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Nowadays Jones, because of an injured spine, goes around the course in a cart. Above he is shown watching win the 1955 Masters.

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Bob Jones, golf's champion of champions, estimates the pressures of the pro tournament circuit - including this week's Masters. He also gives his fran k opinion of today' s top pros and amateurs.

By Harry Pax ton and Fred Hu sell

R ecently we had an opportunity that report­ ers seldom get-a chance to sit down in re. laxed privacy for a long, candid discussion of golf and golfers with the master of them all . Although he still makes news ~ a .host at the M asters Tournament, and as a friend of golf enthusiast Dwight D. Eisen. hower, Jones seldom talks at any great length for publication. He never was one to COurt personal pt~blicilY, e\'e~ during the years"'when he was gettmg tons of It by running up his un. matched tolal of thirteen national.(ournam . . d' enl VICtorIeS, an Since) 9 1-8 spinal trouble has f(-'. I dlleed both his mobility and his availability. . Robert Tyro Jones, Jr., is now fifty-six and 1925: Bob with the greal \Valtef Hag<'n. whose • IllS ~olf plaYing IS over, but in a broader sense he IS lInehaIH:cci. Jones always rated a f "conduct on the . II says Jones. "was impeccable ., . I' ( S one 0 t h e mo.;;t Intr ",{ent and gentlemanly of.;;port'i

Ric;hl: Bob in 1m() was a 1 t-year-old boy wonder who tffiunct"d ex·Amal('ur champ E. ~l. Byers. celebrities, and he remains exactly thal. slam" offour British and American champion­ gusta National Golf Club and its M asters Throughout Qur conversation we found him ships in the 1930 Amateur Tournament; and President Eisenhower, the temperate and good-humored in his answers­ Tournament at the M erion Cricket Club out­ laller as depicted by :\orman Rockwell on a but always frank and explicit. He evaded no side . Post cover in October, 1956. Photographs of issues and ducked no questions about the top Bob Jones-no one who knows him ever other friends hung on the office walls, along golfers of today. A for how to play the game, calls him Bobby-greeted us both with South­ with some scenes from Bob's tournament days he did not claim to have arrived at any magic ern graciousness, speaking in his easy Georgia and assorted other sports items. formula, but he did have some very pointed drawl. He was seated at his desk in the offices of One of the first questions everybody asks us words of basic advice for the golfers of the Jones, \Villiams, Dorsey and Kane, the in connection with our trip to see Bob Jones country. law firm founded by his father. Here Bob is, " H ow is his health?" The answer is, "About We got together with Jones in his home comes daily to attend to his varied business the same." His trouble was caused by an town of Atlanta. (( We" are Fred Russell, affairs. It was quickly agreed that we would injured vertebra at thc top of the spine, thc sports editor of the Nashville Banner, and simply close the door to Bob's walnut-paneled effecl of which was a deterioration of nerve H arry Paxton, sports editor of the Post. Rus­ office and tUfn on the tape recorder we had supply to his limbs. This resulted in an in­ sell is a long-time Post contributor, and a brought along to transcribe our conversation. creasing atrophy, and pain in his arms and long-time friend of Bob's. Paxton's only previ­ On Bob's desk were framed reproductions legs. Two operations some years back failed ous direct knowledge of Jones was the boyhood of paintings of two of his special friends-ClifT to correct the trouble. However, Bob Jonescon­ thrill of watching him complete his "grand Roberts, with whom Jones founded the Au- tinues to live a full (Continued on Page 68)

•• The Master of Them All

No man has ever dominated the golf world as Bob Jones did-not even , who won eight of the twelve major cham­ pionships he competed in during his peak years of 1948 to 1953. In the Bobby Jones era, which began in 1923, big-time golf for eight years was reduced to a matter of Jones vs. the field. The brilliant young amateur entered a IOta I of twenty-one Amer­ ican and British national tournaments and won thirteen. In four others he was runner­ up. In 1930 Jones made a clean sweep of all four big ones-his famous """­ and retired at lwenty-eight, an age when a tournament golfer usually is just approach­ ing his prime. His amazing record: u.s. u.s. BRITISH BRITISH AMATEUR OPEN AMATEUR OPEN 1923 also-ran wo 1924 WON second 1925 WON second 1926 second WON also-ran WON 1927 WON also-ran WON 1928 WON second 1929 also-ran WON 1930 WON WON WON WON -The Editors.

