The New York herald., 1921-08-28
JESSE ". SWEElSER
RETAINS GOLF CUP
Defeats Robert Lay 4 and 5 in
the Final Of Victory
Tourney.
BRILLIANT PLAY SHOWN
II. NJ. Lewis and j. G. Anderson
Lose in Scmi-Einal at
Sleepy Hollow.
~ KERR y. PETRIE.

Playing a game thar was seriously
threatening the record Of the links
when the match came 10 an end on the
fifteenth green, James W. Sweetser OF
Siwanoy and Yale, former intercol-
Iegiate champion, yesterday defeated
Robert Lay Of Ekwanok, up and to
May. in the final of the Victory cup
goIf tournament. thereby successfully
defending the trophy which he won q
year ago at Wykasyl.
For a while ii looked as IL history
would repeat itself and that Sweetser
and John G. Anderson would be found
fighting it out in the last round exactly
ss they did a year ago. Swsetser first
lad 70 deal with Reginald " Lewis.
the Connecticut State champion, and
while Jesse came through 5 and 2,
Nineteen hole john" as they called
anderson a year or two ago, managed
10 reverse the old process 50 that he
went down before Lay on the nine
1eenth green.
By winning the cup Sweetser made
clean sweep OF the tournament. as ne
already hal won the qualifying medal
after a double play off with Lee w.
Maxwell The Siwanoy star mas also
he proud record of being finalist in
each Of the three years since the Vic
tory cup was placed in competition. In
the first year at Swanoy, his debut
year, he lost to ID. IL. Sawyer en- the
rhirty-eighth green. Now Sweetser has
he trophy reeling on its pedestal and II
Die continues to improve 1t Is going TO
take a herculean effort on lie part
If the golfers TO keep the trophy in
competition for 1923.
Sweetser's golf yesterday was of
very high quality. for he was around
in 72 against Lewis and two under fours
for the fifteen holes played in the
final. That pace was just wee bit too
fast for Lay. who was playing in his
first big tournament and who, more
over, did not begin to WELD 4 driver,
1nashie, niblick or any other implement
Of the game until after the national
amateur championship at Detroit In
1915. 1t was that tournament, in fact,
that made a golfer of Lay for, after
watching the struggles OF his fellow
townsmen, Jimmy Standish. Howard
Lee and the others, Bob decided that
golf was the game for him. While in
Yale. Lay gained fame as a football
player He is so keen on the royal and
ancient sport. however. that ne now
wishes that national championship had
come TO Detroit when he was ten years
younger.
Began to Play i'm 1915.
For q man who has played the game
so short a time Lay Is quite a star. His
driving Is not as long as 1t might be
if he were ready TO sacrifice distance for
direction but ne is building his game
on solid foundation. and, watching him
at Sleepy Hollow. one felt thas he al
ready is in possession of game that
tt.1t sfa gts
produce.
Beginning with a IS in the medal
round-the low score was 74-Lay then
proceeded to lay low Joseph G. Nc
Mahon, Jr., former Westchester junior
champion, who learned his game on
Sleepy Hollow, and III. G. Welborn. 1t
wasn't considered likely that Robert
would get away with Anderson, the for
mer national runner up, but. as already
has been told. this Il exactly what hap
pencd. At this stage 1t Is interesting to
recall that Lay saw Anderson win the
national finalist medal at Detroit in
1915 before he himself had learned to
swing a club.
The Anderson-Lay match was not
marked by brilliant play. AS a matter
of fact it was scrappy, decidedly so.
Lays tee shots we're not working
smoothly in that game. However, he is
and by selling openings on the green
and throwing very little away he pro-
Ceeded 10 make Ii extremely interesting
for Anderson, who also was having an
off day
After little give and take Lay won
three of five holes from the fifth to the
ninth, where he was up. Anderson
won the tenth and eleventh.. lost Abe
twelfth and then annexed the fourteenth
and sixteenth 10 bring the match square.
on the seventeenth Anderson gave
very remarkable display OF golf, playing
something after the manner Of Cyril
Walker on the thirteenth hole al silva
noy in ihe metropolitan open champion
ship. For Anderson Il was a series OF
bunker shots that carried the ball from
ono pit % another and yielded some
thing like an 5, leaving Lay dormie i.
Squares on Home Green.
Playing the home hole Lay then got
of the line and into trouble. and when
Anderson squared the match II looked as
u h. were 70 play true 10 form and
scramble through on the extra hole
ON this occasion, however. the machine
proved 70 be out Of gear. for Anderson
started with . topped tee shot and was
playing three to his opponents two MS
they aimed for the green. Lay won
with a par f.
Although he went out IN 35 Sweetscr
had Lewis only two at the turn. but he
carried Off tho tenth and eleventh to
become up With the man who in
tho national championship last year car
ficd Chick Evans 10 the forty-first hole
brought his opponent back to three
holes Beyond that he could not bulge
him. and with q succession OF halves the
cGpholder entered the final.
Lay made an interesting match Of
tho hnal up 70 a certain point. He had
his brilliant opponent down. with only
siN played, but once the Siwanoy star
found his game he pulled right away.
Swcetser lost the first on an extra putt,
and, although he won the second on d
topped shot hy Lay. he was powerless
% prevent the fourth and sixth from
slnping away from him. on the fourth
Lay holed an eighteen foot putt on the
eixth Sweetser missed a short one.
Then IL came Sweetscrs turn He
hoicd good putt to win the seventh.
and he got the match back 70 even
terms when his opponent reached the
-.sp ~ front of the ninth green.
Coming back Sweetser continued "a
play In scintillating form. A par gave
him thp 4r,I Ia "a 1 -. ~.