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...Other noteworthy 1931 births: to onetime President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico (son, premature); Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr. (daughter); William Henry Vanderbilt (twins, forecast by X-ray); Emperor Hirohito of Japan (daughter); Sir Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir (son, winning him a large wager...
Cinema contracts prevented Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr. from going to England to defend his British Amateur championship last week. But there was a curiously neat compensation. Ready on the first tee of the Westward Ho! course at starting time was another U. S. celebrity even more famed & popular than Golfer Jones. A brownish, stocky little man, he attracted an unprecedented swarm of autograph hunters. A dozen ladies were so anxious to have their children see him play that they pushed perambulators after him over five miles of gently undulating Devonshire. British golf critics agreed that his swing was good...
...Golfers George Von Elm and Leo Diegel: a match against Mortie Dutra and Robert Tyre Jones Jr.; at Agua Caliente, Mexico. Golfer Jones is now performing in Warner Bros, golf talkies. Current rumor about what Jones will do next summer: tour the U. S. in exhibition matches, sponsored by Warner Bros., starting at the Winchester Country Club near Boston with Francis Ouimet as partner...
Appointed. Robert Tyre Jones Jr., retired golf champion of the world; to be a captain in the organized reserve of the U. S. Army for "special and miscellaneous duty"; by President Hoover...
...Cincinnati. Said he: "When I was an amateur ... it was my idea that the players were under no obligation to the public. . . . But now I go out on the courts realizing that I owe the public a hard fight, good tennis, and a show." Jones. In Atlanta Robert Tyre Jones Jr. made his first public appearance since his retirement from amateur golf. It was a charity exhibition-match on his home course; Jones was playing with burly John Golden against Gene Sarazen and Horton Smith. He seemed to loaf, was tail-ender of the foursome, which ended...