1930, t. Andrews, &otland: Policemen had to escort Jones through a mob of enthusiastic OlS after he won the British Amateur title. This was the first of his four championship wins that season (sec Ixlow) .

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Completing the "grand slam": Four months later, Jones easily won the U. S. Amateur title at the ;\ferion course near Philadelphia. He thus became the first and only golfer to take all the major amateur titles in one year. 68 T H E SATURD A Y EVENING POST A Visit \Vith Bobby Jones "your copy (Continued from Page 23) • and rounded life. HestaysofI his feet most or hun him to play in tournaments week of the time. but can walk with the aid of after week? in just two sturdy hickory canes which bear the "That's hard to answer," hedec1ared, same stamp-ROBERT T. JONES, JR.-that "because it would have involved a com­ he used to put on his golf clubs. plete transformation in my habits of liv­ 4 seconds" Bob is matter-of-fact about his disabil­ ing and thinking. You see, I never re­ ity. "Here's a right interesting thing," he garded golf as the paramount interest remarked at one point, gesturing toward in my life. If-with my mind on other A the canes. "There's a grand old girl up things, at least-I had had to play in five in Barbourville, Kentucky- Miss Nola or six tournaments in a row, I feel 1 Minton, used to have a lot of wonderful would have been so damn well fed up show horses. She made hickory golf-club with it that 1 wouldn't have been able to shafts in the old days. Well, a few years hit the side of a barn. On the other hand, ago she saw me with two bamboo canes if I'd changed my whole way of living and, not long after. she shipped me these and said, 'Well, I'm going to playa golf hickory canes, and she wrote me a little tournament every week for the whole note, 'You've been leaning on hickory year for the rest of my life,' maybe I could all your life. It's too late to changenow.'" have conditioned myself for it:' Speaking of hickory, we wanted to Jones was warming now into a subject know whether Bob considers the change on which he is very expressive-the men­ from hickory to steel shafts the most im­ tal tensions involved in big-time golf. portant advance in golf equipment today. "These fellows who play the circuit "Yes, I suppose that's the main differ­ now," he said, "they all have to take a ence," Jones said. "But that in itself is week or two off every now and then. responsible for a lot of other differences. They all get jaded with it, as you do with I mean, your balancing can be so much anything, That's really the reason I quit more accurate when you can control the playing in competition. I'd made up my qualities of the shaft-the capacities of mind even before I got around to 1930 it and the distribution of weight. The that if I ever found a convenient stopping steel shaft is lighter, so you can put more place, I was going to do it. weight in the head. And the steel shaft "You take and some of eliminates the torsion factor"-meaning the others of my era. I think they lost twisting. their real enthusiasm for tournaments «But I think the main difference in the long before they were physically on the play of steel and hickory is that the boys nowadays can hit more nearly all out­ more nearly full power-without running the risk of something going wrong. The boys seem to be hitting more with their • • • COInpare copy Inethods; I ncome taxes oflen transform hands tlian we used to do. I think that's • you'll use this one! the reason they're hitting the ball farther. ncst eggs IOLO goose eggs. I know that the golf ball itself hasn't gO! SHANNO N FIFE that much additional driving power, but You'll use this copy maker because here is the world's cleanest, people my own age, like Dick Garlington simplest wa,y to copy. Only "Thermo·Fax" Copying Machines give and Charley Black and ­ they're driving the ball a good deal far­ downgrade. I know I did. you an exclusive dry process copying method that is completely All· ther today than they did when they were was about the only one.of our vintage Electric. No chemicals. No liquids. You make copies in 4 fast seconds, younger." who kept up his enthusiasm for so long. Then he doesn't think the golf ball Of course, Ben Hogan and for as little as 5¢ each. Try it in your own office on letters, orders, itself is much of a factor? have gone on a long time in this era." reports, or any forms you now must retype. You'll see how the truly Jones said, "It could be some. I sup­ We asked him to elaborate on the rea­ modern simplicity of dry process copying makes other methods old­ pose the modern ball has a greater per­ sons a man's tournament enthusiasm centage of flight to roll. The ball we used wears down. fashioned. And you'll see a brand·new way to save time and money. to play in the late 'Teens was a soft, Jones answered, " In tournament golf, Call your dealer for your