Sport: British Open
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Said Jones: "I was lucky. . . ." Said his father in Atlanta: "Of course we are very happy and proud, but we got a bigger kick out of the Amateur. . . ."
On Lloyd's Insurance Exchange, London, odds against "Robot" Jones' winning all four major titles in 1930 dropped from 50 to 1 to 25 to 1.
*In 1890. Jones is the only golfer who has been simultaneously Amateur and Open Champion of Great Britain, and Open Champion of the U. S. In 1916 Charles ("Chick") Evans Jr. of Chicago was first (and so far only) man to win both the U. S. Open and Amateur in the same season.
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