The Washington times., 1930-07-08
F FOES
NEVERSTAGE
COMEBACK
BY DAVIS J. WALSH

MINNEAPOLIS, MIMI, July D.
When Jones beat them, they stay
beaten, thereupon and forever
henceforth.
There are, roughly speaking, a
matter of $50 good men and true
working out today over Inter.
Iachen's rolling terrain in prepara-
ton for the great drama of the
open championship, starting two
days hence. But approximately
l45 of them are wasting their
dubious time. Only the old guards
seem to have chance with
JoneS-the old-line champions OF
the past, the Hagens, the Sara
zens and the Diegels.
Gone are futile challengers that
came forward overnight to meet
Bobby in man-to-man tests, and
as suddenly subsidized.
There is no talk here of what
Joe Turnesa may do. Everybody
knows what Joseph will do, or at
least they think they know. He
has done nothing with painstak-
ing zeal since the year 1925, when
he led Jones IN the final nine
holes at Scioto and forthwith col.
lapsed, never to be the same
again.
AL WatrOus furnished an
other narrowing example of
the dire effects that follow in
the way of q Jones triumph.
In the same year of 1925, AL
also led Jones by two strokes
with three holes to play in the
British open. But Bobby came
on 20 win as only Bobby can, and
Watrous. convinced for all time,
relapsed into an obscurity in
which he remains to this day.
Where is Bobby CruickShank?
Who Jared forth at InWood in 1928
to take issue with Jones over an
other championship? Cruickshank
isn't even in the field this year,
having failed to qualify. woulu
also like to inquire about the &C
tivities of Roland Hancock, who
practically won the 1928 cham
pionship at Olympia Fields-but
forgot to keep it won. Roland
has been doing the best he can
since that memorable day. but his
best is pretty much like Kipling's
worst.
That seems to apply, too, to
AL Espinosa, who finished in a
dead heat with Jones last year
and lived to regret the incident
exceedingly. Jones beat him Is
strokes in the play-off, and Es-
pinosa no longer is considered a
golfer worthy of real champion.
ship consideration.
They say DensnOre Shute
is playing none too well at
the moment, and here is an
other young man who had
Jones beaten, only he neg
lected to make the matter
permanent.
Shute "blew up" in sight of the
finish in 1929, and perhaps his
failure to come on as he should
this year and at this time can be
| attributed to the memory of the
dramatic and. to him, painful fin
iSh at Winged Foot. Personally,
/ think not. Shute won the $10,-
900 Los Angeles open last winter
and, if he isn't. playing golf now,
it probably means nothing, except
that he isn't playing golf now.
Of all Jones' victims, this man
would seem to have a real chance
at Interlachen. It is almost as
much his kind OF. a course as it
is Jones', or Diegels, or Sarazen'S,
or Hagen's. He has the golf, he
can come from behind, he can
stay in front. This would seem
to leave him little to do, except
for the slight formality of win
ming the open championship.
However, Jones must look to
the challengers he has known
through his great seven years of
| prosperity, for. the man. if any.
who is to say him nay in this
championship, of the younger
school only Shute and Horton
Smith, and possibly Ed Dudley,
have white mans chance.
Otherwise, it will be strictly up
to Hagen. Sarazen and Diegel to
furnish the challenge, or account
to most accounts there will be
none at all.