIad an pace rolIIYor o.