Show OBBY BY GRABS S SOUTHERN OYT ERN OPEN CHAMPIONS HIP oJ F Golfer Tops Field by I Eight Strokes on J.-I J. Home e Course ours e II a 11 and Golden to toi I Ia i Stage Playoff for Ci a Purse ATLANTA Ga March 26 AP- AP obby Jones open golf golt champIon ot of otI I United States and Great Britain I o title today when he t Lured the southern open at East Easter t k er Country club his home Ie urse urse He played the 72 holes In eight strokes ahead of Johnny 1 rrell New York and John GoldI Gold Gold- paterson N N. J J. J who tied forand for and ond place and the money and ird for the leading professional icy ey had scores ot of 1 I Tournament officials announced tt the first and second money ar ards s would be divided between pros ros but the players later i. i tamed permission to play playoff off an II hole match for first money over lEast Lake courSe Monday aft att- I w noon the loser to take second t oney ot of 1750 I CLOSE BEHIND Al Grand Rapids was as ose behind b Golden and Farrell Farren followed by Leo Diegel e ew York who had Ge George rge Voigt Washington ama ama- ur fInished tenth with and j atts Gunn Atlanta amateur was with the same score rn reed d in by Walter Hagen lurt Early in the day it was seen that would be for second secondi i lace ace Bobby Jones with scores of land fand 66 was far ahead of the I the close of the first 36 l the professionals set out t tor orla a battle among themselves for 1 ip be second place position and first oneY Bobby Obby finished strong in both his and afternoon rounds He a chip shot from the edgo lit green for a birdie two to in the round that gave him a 71 and afternoon he got a long put I Its It wn for 72 s Bobby was not on his game today b d he played great golf for player he was not hit hit- shots that gave him a 66 It He did not have to for forI III I so far ahead he could coast t UT JN IN PAR PAR chamPion went out in par on round after a poor taking a five on the par four r I He pIcked up a birdie t file seventh and played the rest f the e holes perfectly Coming home he be slipped on two t ole he be needed one more than han Par and had to wait until the to get one of them back the afternoon he was one over i par on each sIde plaYing the first firs t nine in par with one exception 0 On n the second and last nine he got birdies to offset three holes where a stroke over par was needed The he tight fight for second place was different I Golden was leading Farrell by one stroke until the seventeenth green where with both well on in two Farrell dropped a forty foot putt for forn fora n a birdie three against Goldens Golden's four Coming to the eighteenth Goldens Golden's tee shot carried to the yard green while Farrell was short below be- be below low the banked green Farrell FarreH pitched dead to the pin and was down easily in three Golden laid his approach putt dead and dropped the next one to share in the money |