The Washington times., 1930-07-07
AND.
FARRELL
LOOM
BY DAVIS !. WALSH.

Dy DANA9 80 WVSAGGAA
NEW YORK, July THE over.
ture is stilled, the lights are
lowering and out in the body Of
the house, falls the vital, ting.
ling hush that seems to be the
inevitable prelude to big
moment. The curtain is about to
rise upon the drama that only
q great open golf championship
can inspire, greater than ever
this time because Bobby Jones.
the big two-title man just in
from England, is playing every
body for his third championship
Of the year and the thing they
call human-intereSt viii 60 in for
yeritable orgy of emotionalisn1.
The open championship will be
played over the Interlachen
course at Minneapolis on Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday Of
this week and, while the pres
sure Of the 72-hole contest is on,
its suspense will fairly clutch q.
nation by the throat.
Jones, back from England and
his tremendous victories in the
British amateur and open cham
piOnShipS, is the sentimental
favorite because the four major
championships Of America. and
England are the goal Of his
hearts desire and everybody loves
winner. He also is the, prac-
tica1 fAvorite. it being considered
execrable taste to bet against
success.
And Jones, with his record
Of IL major titles since 1928
and the fact that, with one
exception, he has been no
worse than second in the
open since that year, repre-
sents more than success. He ],
practically stands for infalli-
biIity.
The odds say he will fail this
time. He has won too much:
tired, sated with honors, he is
due to lose. Some trace an
affinity between Interlachen and
Oakmont and aver that this isn't
the type they call a Jones course,
which is so much hair tonic.
When Jones is playing golf, every
course is strictly a Jones course,
Another thing If Jones can win !.
two championships in England
when he isn't. by the admission of
himself and others, playing golf.
ne can win one championship
when he Is. It isn't Characteristic
OF Bobby Jones to be off stride for
longer than day or two at q
time. BY q natural sequence of
events, he would be hitting his
shots again in the old. lashing
Jones way at Minneapolis-if it
wasn't for the suspicion that st.
Andrews and Hoylake took more
out of him than nature yet has
been able to put back.
However, nobody has the te-
merity to ask, who will beat Jones
at Interlachen? A more sensible
query would be, who can beat
him?
There are four men who
face q great chance Of sue
cess in this con me ion,
namely, Horton Smith, Leo
DiegeE, Ed Dudley and Wal
ter Hagen, provided he is the
rejuvenated specimen they
call him to be.
To this list might be added the
names of Gene Sarazen and
Johnny Farrell. and possibly Mac
Smith, AL ESpinoSa and George
Won Elm. The latter is always
held out as q pretournament
threat in the open and always the
posting of the final returns finds
him languisl1ing in the outer dark.
ness. Maybe he is due this time.
/ don't think so.
Neither do / think that ESpi-
noSa is the man to recover from
the 23-Stroke denouement by
which Jones won the 1929 cham
pionShip in q playoff that was s
strictly.a payoff from the moment
they arrived at the first tee. Nor
is Mac Smith the man he once.
waS-and it is q matter of record
that, whatever he was, it wasn't
enough.
Hagen, fresh, supposedly well
trained and doubtless determined,
looks the part of Jones arch
rival. He is without q title of
any kind for the first time in
many years and, with this IN
spiration to goad him on, Hagen
will take plenty Of convincing.