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Show JONAH YEAR FOK GOLF CHAMPIONS Few of Leaders Able to Retain Re-tain Their Titles. The present golfing season gives symptoms of being remembered as the Jonah year. Champions are being kicked all over the lot None of the contestants In any of the championships champion-ships played thus far has given a hang about the tltleholder. They start right out, and lo, before the chara-plon.shlp chara-plon.shlp has gone any great dlstrtnce the king Is out It started down In Florida and out In California and swept northward and eastward. Champion after champion cham-pion was beaten and a new king crowned. It seems as If most of this country's golfers have been guilty of lese majeste and, what's more, seem proud of It England saw the dethroning of Jlro Barnes wid of Abe Mitchell and the coronation of Walter Hngen and Bobby Jones. Willie Macfarlane. also lost his title, wtilch Bobby Jones usurped, stealing It right from under the nose of one of Willie's neighbors, Joe Turnesa. Macdonald Smith came back from Plnehurst with the north and south title under hi arm. ' He didn't have It when he started south from Lakevllle. Pon't overlook Jess Sweelser, who sailed from the United States with one title and came back with another. Pucky Yates, who won the north end south amateur championship, came north without It. Similar things happened In Texas, California, New Mexico, and 45 other states. The count from the territories Is not yet In, but a landslide In favor of the revolutionists can be expected. Those who have titles still In their possession had better employ bodyguards. body-guards. With the metropolitan open and amateur titles In new hands, as happened In the Long Island and dozens doz-ens of other amateur championships, a continuation of this sort of stuff ma be expected. |