GOLF.
The extraordinary interest now manifested in golf in the United States reached its climax in the winning of the Open Championship on Sunday by Bobby Jones. The newspapers carried pages describing the event. It is said that one million words on the subject were telegraphed by forty odd news- paper correspondents. To decide the regular seventy-two hole match it was necessary to play an extra thirty-six holes, and the element of luck played some part. Jones would have lost but for a fifteen foot putt on the seventy-second hole. He has now won three United States Open Champion- ships, two British Opens, and four United States Amateur Championships in seven years. In each of the American Opens for the past nine years he has either been first or second. No human being probably ever played golf like that, and yet he is only twenty-seven years old and an amateur in every sense of fine sportsmanship. His one regret is that he could not play in the British Open Championship this year.
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