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...principal and almost only opponent was the Merion course. "A man can get along all right [at Merion] if the white faces don't get him," said Chick Evans, onetime titleholder. He meant the big bunkers, filled with chalk-white sand that makes them stand out pale and threatening beside the smooth greens, across the well-watered fairways. Not a particularly long course, with only two holes where a tournament player needs wood for his second shot, Merion is notable for its formidable par fours, its exacting threes, and for an old quarry that sprawls like an ungainly footprint...
...over to the next hole. I want to see him play some strokes. He only takes two strokes on this hole," said a young woman standing in the big gallery around the short third (par 3) waiting for Jones to come up. The National Amateur Championship at Merion, near Philadelphia, was still in its early rounds, but the great galleries around Robert Tyre Jones Jr. every minute shared that uniform wish-to see him hit the ball. To see him win the fourth and final event of his tremendous campaign to take all four major championships of the world...
...ladies were watching Bobby Jones in one of his preliminary matches at the Amateur tournament last week. They didn't know very much about golf, the story goes, but they did know about Bobby. The latter was about to play one of the short holes on the Merion course, and the ladies were pondering the advisability of waiting or going on to a later hole where they could get better positions. The deciding argument came when one of them said, "Oh, come on; I want to see him play and he only takes two strokes on this hole...
...made the following news: Margaret Rose was chosen as the name for the month-old daughter of the Duke & Duchess of York (TIME, Sept. i). She will be christened at Buckingham Palace in October. Robert Tyre Jones Jr., practicing near Philadelphia for the U. S. Amateur golf championship at Merion Cricket Club (TIME, Sept. 22), denied he had suffered an attack of appendicitis. Said he: "I just had a stomach ache." He moved the scene of his practicing from the Merion club to parts unknown, to escape mobs of admiring gawkers. Later he returned to Merion, to take low score...
Phillips Finlay '31, hard-hitting captain of the University golf team, was yesterday defeated in the opening round of the National Amateur Golf Championship at Merion, 2 and 1, by Jess Sweetser. Finlay led during the early holes of the match, but the accuraie shooting of the winner was the decisive factor. On the sixteenth and seventeenth, Sweetser scored two birdies to win the match...