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...Robert Tyre Jones Jr. likes being called "Robot, the Mechanical Man of Golf," better than a lot of other names to which sportswriters, their superlatives utterly exhausted, have had resort. Before and since his appearance in the golfing firmament in 1916 (one year after Percy), he has had no peer but Percy, and making oneself a mechanically perfect golfer-when one is equipped with temper, indolence, misgivings and other frailties to which robots are heir-is as satisfactory, when accomplished, as it is difficult...
Last week Robert Tyre Jones Jr., possessor thus far this year of three of golf's four highest titles-British Open, British Amateur, U. S. Open-a record never before held by any man-took his golfing machine out on the No. 2 course at his home East Lake Country Club near Atlanta, Ga., to see how it was running. It scored 70, one under par. Putts were all that seemed to need oiling and tightening up as Jones packed his equipment and headed for the Merion Cricket club near Philadelphia, where he would try the coming week...
...Simplest news facts: Since 1928, 3,498 names have been added, 2,559 dropped for death and other reasons, leaving a total of 29,704 compared to 28,805 in the 15th edition. Notable are inclusions and exclusions of the 16th edition. Included, for example, are Jackie Coogan, Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., many a newly famed industrialist. Not included are Greta Garbo, James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, Tobacconist George Washington Hill. The preface explains that in 1900 Who's Who listed one in about 8,000 of the general populace. Now it lists one in about 4,000. Statistics would...
...Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., who once refused the offer of a $50,000 house from his fellow citizens of Atlanta, it was suggested that Mrs. Helen Newington Wills Moody might jeopardize her amateur status by accepting $20,000 bequeathed to her in the will of California's late Senator James Duval Phelan. Said he: "I wish someone would leave me the same amount. ... I think it is absolutely asinine for anyone even to question Helen's procedure...
...eliminate guesswork and tradition from golf instruction," the Professional Golfers' Association hired a movie camera geared to take 3,200 pictures per second, sent it to Atlanta last week to photograph Robert Tyre ("Robot") Jones Jr., world's best golfer, making his shots. George Sargent, onetime P. G. A. president, superintended the photographing. He said that pictures would also be taken of England's Joyce Wethered, foremost female stylist, and 'of graceful old Harry Vardon. The pictures will be distributed to P. G. A. members to teach them how to teach...