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To: mr.mark who wrote (3231)	3/16/1999 2:17:00 AM
From: X Y Zebra	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13015

"Well Pat, I have my heart, my lungs, and my so-called brain. We play it as it lies" Robert Tyre Jones, (Bob Jones) 1902 - 1971 The greatest golf player that ever lived, upon being ask about his health by Pat Ward-Thomas (British Golf writer), while visiting him at his cottage by the 10th. green, during one of the Masters Championship in Augusta. _______________ A small biography about Bob Jones... to celebrate his birthday (born March 17th. 1902) .... By the time he was 28, he had won 13 major tournaments, ending his career, with a "Grand Slam" win, (that is, winning both the US and British Opens and Amateurs, in the same year, 1930). He could sing Puccini arias in a rich baritone. He could swear magnificently. Drank prohibition corn whiskey. At age 18 he graduated from Georgia Tech. with a degree in mechanical engineering. At 21 earned a degree in English, from Harvard. At 24 he entered Emory University Law School... After his third semester he withdrew... to take the bar exam; he passed and practiced law for years. In making golf instructional films, he upstaged the likes of WC Fields, James Cagney, Joe E. Brown and others... At age 53 he was diagnosed with Syringomyelia, a chronic, degenerative disease of the spinal cord. (which he suffered for 22 years). Died in his sleep at age 69, at his home, on December 18th. 1971. In golf, and in life... He played it as it lied.