Evening star., 1932-09-22
EXHIBITIONS ALSO
OUT OF HIS SCHEME
Tired Of Crowds, Abdicated
Emperor Plans to Enjoy
Game With Friends.
BY w. r. McCALLUM,

OUe-tlIlle WOFlQ eIIlQctUT u
i golf, is finally and abSo-
lutely finished with COM
petitive golf, even if it be only in
exhibition matches. The young
man from Atlanta, who, at the
age of q in 1880, held the four
major world golf titles, and who,
during the seven-year stretch
from 1924 through 1880 won 13
major championships in both the
big golflng countries of the world,
is tired of the roar of the crowd
and wants to get away from it all.
Furthermore, he is tired of being
tdolized at golf tournaments. which he
attends as writer, and would like to
remain in the background, where he
would be spectator in fact as well as
in name Bobby must have writer's
cramp after that amateur championship
tournament at Baltimore, for he must
have autographed thousands of pro-
grams and what-not during the six
days of the title chase as he watched
Ross Somerville win the title it took
him seven years to an9ex.
THE tip-off on Bobby's future plans
L came to me from the lips of Bob
himself. I had been asked by two
Norfolk friends to introduce them to
Jones in order that they might ask him
to play in charity match at Princess
Anne. Before the spokesman for the
Norfolk hospitals had gotten half way
through his Introductory statement,
Bobby OWNED their mission and said:
I'm sorry, gentlemen, but am abso-
lutely finished with that sort of thing.
Il have two more exhibition matches
scheduled. the results of promises of
several years standing. When I have
played in them I am finished. I will
be glad to play friendly round of golf
with either of you, but I cannot and
will not consent to an exhibition match
with a lot of publicity and a large gal
lery. Frankly, I am tired of playing
before galleries. I have reached the
stage where I do not enjoy it at all l
do enjoy meeting people and talking
with them about golf. but as for play
ing before large galleries. that is all
over. For me a friendly round of golf
gives me more pleasure than a dozen
big exhibition matches for competitive
golf. I do not care any longer to have
people stepping on my ball. crowding
me when / play shot or idolizing
either me or my game with which I
have been lucky enough to have had
scre success. Gentlemen, am through,
definitely and finally"
COULD anything be more positive
~ than that statement from the lips
of the man who won more ajor
titles in a short stretch than any golfer
who ever lived? Does 1t leave any
doubt as to where Bobby Jones stands?
It is symbolic of Bobby himself and
the character of the man. From the
day back in November, 1880, when
Bobby announced he was through with
competitive golf, he has not shown the
slightest indication to take up his war
game. He has been consistent all the
way through, as all public idols
should be.
He has been paid handsomely for his
motion picture work In connection with
golf instruction, although not as hand
somely as some folk think. Neverthe-
less, Bobby has done fairly well for
man not yet so years of age. He is
slated to make another series OF movie
Hollywood, somewhat along the lines OF
the original motion pictures made in
the early Winter of 1881. Bobby is Sc
rious about this business of showing all
his secrets via the films in the hope
it will aid in raising the general
standard of golf in the United States.
The young man has an idea that he
may be the great uplifter of struggling
American golfers Heaven knows. most
of them need some uplift, and if Jones
can help them he Will have gone long
way toward attaining his own goal and
aiding others at the same time.
You cannot view the broad scale of
the Jones view on golf and life and not
Fundamentally admire Robert T.
Jones, jr.
Col Edward Clifford, former Treas
ury Department official and an ardent
golfer who plays at Burning Tree and
Chevy Chase, has just returned to
Washington after twc-month tour of
many famous British golf courses. Col.
Clifford played 33 rounds on 81 courses
in England and Scotland, including all
the famous courses on which cham
pionships have been won.
A LMOST five years to the day since
n Maurice ]. Mccarthy. former
Georgetown star, set new record
for the Washington Golf and Country
Club course with a mark of Sc, Dave
Thompson, the Washington pro, has
succeeded in tieing McCarthy's mark
For five years Dave and the flock of
other amateurs and professionals have
been trying to tie or better the 66 made
by Mccarthy on September %, 1927.
Not until Yesterday has any one tied
the score. although three amateurs of
the Washington club, as we'll as Thomp-
son. have scored CTS over the course.
Dave was playing In a four-ball
match with P. w. Calfee. r. T. Herrell
and Frank K Roesch. He started with
bird 3 at the first hole, and got out
in "a picking up two BRIDES over the
first nine. He bagged three more birds
On the second nine for mark of 30.
Only on Cne hole did the little Scot go
over par
This came at the fourth. where he
made careless chip shot and took 6
on this par 5 affair. Otherwise he
clung to par with relentless persistency.
After starting the last nine with brace
of brides. Dave sensed try for the
record. On the last three holes he had
reasonable puts for brides of 20 feet
or less Each one ran up to the lip
Ol LIE cup dllu SldySu Oul. INOSoSi, q
former District champion, scored 7S,
which locked mediocre against the sub
par IS scored by Thompson.
Here is the card which tied the
record:
Out
FS5 Thompson -: sstsst4sssssss1s
In
fis Thompson 'ss ::::::: sst4ss4t tss-ss tssEss
DR.. William P. Haynes scored an
eagle deuce at Washington by driving
the first green, 300 yards from the tee,
and holing the putt. Several deuees
have been made on this hole, but most
of them have been accomplished by
holing pitch shots.
THE team which will represent Wash
L.. tnl, i.,ck Dol