1930–31 Volume 55 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

FRANK M. HARDT, Pennsylvania, '01, and "BOBBY" JONESTaken at the Club House of the Merion Cricket Club, September, 1930,during the 34th National Amateur Go!f TournamentmManaging the National AmateurGolf TournamentBy RUSSELL H. FITZGIBBONHanover, '24I HE press associations carried their come out only gradually. In it, ^ A 0'stens of thousands- of words last fall Frank 11. Hardt {Pennsylvania, '01)about how 2 A E's Bobby Jones wonthe National Amateur at Philadelphiaplays perhaps the most prominent roleof all. For he was the chairman of thelast fall and thereby hung up a record tournament committee of the Merionfor the others to shoot at. But they Cricket Club, host to the fourth ofdidn't say so much about the more prosaicbut none the less important story Managing the tournament! They areBobby's triumphs.of how the affair on which the eyes of just three words but they implythe nation were focused was managed. months of hard work in advance,That is a story which, due largely attention to a host of details, and systematicbusiness organization whichto the modesty of the participants, has[473]