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Golfer Robert Tyre Jones...
When Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of Atlanta marched off the eleventh green at Merion Cricket Club with the world's four major golf titles safely in hand (TiME, Oct. 6) it was generally understood that he would continue competitive golf. He stated that he would not retire. Last week he announced: He is definitely out of tournament golf; will continue his career as an Atlanta barrister; will presently make a series of one-reel cinemas for Warner Bros., "purely educational in character." Excerpts...
John Hay ("Jock") Whitney;Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones...
...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 in one year-or to be on hand if some freak of luck...
...Names make news." Last week the following names 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...