demonstration now. Or send coupon for full heavy sort of small ball. On a dry, hard and particularly in an Open champion­ details and your free copy of our helpful business communications book. fairway you could get tremendous dis­ ship, you take an awful lot of mental tance with it because it had a lot of run. punishment. Golf is played at such a "There are a lot of other new factors. slow pace that you don't have an oppor­ MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY We know more about golf-course main­ tunity to work off steam in physical ac­ where RESEARCH is the key to tomorrow tenance now than we did before. We've tivity. Playing around that golf course in got better grasses for putting greens and four hours, you get so weighted down by fairways. But there's no getting away the strain and the responsibility and the from the fact that teehnique has im­ difficulty of concentrating that you just proved at the same time, People jump wish to goodness you could hit a careless higher today and run faster, and all that shot-just hit the ball without thinkjng. ® sort of thing, and it's perfectly natural." And if you ever yield to that temptation Jones went on, "Here's another angle you'll always pay for it. o· ax that's always interested me. In the days "So unless you're terribly keen to win, COPYING';::PRODUCTS when Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, you just won't make yourself take that , and I kind of punishment. I think Ben Hogan were all playing, it was sort of accepted may be experiencing a little of that now, thaI everybody had to have one bad although he certainly wants to become the round out of the four in the U. S. Open first man to win five Open champion­ championship. I think the guy who broke ships. But it seems to me that he's getting • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • that pattern was . The a little bit to the point where it's harder • • • Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company • first time Ralph won the Open"--in 1937 for him to make himself maintain that • • • Dept. Q(.458, 5t. Paul 6 , Minnesota • with a score of 281--"he played four unbroken concentration." • • good rounds. And that set a new pattern • Send my free copy of you. new book, Better Business Communications, and full • Does a top competitor like Jones some­ • • in everybody's mind for scoring in the • details on the THERMO-FAX "Secretary" Copying Machine. • times concentrate so much that he be­ • • Open. I lhink that makes a lot of differ· comes oblivious of his surroundings? :• Name ______• • ence." ''I've hit a number of shots like that" • , • • Jones responded. "I think probably every • Company ______• • • Another change is that the playing pros crucial shot that I've played in tourna­ • • • • today compete practically the whole year ments was more or less that way. J was : Address ______• • around. Bob Jones seldom entered more just sort of unconscious. 1 was made that • • than five or six events a year and some­ way by the strain. Strain causes some • C;ly' ______Zooo __51010 ______• • • times played in only two-the United people to concentrate a little better. • • • The teaml "Thermo-Fa,;" and "Secutary" are tr'aIdemarkl or Minn~t. M in in" & Mfa:. Co. • States Open and the United States Ama­ "It was always easier for me to play • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • teur. Does he think it would have helped when I was (Con/inued 011 Page 70) • T HE SATURDAY EVEN I NG POST

(COl/til/lied from Page 68) behind. My there definitely were, The next question golf shot. They look to me like they try to approach could be positive and aggressive, was, "Do you think the best golfers of take into consideration more damn things and then you can play well . The one Ihing your day were as good as the best golfers than they have to. I think they're setting a I could not cope with on a golf cours~ was of the present day?" very bad example for youngsters. the fear of looking ridiculous-not only "~I think so," said Bob. "Maybe some "~ I used to walk around a little bit on to other people but to myself-by throwing of the golfers today have a little more the green after ( got the ball on there, but away a big lead. I'd begin 10 play defen­ repetitive ability. Maybe they don't make all I was trying to do wasJO tranquilize sively. But when you finally have thrown quite so many bad shots. That could my breathing. Walking a good distance the lead away, and you get around to the come from playing a lot more competi­ up to the green and making your way last hole and you've gOl to put the ball on tive golf. through a crowd of people requires a the green or in the cup, then the pressure "But I think the main difference in any little exertion, and so I'd stall around a gets so great that you just lose yourself in era between the fellow who wins big little bit just to get my breathing tran­ making the shot. tournaments and