The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-09-23
EVANS DEFEATS
JESSE SWEETSER
Amateur Champion Viii Play Guilford
Of Boston IN seni-Finals
Today.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 22-In two spec
tacular matches that ended on the
3eth green today In the national anna
teur golf championship at the st.
Louis Country Club, Chick Evans, de-
tending his title. defeated Jesse Sweet
ser, OF New York, by one up and
Jesse Guilford, of Boston, eliminated
Harrison Johnston, Of st. Paul. by the
same score. bringing them together in
the semi-finals tomorrow.
In q closer, though not so thrilling
contest in it's finish, Willie Hunter,
British champion, defeated Bobby
Jones, Of Atlanta. 2sand 1, after being
down to the Georgian nearly all day,
and won the right to contest the other
semi final match with Robert Card
ner, OF Chicago, twice former cham
pion, who bested r. z. Knepper, of
Sioux City, and 2.
The most dramatic finish was FUR
nished by Evans, who. in defending
his title, had to shoot a rs in the
morning to lead Sweetser by two up,
the New Yorker, having scored a rs.
Evans, on the third nine, with a SO to
Sweetser's 3S, became careless with
his putter and after dropping the 32nd
hole by taking three puts, he lost
the 33rd, where Sweetser scored a
birdie. Evans found himself only two
up and three to go.
He frightened his game and dropped
his tee shot on the 180-yard oath, ten
feet to the left of the cup. Sweetser's
drive was 80 feet from the hole, but
he managed to haIve in three when
Evans well studied putt stopped short
because Of the mud on the ball.
Evans reached for the vantage point
on the left side of the 35th. fairway.
but pushed his iron second to the en-
bankment at the right of the green
and took a FIVE when his mashie nib
lick stubbed its nose on the side of
the incline. losing the hole and be-
coming dormie one. He slightly
sclaffed his drive on the home hole
and was two hundred yards short of
the green behind a hill. while Sweet
ser, playing steadily drove to a good
position past the end of the torrnin-
tory.
Evans decided to end the contest
and, taking brassie he cut a beau
tiful shot and the BAH dug into the
fairway like mashie pitch, stopping
a few feet beyond, but 25 to the right
OF the cup on the sloping green.
Sweetser again showed his fighting
qualities by plunking an iron IL feet
to the left of the flag. Evans sur
veyed his treacherous putt and then
planted his feet firmly for the effort
to hole out. The putt took the hill
side as though 1t were running through
q slot and dropped into the hole for
a birdie three without any semblance
Of a gobbler side slip. Sweetser did
not try to hole his putt as it would
not have done him no good and Chick
generously conceded him three, max
ing his defeat one down instead of
two. as it likely would have been.
The match between Hunter and
Bobby Jones was the reverse Of the
Evans and Sweetser contest, the win
ner being down, nearly all the way.
The Atlanta player, going out in 3d.
one under par. made the first turn
two up and although he slipped on
the second nine and took Al he was
still two up at the 18th hole with
his rs.
The British champion soon over
came this advantage in the afternoon
when Jones found a bunker with his
second on the 10Th and took five,
while the Briton scored a four after