Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-07-21 | Page 4 | Bobby Jones is Popular

BOBBY JONES IS POPULAR By Dy winnIng the American open golf colt championship Bobby Dobby Jones not only set the tho enviable record of holding three major golf golt titles simultaneously but he h settled I once and nd for tor all the periodically recurrIng argument a as to whether he h any aDY peers peer game I The Th young has proved himself the greatest golfer that I ever VT lived Hagen n admittedly the greatest match player and a man manof manot ot of remarkable gameness must bow to the th superior talents pay talents the burning genius ot o the th t 4 year old boy from rom GeorgIa No more mor popular victory at a Scioto could have been Imagined than Jones A gallery callery ot of o cheered wildly as he be h holed hold out hIs fInal putt And over In Enc Eng Eng- England land when Bobby Dobby obby w won n the th Brit l Ith h open the th English sport en en- en enthusiasts en to a man were hoping that In the th event a Briton could not win Dobby Bobby Jones would The Th young yount man seems s ems to have Quite a hold on the th affections not only ot of o his own ol countrymen but butot butof butot ot of sport lovers the th world orld over It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is safe ufe sat to say that be Is the th most popular fIgure In the th sport world today It Is fairly fairly safe tat to go EO a astep astep step farther and say that he be h Is the most mOlt popular man In la the world today In sport port or out Since Sine the th days day ot of John L Sul Sui Sullivan livan America has had no Idol to compare with Jones Babe Ruth Was WaI wa and still UIl Is la a gigantic figure but bt Babe Dabe Bab at his hla best beat could never I r inspire the affection and wen well wishes that the niblick wield er e r from tram Atlanta can call Her to 10 Bobby obby and may he be win many more chain championships plops lIps