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64 pp. Illustrated from photographs, drawings, ads, etc. 11½x8½, original color pictorial saddle stitched magazine wrappers. Cover image features painting of Bobby Jones by Eleanor Harris.

Scarce and legendary Bobby Jones Time Magazine cover issue, Grand Slam year, one week before he finalized the epic feat on Sept. 27, 1930. Sports section contains a 2-page article (pp.27-28) about Bobby Jones and the 1930 U.S. Amateur (at Merion Cricket Club, Pennsylvania). Article states: “Robert Tyre Jones Jr. likes being called ‘Robot, the Mechanical Man of Golf,’… Brilliant 2’s at the short holes may thrill the galleries, dazzling birdies and eagles on the long holes strengthen one’s confidence. But down-in-four, down-in-four, down-in-four is a champion’s march-beat. The problem for whoever wins at Merion is to keep that step all week.”