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Friday, July 12, 192'J LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. Page Seven 1 Bobby Jones Greatest Miracle Man; Stewart Maiden Taught Him to Play BRITISH NAVY BIDS GOOD-BYE l TO DEAD CREW Ity .lrnn Allnn (AsHorlHtMl I'ivbk Sports Writer) f ATLANTA, A1 A miracle rliild I'oi-fvor in entering the temple ' ol HportH mi! remiiinhitf to grow up. iin Idol of the faithful. The Ktoekyunls nf rhieapo turn ' tliem out: the MuniH m" .Yw York, tlx- u i'lt. roo! Ht let-is of tint olil t .south. A lumpy, overgrown hoy in 1 a Baltimore (rphiimtKo ritw into ' Hahe liulh. Th. tutifrh kid of u Mormon Ht'ith'tnent tM-cunii' JnHt li nipwey. Waller Johnson's api-i'd j first was apparent when In was u sand tot urchin. j And in Atlanta a skinny, unwell Iml swatted a wolf hall about with j a wnhhly inaslile .sceklnK the . health whleh lu found and IitytnK , the foundation lor a same he hud no need to suk. j Atlanta had one golf eourse and elllldren were not cneiiuraged hut i liohhy Jones had within him Urn ' Fpnrk of KdiiiiH whieh had mi need for -environment, Hjbb had a i innshie and a handful of halln. He played aeross the "bark lot" nnu holed out in a ditch. He watched others ami particularly he watched Stewart .Maiden, a Scot from Car noustie. The boy rew older and was permitted to play Hast Lake.' ills swintf, which was the .Maiden switiK, in miniature, attracted at tention. H Interested the Scot. Maiden taught ami the youngster practiced. He had a comrade in Alexa Sterling, who beat him to a championship. At 1- his hondi cap was near the top uf the hoard. At M'Iip was champion ot the south. That sum i year he entered the na tional amateur. Bob Jones is twice as old now as when he played al Merion. II" Una won three national opens, two Hrillsh opens and the nnmtcur title four times. He has et cour.se records and tournament records; almost every round he plays is ii. record of some sort. Itut he is not a professional golf er, not even a Roller whoso entire Interest is golf. It. T. Jones, jr., has a law practice of considerable Importance. I'Yom September to May his devotion Is to Ills office. He scarcely plays a round n week l'or beside his legal work arc weekly articles on golf which are written in painstaking longhand which finally he has trained a typ ist to read. Two years ago with O. U. Keel er he wrote his autobiography. The south Is a scattered area and there are no championship courses below the line. Nor are there many golfers able to provide stiff oppo sition once the Young Marster oe chlos to go into training. East Lake is a fine course and a hard course hut the climate is not kind to fairways and greens. The club members are capable golfers, but they must have their handicaps. Lst Lake taught Bob to play and Kast Lake keeps him In shape He travels little except In the tour nament season. His genius holds his game, even improving it each year in spite of his opinion that tournament play grows harder each year. And when all is said. Boh Jones plays one sort of golf the rest ot the world, aiv-ther. P KM IIUOK K Wales. July 1 J (Al) The British navy has said Hs good-bye to the SI men who went to death in the sunken sub marine, H-47. Just at sunset hist night the mighty battleship Koduey led six destroyers and five submarines over I he spot where the suhmer aie went down Tuesday, after col lision with the 1.-12, and rendered Impressive last honors to the men ltd feel below thelil. A whort memorial service, was con 1-ictcd aboard the Uodney, wreaths were cast Into the sea, and the big guns of the hutllosh:p and her auxiliaries boomed In final sal ute to the gallant dead. The admiralty announced that In view of the certainty all the men were dead further salvoge efforts would be abandoned. Ragweed Pollen Blizzard In East Described By Botanist In Portland Rebel Chief lain, 11 Soldiers Killed . BOUTLANl), Ore., July - .1AI1) i-A ragweed pollen IdtxKiml which fll!s the air of (he eastern half of billions of toxic particles was de scribed here today by o. i lur- hnm. a botanist of