the fellow who doesn't quilized, and get my mind back on the "A lot of tournaments I threw away has more to do with his psychological shot. But no more than that. Like old Beautiful South Shore Inn, on lake Wawasee, Syracuse, and then managed to get them back. I construction than it does with his physical used to say, 'Miss 'cm quick.' Indiana , operated by Jones Holel System won my first Open in 1923 by hilling a ability. I'll quote Ben Hogan on that. If I ever took a second waggle, 1 might as 190-yard shot over a pond to the Hogan said that a man who's capable of w~1I put the club back in the bag. 1 just green on the last hole of a play-off with being a champion in one era could be a couldn·1 hit the ball. Tropical Rubber-Base . I have absolutely no champion in another. ·· 1 think people get the jitters-the memory of hitting that ball:' " All you can beat are the people that , some of them call it-when they ENTKOTE "What did you do for relaxation in are around at the same time you are. This can't stop waggling before they playa those days?" we inquired. reminds me in a backhanded way of what shol. Cary Middlecoff got into Ihat kind "In between tournaments there was no Sergeant York"-the hero­ of thing not long ago." problem," Bob said .. , I loved to play golf. "was supposed to have said when he got I played golf all the time. It wasn't the back home, and someone asked him how We asked Jones to single out some of " aved ur pressure of being tired of golf, but being he'd made out in the war. He said, 'Well, the greatest present-day players. Bob said tired of taking that damn punishment in I killed more of them than they did of there were quite a number of them. "Ob­ the tournaments." me.'" viously Hogan, Snead, Demaret, Middle­ Building" .. How did you relax during a tourna- Jones went on, "You can't beat the coff-I don't think that I can give all the says R. A, Neilsen, manager ment T' • ones that came before you, or the ones names right off." HI just stayed away from everything. that come after. For example, how could Would he include any of the younger You don't want to be around the lobby you compare Vardon with me, or Hogan, golfers in that category yet, such as Costly annual repair of stucco and have a 101 of people pulling on you or Tom Morris? You just can't do it." Burke, Littler and numerous others ? surface eliminated by moisture­ and wanting to talk about golf, golf, golf, , with whom Jones-then Bob Jones deClared, "I tell you frankly, proof Cementkote. To date: Three so you get away from it. I'd go right up to eighteen-had the experience of being a lot of the younger crowd over the past my room and get in a tub with a drink, a paired in the 1920 U. S. Open, was a six­ ten or a dozen years have been a little dis­ years with NO maintenance! highball. I"d drink that and have one or time British Open winner prior to the appointing to me. We've found that there two morc, then eat supper in my room First World War; Tom Morris was a were a lot of them who could play fine "Every year for many years we had and go 10 bed:' nineteenth-century Scottish great. golf, but when you get to something like to replace large areas of StuCCO We asked whether he had any trouble Getting down to cases on the modern , they're just not which was popped off by moisture eating or sleeping. golfers, we invited Bob to give his opinion there. Burke finally came Ihrough in 1956 penetration and resulting frost", " 1 had trouble eating," Bob said. " 1 on the irritatingly slow play of some of and won the Masters and the P.O.A. Dick wrote Mr. Neilsen in August, was so nervous I didn't want to eat any­ the current tournament performers. Does Mayer won the Open last year, and that 1957. "Then your Mr. Falardeau thing. I'd always eat a very light break­ he think it's just a habit they're in, or are George May tournament"-the lucrative recommended that Tropical fast, and I couldn't bear the thought of they trying deliberately to annoy the Tam 0' Shanter "world" championship. Rubber-Base Cementkote would food at lunch- I'd eat a piece of toast and other feHow? .. -he won a good bit last waterproof this surface and, by drink some tea with sugar in it. But I'd " I don't think they try consciously to year. He won the Masters. But I have to keeping moisture out, frost damage always eat a good meal at night," do that," Jones answer'id. "I do think see these young fellows win some of the would be eliminated. \'(Ie applied Jones added, after further reflection, there's a certain amount of selfishness in­ Cementkote in 1955. After going big ones, and with some consistency, be­ " H ere's the whole thing. I'd get so keyed volved. But mostly ( think that a lot of fore I get too impressed." through twO winters and now our younger pros and amatcurs are over­ approaching a third, we really up about a tournament, and while I was It was mentioned to Jones that a few believe Cemenrkote has saved on that