The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-08
BIT FATE PLAY.


4 Brookline Country Club, Brook
line. Mass, Sept. S.-This is the
golden age of youth. The contest
ants in the semi-finals of the ma
tional amateur golf tournament,
played today were Bobby Jones,
~; Jesse Sweetzer, about the same
age: Rudy Knepper. the lad who
has placed Iowa City on the golf
map, and Chick Evans, the latter
being almost a veteran at 80.
Never before has a tournament
approached its final stages with so
much young blood at the front.
These kids, whose prowess is the
admiration Of the English visitors
a. well as everyone else, are taking
their golf seriously and are play
ing the game for all it Is worth.
Even the players who went down
to defeat Thursday were all young.
sters. Frank Godchaux. defeated by
Chick Evans; McPhail, who lost to
Jones; Guilford, the national cham
pion, who fell q victim to Sweet
ser's superior skill, and Cyril Toll
ley, the former English champion,
are all under 30 years of age. No
longer can 1t be said that golf is
an old mans game. There Is a
new generation coming up who will
not be denied and who are doing
their utmost to make golf the ma
tional game.
Close by the Brookline course is
4 . settlement where golfers are
born. Ouimet lives there and some
80 professionals. chief among whom
10 Tom Mcnamara, have left it to
60 out into the golfing world. Out
Of this settlement came McPhail,
who Thursday played q holes with
Bobby Jones and then was only
one down. He went to pieces on
the last nine Of the second round,
giving Bobby an easy victory after
q rather uncomfortable day. But the
kind Of golf he displayed before he
broke makes it certain that he will
b = figure in future events.
Britalns Are Out.
Cyril Tolley's defeat removed the
: last Of the invading English con-
testants from the tourney and was
staged in the presence of nearly
= 5000 people around the last greer
when he lost the 18th hole, aftel
being dormie one at the 18th.
The passing Of Jesse Guilford
tn national amateur champion, wa
intensely dramatic. He played
against odds all the way around II
the afternoon, Sweetzer runnin,
down an approach shot from of
the green for a par four and a vii
on the fifth hole afte; he had dub
bed his third shot. He then lai,
Cuilse7d stymie on the ninth
which resulted in STeetzer's bal
being knocked into the hole for
\ win. On the 18th green. when tn
match ended. Guilford, who wa
struggling for his life, tried to ne
gotiate another stymie to win tn
hole. but the ball failed to fall Ii
the cup.
The tournament has now resolv
cd itself into a battle royal amonl
Jones, Sweetner, Evans and Knep
ner. Jones is from the south
Sweetzer from New York and Ev
ans and Kncpper from the west
Knepper breaks into the big fou
for the first time in his life. an,
even II he should be defeated to
day. he has every reason to b.
happy in reaching the semi-finals
OF the quartet, Jones is perhap
the most anxious to win. He GOV
cts the honor and every shot tina
he plays against Sweetzer will b.
played to win.
you are due for the champion
ship." said one of his southern
friends today as they started of
# don't give much for the du,
stun" philosophically responded
Bobby, "but propose to give Jess,
Sweetzer q run for his life"