The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-01

Three college men, each 90 years
years old, in the semiflnals and
final! Colt looks like Il college
mans sport.
Jesse Sweetser is one Of the great
est golfers that ever won n cham
/ IpiOnship. amateur or professional.
| lie is a natural athlete. He was
/ born In Louisville, Ky, whore they
raise great horses and fine men. His
present home is in BrOnXvllle, New
/ York city. Jesse IL six feet tall,
weighs 1Gj pounds, and is OF a clean
cut athletic build. He walks with
a springy stride and never tires.
In his first year at Yale he went
out for the track team and became
fast quarter-miler. But Yale had
a lot Of good 440 men that year, and
Sweetser's. friends, who knew he had
a knack for golf, persuaded him TO
give up the track for the links. He
played HALE Gols while he was run
ming, but when he took up the game
in earnest in his second year quick
~ developed form that put him on
the team. lie won the intercollegi-
ate championship.
Star with the Mashic, He Plays for
the Pin.
Sweetser didn't learn his goltlng
style from professional coaches. He
studied It out himself and developed
IL by constant practice.
The last time New York had n ma
tional champion was IN 1913, when
jerry Travors won the title. Sweet
ser entered the national at Pitts
burgh in 10 and failed TO qualify by
one stroke. In 1920 he was defeated
In the third round by Fred Wright
Of Boston. In 1921 at st. Louis Jesse
lost in the second round. to Chick
Evans, one down at the Eighteenth
hole. BY a turn OF luck IL was Chick
Evans he defeated this year In tho
final match at Brookllne. He won
tho Metropolitan champ pionship last
year at Lakewood.
Sweetsor never has been beaten
twice by the same man. Like Benny
Leonard, the lightweight boxing
champion, he always knows how TO
outplay his rival when they meet
again. Evans, Jones and Ouimet
have beaten him in tho past, but all
lost to him in tho next match.
His athletic build enables him to
drive very long ban without effort.
In the championship match he out
drove Chick Evans by an average OF
10 yards, and probably could have
liA'l 'A0'h NllhL MAI klu buA lNI Nllf
fact that BrOoklinc Is not a long
course and long driving isn't essen
tial
His best stroke is a high mashie
Like d. II. Taylor, he believes that
there are no bupkers IN the air"
His high maehie Shots drop straight
down. ana they stick even on the
hardest and smoothest greens. He
IL extremely accurate with all mashie
shots, long or short and always
plays for the pin Just the way a
marksman shoots for the middle Of
the bulIs-cye, In the champion
ships he holed out three mashie ap-
proachcs. The longest was about
ninety yards.
Swcctscr OF Many Course Records.
In the past two years Sweetscr has
shown his remarkable stcadiness by
breaking many course records around
New York.
the cup In the first nine holes
Brookline. whore scores Of the
worlds most famous golfers have
played for years, he broke the course
record, scoring at SO after Guilford
had broken the record with "A 20 in
the same tournament
No golfer ever defeated as many
famous players in successive matches
as Swectsqr did at Brookllne on
consecutive days he beat Willie
Hunter. English amateur champion
in 1921, Jesse Guilford, American
champion In 1921. Bobbie Jones. who
Is regarded by many as the finest