golf course, that was the most im­ impressed with the amount of time and years back a good many people thought study they have to give to the making of a our building." portant thing in the world. And then two Littler was (COl/til/lied 011 Page 72) or three days after I'd gotten home, whether I'd won it or lost it, I'd say to Check how Cementkote can myself, 'Why do you get so damn excited save YOU money! about a golf tournament l' Tropical Rubber-Base Cementkote "It was like the time Sam Snead was waterproofs and decorates con­ talking to me in Augusta two or three crete, stucco, block, brick and years ago-I'm proud of this, that's the - Stone surfaces. Its tough rubber reason I like to repeat it. Sam said to me coat seals pores, StOPS penetration one night a t a Masters Club dinner, ' Bob, • of wind-driven rain and snow, tell me, which one of the championships - [lr Applies without primer on new, that you won did you want to win the C:o-=n--i uncured construction, with no most?' I said, 'Sam, it was always the one alkali streaks or I was playing in at the time. And if I r stains. Stops hadn't felt that way, I never would have cracking, spall­ won any,''' ing. internal ruSt and damage. Although Jones did not return to na­ tional-championship competition after I , . I FREE! CEMENTKOTE retiring as an amateur in 1930, he did BULLETIN, COLOR SAM­ play in the for a PLES, Your leHerhead re­ number of years after helping to get it quest b ri ngs complete started in 1934. He never came close to information on Cement­ winning. Was this because he couldn't kate, available in white and ten get himself "up" the way he used to dur­ popular colors, Write today! ing his active career? ·'1 was keyed up;· Bob declared, '·but I just didn't react the same way. I had TROPICAL PAINT CO. abandoned the whole damn business for 1132-1298 W. 70th, Cleveland 2, Ohio four years. and I couldn't condition my­ self mentally. If I was going to do it, I had Heavy-Duty Maintenance Points Since 1883 to get right back in things, which I had no intention of doing. When your confi­ dence is high, your reaction to strain is quite different than when you haven't played a lot of competilive golf, and you're not certain how you're going to react." " \ V.ell, how:s the satellite situation tonight? SUBSIDIARY OF We raised the question of whether PARKER RUST Stdl wearlOg the green chiffon negligee?" PROOF COMPANY there were more good tournament golfers now than in Bob's era, and Jones said • TilE SATURDAY EVENING POST

seven, and again in 'Thirty, I felt that I SKILMANSHIP . SKIL~ (Colllinlled from Page 70) going to be percentage of winter tournaments, for the onc of the best golfers ever to come reasons I've already talked about. In the knew it." along. U. S. Open you only have 10 beat about What are some of the special problems "Well, there have been a number of six or eight people. The rest of them beat at St. Andrews? -I them like that:' Bob observed. "They·d themselves. But in the Colonial Open, Jones explained, "The difficult condi­ 1) be hot as a firecracker during the winter say. where there's less pressure, you've tions are when the wind is blowing and • tournaments, and then get up to the Open got to beat them all." the ground is firm and hard. It's easier if and it'd be the same old thing." How about his own baby, the Masters, they've had a lot of rain-you see, they II) Jones expressed approval of the Pro­ which is being played April third to sixth have no way of watering the gIeens over ;>; - fessional Golfers Association's decision this year? Is it harder to win than the or­ there-and if the course is soft. But you r to switch its annual P.G.A. champion­ dinary winter tournament? don't often find it that way. When the ;:: ship tournament from a match-play to a ., 0 doubt about it," Bob Jones said. greens are fast and they don't hold, » medal-play basis this year. He always did "There's that little pressure. The pros at­ you've got to maneuver around hazards z feel that medal play, in which the man tach more importance to it. It's a prestige rather than playing over them. When you II) with the lowest score wins, was a fairer tournament. I've been very pleased with make a pitch shot, you've got to rna· I - test than , in which the en­ the stature the Masters has gained. But I neuver around so you're pitching into the 1) trants compete against each other in a could never claim that it was as important wind. Then you can control the shot." • succession of individual elimination con­ as Ihe Open championship. The top dog tests. Jones also believes that a medal­ is still the Open. The Brilish Open used to In preparing for a tournament, did II) play tournament is more attractive for the be, but today it's the American Open." Jones spend long hours at the practice -;>; spectators. Bob Jones had evaluated players and , like such moderns as Ben Hogan? r "A person can mill around one place tournaments