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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20089, 19 November 1930, Page 15

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WORLD CHAMPION RETIRES. K. T. JONES'S ANNOUNCEMENT. casss association —by llixthjg TVLKORAPH COPYitIGITT. > NEW YOKJt, November 17. T. .Junes, the world's champion goU'er, to-day announced his retirement from competitive sol*. He is the holder at present of the British and .American open and amateur championships. Jones announced his intention to make <i series of talking pictures of a purely educational character. TIo said that this "would i'vubably alTect. hi, amateur .«tand:i-;-- !«. f Jjouby > Jones or: ij i T t.'.O: amateur championship of tne Southern L*'i:t.od States —s tilie he won acm in in J920 ai:d '»022. lie wuk runner-up for th»i American amateur ch:tnipions<iip in 1019. ami was a semi-finalist in ly2o. Entering for the Jiritish open championship in 302), he tore up his CRrd in the third round. He was defeated iu the fourth round of the British amateur championship that year. Tn 1921 he wa« chosen as a representative of the United States against Groat Britain. In 1022 he was runner-up in thr- American open championship, and a seuii-finali3t in the > Ulrica n amateur championship. I*i IQ2H Jones won th».' A mer: «:a n onon, but he was second in that event in 7 92 1, when h<} won the American amateur championship. He crowned his career this year hv winning thfi> British op-n and amateur and the American open and amateur championships. His principal successes in the las; six years are as follows: —-Won American amateur: double tie with W. MacFarlane for American open, hut lost in replay. 192t)--\Von oppn and British open; runner-up (to O. von Elm) in American amateur: beaten in sl::th round of British amateur. 102 7—Won British open ;ind American amateur. .1928—Won American amateur: tied with J Farreli 'n final for American open, but lost on replay. 1029—Won American open. ID.lo—Won British open end amatour and eri csn and amateur.