Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-23
TO SING BARITONE
HIS GREAT DESIRE
Golf Emperor Has Genius for
All Sorts of PIay-He's
"Left-Eyed."
BY DILLON GRAHAM.
A TLANTA, Ga, February %

~ F).-H you gave BODDy
4 \ Jones his choice of all mas
culine attachments, he'd
like to be able to sing baritone.
Not that he aspires greatly to
I'LL the vital spot in resonant
nineteenth-hole quarters, but be-
cause one of his passions is grand
opera. He Nven likes German
opera. And he sometimes laments
that he had to be born merely to
play golf while the really lucky
people can sing.
Bobby thinks that if he has any
genius at all it is for play. H hates
work in any form He likes to hunt
and fish. The first time he ever ham
died As caliber service revolver he
planted seven of his first 10 shots within
the bull'S-eye.
But Of all strange physical complica-
lions, Bobby is right-handed and left
eyed. He holds a pistol in his right
hand but he aims with his left eye. 1t
has worked out marvelously in golf
where you fix the port side optic on the
ball and don't dare 1T your glance
stray. 1t hasn't hurt the pistol shoot
ing. But it is sore trial indeed whsn
it comes to handling a rifle or shot
gun. Bob has to keep the swell left
eye closed when he's aftcr birds with
scatter gun. He's a good trapshot
though, and swings an eager stick in
pool and billiards.
Reduces Waistline.
Bobby isn't particularly vain, but the
ballooning waistline that sometimes
afflicts the young man will be ons of
those things that will not be present
when he displays his shots before the
movie cameras of Hollywood. He won't
diet, doesn't believe in 1t, but he works
out daily with a physical director. In
less than month his weight of 1875
pounds has shrunk to ITS and inches
has disappeared from his waistline.
He Is training harder for his motion
picture debut than he ever did for a
championship golf tournament
For six years the galleries have been
remarking how much heavier the young
man has been getting, but they were
wrong. His fest Tl2 inches of height
will always give him a chunky look
Juggling his natural poundage, but it
hasn't varied much over a stretch of
years. He will be 90 two days after the
next ides Of March.
Bob has been careful Of what he
eats during a golf championship after
some rather bitter experiences at the
start OF his tournament career Last
season he took little or no breakfast.
He was ALWAYS terrifically nervous be-
fore days play or else worried because
he wasn't nervous The more nervous
he was the better he hit the ball.
Luncheon between rounds in his more
youthful days consisted Of slabs Of pie
a la mode. but they cost him too many
strokes in the afternoon. Now toast
and tea is the maximum.
He ate all he wanted Of anything
after a days tournament play, but the
last one-the final trick in golfdom's
grand slam-at Merton found him I'M
able to sleep nights. It was the big
shot, and the strain affected him more
than in any previous tourney.
Uses Cuss Words.
Bob plays golf with his favorite four
some enthusiastically, arguing over
handicapS. with gestures, sometimes
even using the naughty words. He
will stand with that evil CLEAN in his
eyes and watch the flight Of an iron
that Is on the line to the green and
discourse vehemently, concisely, bitterly
on the game in general and that one
shot In particular. He genuinely loves
BOlA. Ills COuTn6Inelb manners are the
finest in the history of the game
He came into law, the profession Of
his father, in the manner Of a pom
derous slice. He was graduated from
Georgia Tech a mechanical engineer in
1922. Then he went to Harvard for
B. S. Law overlook him as a sort Of
postscript at Emory University Now it
is his permanent job, though he has
many sidehnes He has deep-seated
aversion to selling anybody anything,
particularly real estate and bonds
Bobby spends most Of his evenings
with his wife and three youngsters. He
reads aloud to Mrs. Jones, which is bad
for his radio work, because it encour-
ages rapidity and casual infection.
He has played golf several times
with the Prince Of Wales and has been
entertained by him That is about all
anybody ever found out about it. He
says the prince is great boy and lets
It go at that
The surest way for a sports writer 70
enrage the young man is to mention
the number Of strokes he has delib-
erately penalized himself in major COM
petition. One of them cost him the
American open in 1925.
You'd as well commend me for not
picking pockets" he snorts.