for us. ow we asked him to "No;' Bob said, "I was not much of a ;:: and see nearly everybody in the tourna­ evaluate golf courses. What was the practice-tee fellow. That was no good for » ment," he said. "But in match play, when toughest course he ever played-the one me, because on the golf course you've got An amazing new tool for industry, z you get down to the final and there's he would least like to tackle again? to make the first shot, not the eighth one. farm. service or home usc. Wide ver­ II) only one match-only two people play­ "The ones that are tough are the ones On a practice tee you haven't got that satility. Combines the function of I ing-ifyou don't run your damn head off, that you most like to tackle," Jones re­ sense of responsibility. seven tools into one. Use it 88 an - impact. wrench, drill, screwdriver, 1) you don't see anything." sponded. "The thing I dreaded was to get "A lot of the things you do wrong on a wire brush, hole saw, polisher or tap­ • A remarkable feature of Bob's own on an easy golf course, especially a short golf course, you do wrong because you're per. Sets nuts from I,," to 1 1'\1" on a success in the big tournaments was the onc with a lot of -and-pitch holes on thinking too much about your swing. productipn lincoron the wheels of the II) family car. Drills 1 2" holes in metal fact that he was an amateur-the only one it. J liked a course where length in twO When you get on a golf course, you or I " in wood. Compact. Powerful. ;>; in this century who could consistently shots was imponant, not length in one shouldn't think of anything but what See your local SKIL distributor [or - a free demonstration. r outdo the top pros. Did they resent it? shot. I felt my driving was probably a lit­ happens from here to there. Just say, ;:: "If they did, they didn't show it," tle more consistent than some of the other 'Here's the ball, and I want to knock it » Jones replied. ··In facl, I think the golf I fellows', and that I could play the brassies, over there,' and then go ahead and knock z enjoyed the most of all Ihe golf I ever spoons and long irons at least as well. it over there." II) played was the practice rounds I got in "Of all the courses I've played tourna­ Jones summed up, "If you want a mes­ I- with the pros before the Open champion­ ments on;' Bob Jones continued, "if I sage from me to golfers around the coun­ 1) ships. And of all Ihe people I could be had to be sentenced to play only one try, that's it. Don't worry about your • paired with in an Open, the ones I liked to course the rest of my life, I would pick St. swing after you get on the first tee. If you play with the most were Gene Sarazen, Andrews, in , because it changes haven't learned to play by then, it's too Q. Number One, and Walter Hagen, Num­ so much and there's nothing about it - , , late-if you haven't learned to swing by 1: ber Twp." About the colorful and uncon­ that's obvious. then, that is." fI) ventional Hagen, Jones testified, "He was "The way we build a course in this We ventured the opinion that there Harvie Ward, the U. S. he ever withdrew from a tournament. Then you've got to use those sources of Amateur champion in 1955 and 1956, was "But pretty soon J studied the course. and power in a certain order-unwinding the barred from amateur competition for a by the time I played there in 'Twenty. hips, leading, unwinding the trunk, lead· year for having accepted some tourna­ ing the downswing, pulling with the arms. ment-expense money from his auto­ The final uncocking of the wrists is the dealer employer. Without referring spe­ culmination of the blow. But you can't be cifically to the Ward case, Fred Russell thinking about all those things and about asked, "Where do you think the line Put it This Way where you want the ball to go, And where should be drawn between the amateur you want it to go is the most important." who can operate on his own, travel on his By FRANKLIN P. JONES Our next query was this: Would Jones own, and the amateur who is sponsored be willing to comment on the golfing tech­ and sort of supported in some way by a nique of his friend, President Eisenhower, patron?" A bargain is anything on which for whom the Augusta National Golf "I feel this way, Freddy," Jones de­ there is no down payment. Club has been a favorite vacation retreat clared. "Professional golf is a fairly hon· in recent years? orable profession, and if a boy wants to \\'hen two women lie to conceal "I don't mind;' Bob said. "He's a lot play golf and doesn't happen to be lucky each other's age, they're twins. better than a\'erage. He takes a good cut enough to have a father with means, I at the ball, he knocks it a good ways, and think the best thing for him to do is play • if he could play enough to acquire a short as a pro. If he doesn't want to make golf The best thing for baldness ISa game that was commensurate with his his life work, then J think he oUght not