Indianapolis, be fore the American. Association for the Study, of Allergy. The study embraces bay fever, asthma and kindred ailments, .Mr. Durham presented ' surveys on this leader among the demons ( which beset hay fever ' victims, which ho obtained from . lii cities in the United Slates. They showed that the air of Oklahoma "ity dur ing the ragweed season carried SI 4 pollens per cubic yard, whereas New Orleans air contained only 75 per cubic yard ami Phoenix, AHy.., atmosphere was almost entirely free of the pollen, showing only ,0.1. ! t'ltles located on great bodies of j water-showed much less pollen, as a rule, than inland places. Ann Ar bor. Mich., had a score of r.'.tO, vhereas Detroit had only 11.1, Uugo cities showed less pollen. New York shmving only 50 and Phila delphia 15. j .Mr. Durham said the invisible storm lasts from 1T to 50 days. During this time thousands of tons 'of pollen are picked up by the sum mer winds and held in Mispension In ciinsta'nlly varying quantities in the lower several thousand feet of air. Due to the shorter season of plant growth, he added, the storm begins, earlier and is of shorter duration In the northern states than it Is In the south, the climax sweping In about four weeks from Minnesota to Texas. Oregon Fire Loss Low Daring June SALKM, Ore., July 12 (AT) The Oregon fire loss, outside of Portland, for the nmnih of June totaled $11)7,144. says the month ly .report of flare A, Lee, slate fire marshal. Only two of, tit fires were of incendiary origin. lias anybody recommended for the t'arnegle medal the Washing ton woman who recently made the courageous Innovation of serving u patty without liquor? j Lent Day In Far North ; From May i:t to Jul.x IL' the sun never sei on the village nf Hum 1 merfesl. Xoiway. eoiililfifil Hm ! uorlhcrmuo-i limn in the world The 1 inhnhhitms lake ndvimiage n the hum day hi nutklns cod-liver oil and iHHlini h .for eonuuoi;iies from soul hern purls. Mothen, Don't Yell The woman who let I ho com mon sense to (all; id her children' misdemeanors In low: coin rolled tones has .(ul iwico the chmieo of making Iheiu come to Iho desired end, American Mag::ziue. Gen. Hammond Named Editor Of Philippines WASHINGTON, JJuty 12, (AP) President Hoover announced the appointment of Major General freed ( Hammond of Oregon as auditor nf the Philltppine. islands. Oeneral Hammond, formerly 1 chief of the militia bureau of the war department succeeds Hen l' Wright, whose resignation has been accepted1 by the president. Although nearly all of the state governors, had urged General Ham mond's retention In the post he held here, the war department In sisted that officers should rotate In the plant. Washington and lias un outMand-'. log record in army affairs, ltecently when . he completed lour years ns enter or tne miuttu ) bureau, governors of many western states and civic organizations peti tioned the secretary of war to ro-: appoint Major General Hammond. Hoe rotary of War Good announced that he" would be ruled by a de- cision made a year ago that mili tia bureau chiefs serve only a four year term. .' Major General Hammond was born In Lam county, Oregon, Oc tober it, lf74. Besides being a dep--my sheriff of that county, ho ban served in important bank positions and Is a member of various mili tary organisation. He is a Spanish and, PhilllppluY war vetaran. a member of the military order ot t'arahao, scabbard and blade, o Journers, heroes of '76. army. and navy club and the army, navy ami marine club, . Ills home is Kngene, Ore, POUTLAND, Ore.. July 12, (AP Major General Oreed t Ham mound nf Oregon, appointed today bv President Hoover as auditor of II the Phflllppino Islands, waa form-' thought everything was fair out erty chief of the militia bureau In there. woman wns denied a boxing use tn Hollywood. And wo ' MKXK'O CITY. July 12 (AIM A war department announcement today, said Faustina Gonzales, ( "CrispVro" Chieftain and 11 of his j men, . were killed in a battle with I federals at the village of Ton. nisi -. Ian, Jalisco. 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