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Show JONES FINALLY OVERCOMES JINX AND NOW HEADS AMERICAN GOLFERS ENGLISH GOLFER r PICKED JONES : ASSTAR "AUanU Golfer Has Lot! . 1 Many Tournament by One Stroke V By Robert EJgren c Bobhv Jonas of Atlanta, wtnnlnt ' th nmttftnal opan gait champion ship, took a ptaca at tha had of Amtrlnn a;oir that aaa aMrv4 far at taut two y-aara. . . Varrtnn waa tha firat to acquaint tha world with tha fact that Bobby Jnnaa had tba ttaaraat thlnf to par-fxt par-fxt rolNna: form avar ma la lota Country, What Warrr aroti aafff. fjiacrry. wan: "Tha la la tna wnrld'a rraiut ityllatr Amartcan folio war of tolf wara flutrfct t pick up tha graat Gogllah alfar'a ramark about Jotia ilwn avaryona bran to try to firura rut Juat why Jonaa hadn't rt takan anv . of tha bis; championahtpa alihoujrh h had won tha Soutnm tnraa tlmaa. Th "Bobby Jonoa llm" brama naarly a flunoua aa Bobby Janaa. JONB HAD HAMO TIMB WITH JINX. It amad that Bobby Jonaa fiavar would at orar that Jinx. Oolf asv rarta bcan to Urura that ha'd alwart mt fall abort of wlnntnf tha bif 1 1 ilea, amateur or opan. Tha Jtaa -m rlrtina; him hard, a vary tlm. In apite of hia magnificent natural play tnjr form, aeknorwiadgrd to ba aa naar prfctinn m anyona can coma In aoif. nia amastna recrda on varioua coumpfi and nla aplattdtd match play. Jong waa Ulna old. IHa waa on tha near edara of 21, not old for tha vraa-.roifr, but a) mo, and ant for Robrt, who won hia ftrat aactlonal championship whan ha waa 14. upaat-tlnr upaat-tlnr all tradltlona and provinf thai gnif isn't "an old man'a amc," Thar 'a an old aavtn athat lurk haa a lot to do with winning champtoa-Phlpaj, champtoa-Phlpaj, and Bobhv Jons didn't aaam to hava any luck. Hut ha kept oa -rvtna; Tou can t alwaya hold dowa a fallow who nerar lva up. OUALir(H AT FOURTEEN. -At H Hobby qualified In tha imi-tur imi-tur champtonahlp at Morion and won . ht firat two match oa before loaing te . hoprt Gsrdnar, who waa runner-up to t.ilrk tvmni. At Oakmont h waa hTH away from tha champtonablp by - ri-'rron of Ptttabura; who ahot a carJ - cf avn fo-ira In tha afternoon round. Tnen at tha Knginaara het mat Kran-r Kran-r m Oviimat, waa thraa down In tha tnomtiia; and couldn't beat Outnat'l round of ona ovar foura la tha afiar- Oonn. No mattar how thy playM again at ot dra, w hn they mat Jonaa they Mi . era anrt rrackad record a. uimt, af' diarKiatna; of rthby, fH off nine atrokca next day afainat a.ana. At St. T.ouia Jonaa ahot a 7 ag-atlnat WliMa Hunlar In tha finishing two up. and In tha afternoon Hunlr avr-Bd avr-Bd fours for tha aavenlaaa hoiaa pi.vH. an hough ha had ona evn. Next bui.by Jonna, tryln for tha amateur till, mat Jeaa Bwaatiar, wntn Joaa waa p'avtne; Ilka a mlr-arl mlr-arl wrker. Hweiar waa four undar four for tha niauh. JOMt IS t fe.AT EN AOAtN. On tha aacond ktolo la tha mom trg round txitb ware about aurhty rtrda from t ho grn on l ha drive. Uwtr plavod hia second with g ii snd in-nia nibMck and tha ball d'oii:(l Juat short of tha cup and rolled In for an aavlo Z. Jonaa droppI hts aatond tan tncrtaa from the cup, for a bitdla X. It waa lust Jours' lurk to have his hlrdi Itaatan. Ill tna tournamont Jeaa holed si ahoia tiom off oa groon. Iat aar tha Atlanta boy eamn wltlnn a stroke of tha winning st-ota In tna nutlet al ofn cbampionalilp. rinaj wtth John Hack for aaoond rf-e whan O'-nt Karatan cams tnrouah and won In tha final round ih a marvalous AS. hhhy Jonn has tirnJ out a f" - g r : -a. hlmtaif. Ona of his uaed two putts for a 4. which waa two over par for the hola. Crulckahank, finishing later, ahot a birdie 4 on the sigh teen th hole, equalling Jonaa' score. The piaVff next day waa a gruelling match, strokes all even at the seventeenth. But here Jones came up like a champion and ahot a htrdie I where he'd had 4 ths -day before, and won, Ort of the remarkable things about Bobby Jones' winning of the big tournament waa that he baa had tittle tlm for golf thla year. A law atu-dant atu-dant at Harvard, he haa had te give Mil hie time to hi atudlea. He didn't even gat away to go to England with the American team whan ftfweeteer waa permitted to take time off at Yale. Jonas la aald to be more In teres ter-es tad In his atudlea than in golf. And that a another remarkable thing. (Copyright, If 21. by tha Bell Syndicate, Syndi-cate, Inc.) i moat satonlahlng records waa made ! on the 4v0O-yerd ICaat Lake course at ; Atlanta, where he made a record ainaahtr.g as. in the final matches of 1 the Southern amateur championship at Chattanooga he shot 9 and Tit. In lit hoioe of play In three open chara-1 chara-1 plonahipe he had 891 stroa-e. a pr-! pr-! forma nee battered only by Walter Ha t on. who had 994. Hobby Jonas began playing when he saa only 4 years old. Ha laid out a little course of hte own. la the front yard and acroaa the road, and pr s-tised s-tised with an old claek. . J 4TAPT4TO OAMI V-EPV VOUNQ. . His father played at th East Lake course, naar tha houee, and seeing that Boboy Ilk ad the gams, bought htm a set of small cm be and got permission per-mission for him to play on tha clue course wtisn It wasn't crowded. Without any coarhlng or training the youngster worked out a goifms atyle of his own, and perhaps pick up a few points by wat. hing Stawwrt Maiden, the club professional. When he waa 18 he was plavlng like a Cham- i pion, and was already a tremendous i driver. I He is a long, gtrsnght driver, today, frequently hitting lit yards. Chirk Kvans says that Jenee gate hia right side into the drive mora than anv una else he ever saw. Ha hits with little a pparent effort, vary smoothly, and ems navar to preae. Jones knorked out the Jlns In this yaar'a national open by shooting won-dorful won-dorful golf In playing tf1 the tie with Hob Crulkahank. In ths final round on Haturdaiy It lokod aa If the jinx waa going- to score again. Hot. by had 1 in apite of a poor finish. On the seventeenth he dropped his aecond Into a hunkae and scored S a. and en the eighteenth cent hia ascend into ths crowd, du brd a chip shot tan ..ai-d Into S trap, sot On in four and |