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Show if V , XM :rri - Av 1 i - 41 ' A ' ' ' A ' ' n v " , v " : Vm,, '- - WXtb J RANKS WITH BEST AMERICAN GOLF PLAYERS. "Little Bobby" Jones, the most famous fa-mous boy in the United States owing to his almost reaching the semifinal round for the national golf championship, devotes de-votes himself with as much earnestness earnest-ness and success to his studies in the Tech high school here as he does to winning golf matches, says an, Atlanta dispatch to Philadelphia Public Ledger. Led-ger. Last year, in the first grade in the Tech high school, he took second year Latin in addition to his regular first year studies, and did it of his own Volition. The Tech instructors who have taught "Little Bob" say there is no better student in the school. "Little Bob's" name is Robert Tyre 'Tones, Jr., and he is named for his grandfather, Robert Tyre Jones, Sr., a pVoir.inent citizen of Canton, Ga. His father, Robert P. Jones, is an Atlanta jlswyer. "Little Bob" was born on March 17, 1002, in the old L. P. Grant homestead, jnear Grant park. At that time his parents pa-rents were living at the Grant home-jstead home-jstead with friends, Mr. and Mrs. Bryan jll. Grant. For the last nine years the ,Joneses have lived at East Lake, and Avhen he was six years old "Little Bob" jhegan to knock a golf ball up and down (the streets of that flourishing munici- I fO.lllH- lelltnll 'oc rr..... , 1 . ...ii-ii iiu-o feivnu uy iuuuuu Lite 'East Lake club. At the age of nine "Little Bob" made his debut on tne I'-asi ijukk gou course with a set of clubs, a bag and some "regular" balls. Steward llaiden, instructor in-structor at East Lake, saw liis promise right from the start and began to train him. "Little Bob" gives Maiden the full credit for his skill at the game. It was in the southern championship tournament played over the East Lake course in 1915 that "Little Bob" first came into prominence. Although he did not win in that tournament he showed his class in every round. Later in the summer of 1915 he won the invitation tournament of the Roebuck Roe-buck club of Birmingham. Still later he won the invitation tournament of the Druid Hills club and the invitation tournament of the East Lake club. He established the course record for East Lake with a 77. Since that time he has lowered the East Lake record to 74. In 1916 "Little Bob" came fully into his own. He won the invitation tournament tourna-ment of the Birmingham Golf and Country club, won the invitation tournament of East Lake, won the invitation invi-tation tournament of the Cherokee Golf and Country club of Knoxville, and won the Georgia championship at Brooks Haven a few weeks ago. In the last-named tournament he defeated Perry Adair, Atlanta's other juvenile golf wonder, in one of the most magnificent mag-nificent battles ever seen by Atlanta's oldest golf veterans. |