LOST HIS TEMPER
One of the most extraordinary golf matches in which Ellen Byers, of Pittsburgh, a former American amateur golf champion and all-round sp'ortslnan, who died recently, was ever engaged, was against Bobby Jones in the 1916 championship at Philadelphia. Bobby was then a boy of 14, and reputations meant nothing to him. The ex-champion and. the youth met in the first round, and as Jones was walking to the first tee someone whispered in his ear, "Remember, the bigger they are the harder they fall." This was the favourite advice of Bob Fitzsimmons, the famous puglilist. Byers and Jones played terribly, and, curiously enough, each expressed his outraged feelings in the same way — when a shot was bungled the offending club was hurled into space. Byers threw one club into an adjoining wood, and sternly forbade his caddie to retrieve it. Bobby always maintains that he won this match only because Byers ran out of clubs first.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 304, 18 August 1932, Page 2
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