WILL JONES TURN PRO.?

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 132, 25 August 1927, Page 9

WILL JONES TURN PRO.?

TWO PROMISES BROKEN “There is little space left to outline the farcical situation into which Bobby Jones has flimflammed himself by his debacle in the National Open at Oakmont,” states an American critic. “He declared he couldn’t write for the Press, that he shouldn’t defend his British Open title, and that he wouldn’t turn professional. The first two promises he has broken, so why not the last? “Jones long before he left for Pittsburgh realised defeat stared him in the face, so Oscar Keeler, his advance agent, packed his trunks for Europe and hopped abroad, from New York. 48 hours after Jones’s star had fallen. The day Keeler sailed, the ‘wise Willies’ sniffed a rodent. “Bobby likes golf far better than the law and real estate, and our guess ds he will fall back upon it, when, dispoiled of titles, his signature ceases to have value to the syndicates. It was mainly the ‘literary’ grind that unhorsed him at Oakmont. • Recently we called attention to the fact that few amateur golfers in the

long run had profited much by ‘taking their pen in hand.’ In that connection we investigated a story going the rounds regarding the collaboration of an erstwhile star. It turns out true that not only did he fail to receive a share of the divide, but had his sideboard depleted of a small cargo of old stock, quoted at fancy prices these days that was deemed imperative in lubricating the wheels of thought as the transcribing end of the combination received the fibrous material from which the strands were spun. “But most astounding of all is Jonesy carting over Beadheadt Stewart Maiden as a joint coach and doctor, a professional whom nobody can recall as ever having won an Open prize of any account. Possibly the now very much rumped Georgian can paralyse the Britons bv past prestige—and his retinue. Most ” folk, though, forecast another bump for Bobby that will leave him SP r s Ch i e matter of fact we note that Jones did not pet the bump—but won the British Open with a record score.