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...Golf Championship?an obscure runner-up is easily forgotten. But last week when Ben E. Stein played one-under-par golf to defeat Eddie Held in the finals of the Western Amateur at Seattle, his friends in the Northwest began to boom him as a potential rival of Robert Tyre Jones Jr. and George von Elm in future U. S. Amateur Championships...
...youngsters that flashed into prominence from time to time winked out briefly." Not until 1926, when he won the British Open with a 291 that tied J. H. Taylor's record of 1909, did another young man come along who really played them "Sure and Far." Last year Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of Atlanta, with his 68 at Sunningdale (while qualifying) and his undeviating deadliness to win at St. Ann's, looked very much indeed like another Tom Morris Jr. Aged 25, he appeared to carry on where Tom Morris Jr. left...
Last week, Watts Gunn of Georgia Tech, playmate of Robert Tyre Jones Jr., went four times around the Garden City (L. I.) Golf Club course in a total of 302 strokes. Had he been alive to do this in 1902, he would have won the U. S. Open Championship by five strokes.* But, at 22, his reward was the qualifying medal of the national intercollegiate golf tournament...
...thinking that they had seen the new U. S. open golf champion. Gene Sarazen had put away his clubs, with a 302. "Wild Bill" Mehlhorn of the mighty wrists had gone wild after a few under-par holes. Walter C. Hagen finished with an ignoble round of 81. Robert Tyre Jones, amateur, 1926 open champion (TIME, July 19), had been consistent but not brilliant. Harrison ("Jimmie") Johnston, the amateur who worried the professionals for half the battle, went to seed after an eagle 3 and a sparrow...
...Robert Tyre Jones Jr., famed golfer: "As a law school freshman at Emory University, I have pored long over my law books. Last week, when the mid-term examination marks were posted, my name led all the rest. My marks were: A in torts (the only A in the class); A in contracts (the first A made in two years); B in public utilities and B in pleading (only two marks were better) ; C in property (highest mark in the class). It was pointed out that few of my classmates had had my opportunities. Before attending Emory Law School...