The Washington times., 1930-11-18
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NEW YORK. Nov. 1s.-Profes-
sional golfers got out their cry
ing towels today and mourned
sl1e retirement of Robert Tyre
Jones from active competition.
None OF them wants to win the
open championship next year be-
cause there will be no thrill in
beating a field that does not in
ciude the Atlanta wizard.
The title, carrying with 1t an
earning power of $4,000 from
exhibitions and other sources,
will be but an empty honor If
Jones Is not listed among the
winners victims.
The winner Of the bauble In
1891 will be known not as the
open champion, but merely as the
man who captured the title when
Bobby Jones was not competing.
This distressing state of af.
fairs was revealed today in the
wake of the emperor's abdication
from golfdom to make q series
Of motion pictures on golf in
struction.
"I would rather be second to
Jones than win the open title
without him." said Willie Mac
Farlane, who beat the Atlanta
prodigy In a play-Off for the
title in 1925.
"Al open tourney without
Bob will fall fiat" predicted
Johnny Farrell, who defeated
Jones I'm q sensational play.
off i'm 1928.
II wouldn't want to win un.
less Bobby was there" com.
mentcd little Bobby Cruick-
shank, who lost to the Allan.
tan In another play.Off i'm 1923,
when Jones annexed the open
crown for the first time after
seven years Of bitter disappOint-
ment.
All three were flabbergasted by
the news of the champions re-
tirement. 1t took Cruickshank
three minutes to digest the an
nouncelnent when interviewed by
international News Service last
evening.
While he declared that the re.
tirement of Jones would be a
distinct loss to championship golf.
the mighty atom from Scotland
admitted that professionals would
forget psychology and play golf
In next years open tourney.
"YOu know, Jones had a de-
naOralizing influence on u.s."
he continued. 1--WE had the
Jones cOmplex-we couldn't
play our best game-there
was always the thought in
the back Of our heads that
we couldn't afford to make
q single mistake. But all the
boys will be sorry to see him
leave"
Cruickshank predicted that
with Jones out of the way,
Charley Seaver, Of California. or
Don Moe, Of Portland. Ore, would
win the 1891 Amateur Champion.
snip. He ranks this pair ahead
OF Jess SweetSer, George Voigt.
Maurice Mccarthy, Johnny Good.
man and Gene Homans. Seaver,
according to veteran Scot. is the
outstanding find among the anna
teurS.
MacFarlane expressed a desire
to see what Jones could do IN
active competition with the new
and larger golf ball which comes
INTO use January 1st.
with the new ball coming
I'm, everyone would want to
know what he would do with
IL In open competition.
In one way I think Bobby
Is foolish to retire. because he.
has proved himself the finest
medal player in the world"
Farrell thinks that the zast of
competition and the roar Of the
crowd" will lure the Atlanta bar.
rister back to tournament play.
Il think Bobby win feel
the urge to come back soon
er or LATER" said Johnny. eff
he does remain in retirement
it will be q bad thing for PRO-
fessiOnaI golf, but will stimu-
late interest in amateur golf.
He has so far OutcIassed his
field i'm the amateur tOurna-
ments that his competitors
had little chance"
Farrell made the point that
Jones has helped professional
golfers by keeping interest in the
sport alive and thus causing
thousands to take up the game.
Both Gene SaraEen and /
made as much money on ex-
hibitiOn tours during the
past two years as we did In