| Show VON yON ELM TRIMS CHAMPION t a y USES BORROWED EQUIPMENT I IJ J Jones one Congratulates New NevI at Close Cloe ot of Play Pl y HOPT HILLS N J S Sept ISBy IS 13 SHORT a aBy By By The Associated Press mess Will Youre Youre Youre a wonder George Geore you ou give me a II putting lesson was Bobby Dobby Jones greeting to George Von Elm Ilm new national amateur champion when the blonde west west- westerner westerner westerner erner and th champion he da- da da today reached the tle quiet quiel ot of the tho club house Sure Ill I'll tb do lIo that responded Yon Von Elm smilingly as he threw his 1115 arm around the shoulder ot of othe the Atlanta At youth I I knew Id I'd win when hen that Ion long putt dropped on the eleventh hole the new champion said I Iwas was waa playing too good golf to lost los today loss today I felt all through the tournament that Id I'd come through Only once all day did my putter go wrong wron- and that was on n the tho hole this afternoon when v I had to take tako three Th year twenty Call Call- Californian Call has another r Important en- en engagement engagement en engagement before he ho returns to the west with tho the greatest honor honor amateur golf can bestow Von Van Elm confided In the club house that he wants to see the tho Dempsey Dempsey- Tunney fight In Philadelphia on September 23 Then Ill I'll go home he said Amo Among tho the first to congratulate the new title holder was his wife Mrs Von Van Elm Ilm who threw herself herselt In his hia arms at the thirty fifth thirty hole after Bobby Dobby had shaken the hand of ot his conqueror Then rhen the gallery callery surged about Von Voa Elm Ilm Elmand Elmand and hoisting him to their shoulders shoulders ders dens marched with cheers down the eighteenth fairway towards th tha club house Some one In the crowd whistle California Here I Come Como as th the throng proceeded and it v as as only at the insistent demand of o Von Elm that he ho was finally lowered to his finish the p parade rade arm In arm with his wife Ife Utahn I In Form In Final r National Title HOnT HILLS III LS N J T S capt t IS IS- IS ISBy SHORT a Dy By The The Associated The The monarch of at golf golt was was top top- toppled top toppled pi pled cd from tram his 1115 amateur throne to- to today today to today day by flaxen haired George Geore Von Elm of Lo Los Angeles In one ot of o the tho most stunning upsets of ot links his his- tar tony lobby Bobby Jones the beaten beaten the words flashed out over o rolling roiling Ea late this afternoon to an almost sport world Defeat for or tho the master shot ma maker er froni Atlanta at the the hands of ot a player Pl ho he had twice overwhelmed In pr- pr matches seemed too IncredIble incredible Incredible ible to receive But Von Elm Ilm had come to the tile slopes of ot the picturesque esque New Jersey course to prove that the age of ot golfing miracles has not yet passed and In two ot of the most dazzling rounds ever played he ho finally conquered the tho young Georgian on the green a 2 and 1 I Playing at a dizzy pace whIch hat had haI the complication of ot 1 down at the end run Von Yon Elm completed his conquest conquet wIth wi wl h a card which showed one stroke under cn een fours tours This wa was wac enough chough In itself to overthrow a great cham champion pion plon But the story of or Bobbys Bobby's d de detent tent feat began long before they step step- r ped to the first tee teo before a a throng of ot ten thousand this morn morn- mornIng Inc Ing It began on Wednesday with witha a terrible battle between Jw wo Joneses Bobby Bobby and Dick Th fI first of oC th three ree nerve Wracking matches through which the chain chain- pion plon was compelled to pass In his hia defense defenso of ot the crown Then came II a bitter duel with Chick Evans won by hy the title holder at it qt 3 and 2 and finally his and three match with Ouimet Bobby Dobby hung huns on gamely today to tomake tomake make malee an uphill tight fight In tn tho face tace ot of flawless golf golt But he did It al- al almost al almost most on sheer nerve He was great In yet yel the fine tine edge had been taken from his approaching game rame during the th days das In which Von ton Elm was easily to pr pre victories over Watts Gunn Bobbys Bobby's Atlanta chum and Georgo Dawson of ot Chicago The Tho man from beyond the tho Rock nock les ies es pla playing with a borrowed s set sat t ot of clubs because he failed tailed to make his own respond In the quail qualifying tying rounds early arly this week an Ui unerring putter pUller today But flut he was vas even moro morn marvelous Ith Ith his approaches approaches front from the tho tee cc on almost every hole ho lal laidus laid 1 1 his his us second shots so well up uti- uti un del der under utiler ler that flag that Jones could win ani six holes against him 00 0 |