to nicel)" shaped skull. long game, he could score pretty weU. be playing in too many tournaments until Unfortunately I haven't been able to play BRAKES he's made enough money where he can Too often, the way to a man's golfwirh him, because it was in 1948 that afford to do it. I think it's bad for him Ihe I gOI Ihis disability. But I've enjoyed rid· other way." heart trouble is throu~h his EASILY INSTALLED stomach. ing the cart around and watching him Said Harry Paxton, "Leaving the play. I kept score for him one day down ON PRESENT CAR amateur question out of it, you don't there in Augusta, and I think he had an think it's inconceivable, then, that a man \\Then a woman docs as she's eighty·two, and he had Ihrown away at ASK THE MAN today could win as high a percentage of told, she's probably a parent. least five shots around the green by not the national tournaments he played in as having the touch. J'\'e also played two R you did?" The safest way to go around a rubber.; of bridge wilh the President, but "}';"o, not at all," was the reply. "You J'm not good enough for him there." know, it's easier to win a high percentage corner on two wheels is On a SOUTH BEND IND. From November to May nowadays BENDIX of national tournaments than it is a high bicycle. Bob Jones (Conlinuld on Pag~ 75) 75

(Contil/ued from Page 72) spends many country and in some foreign countries," "Oh, no," Bob Jones declared em­ to win the four of them, I decided that of his weekends at Augusta. His home is Jones graduated in mechanical engi­ phatically. "I think I enjoyed playing in would be a good time to stop." in Atlanta, where he lives on Tuxedo neering at , took English tournaments more before I began winning Would he have stopped if he hadn't Road with his wife and the youngest of literature at Harvard and then studied them, because then you've gOt nothing on won all four? his three children. daughter Mary Ellen. law at . " I don't ac­ your mind but your hat. and no special "That's very hard to answer. 1 think I He has an older daughter, Mrs. William tively practice law any more;' he said. "I reputation 10 live lip to, and no responsi­ might have. But there wouldn't have been H. Black, and a married son, Robert Tyre found that you can't work at the law and bilities. ,. any occasion to make any announcement Jones 111. There are five grandchildren, 100 many other things at the same time." Was there a precise moment in 1930 of retirement. Had I not won all four one of whom is Robert Tyre Jones IV, It has often been written-and Jones when Jones made up his mind to quit? championships I wouldn't have had the Incidentally, the original Robert T. Jones agrees-that during his early years in '" think maybe I decided a little earlier opportunity to make some golfmovies"­ was Bob's grandfather. Bob's father­ golf, Bob had trouble controlling his than that, on a contingent basis," Bob which disqualified him as an amateur­ who died in 1956-was Robert P. Jones. temper. However, he was literally a child s.:,id reAcctively. " I felt that I might have "and I probably would have gone on play­ Bob has plenty of things to keep him in those days. He was a prodigy of four­ won all four championships in 1926"­ ingone tournament a year for a few years. occupied these days. including the presi­ teen when he entered his first national when he took the U. S, and British Opens Or maybe I just wouldn't have sho\\ed dency of the Augusta National Golf Club. championship-the 1916 U. S. Amateur. and was runner-up in the U. S. Ama­ up. That's really what I had in mind. I "My principal business interest:' he told in which he reached the third round-and teur- hand I knew we were to play the didn't intend to make any formal retire­ us "is the Jones golf clubs made by he played in a total of eleven national matches in Great Britain in ment. I just decided I was going to quit." S~alding. That's a relationship that ~as tournaments before finally crashing 1930, which happens only once every four We had one last, inevitable Question. endured since 1931. They make a full hne through with his first big victory in the years. Does Bob Jones think he could have done of golf clubs with my name on it: a~~ I 1923 U. S. Open. "So I figured that in 1930 I'd have a as well in golf today? assist in the designing and promotion - During those years when he was just crack at winning all four at one time"­ " I would rather somebody else would he is vice president of the .Sales missing out, did he ever get discouraged his only other opportunities had been in speculate about that;' he said. "But I Corporation. "Then I have some. 1I1te~­ to the point where he thought of giving 1921 and 1926. '·1 took a little more pains haven't seen anything around that would ests in Coca-Cola bottling plants 111 this up tournament golf? in 1930 to get ready. When 1 did manage discourage me from tryi ng: '

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