Evening star., 1922-09-10

more gracefully than DID Evans.
The blue of Eli flies high tonight
in Boston, Haunting itself in the face
of the crimson of Harvard. King
Jess, the champion. was carried off
the sixteenth green clear to the club
house, quarter of mile away, on
the shoulders of two admirinS class
mates al Yale.
Only after the match was over did
the Yale lad display the smile or
victory, relieved from the nervous
tension of one of the finest cham
pionship finals ever held. But Jess
playing against the man who twice
won the championship, never even
gave a hint of nervousness, never
looked at any time as if he would
crack. and matched the veteran. shot
for shot. through fairway and green.
outdoing the accurate Evans with
the irons, although Chick is conceded
TO be one of the greatest IN the
world through the green.
Evans Never in Lead.
The Chica goan was never in the
lead. although he got back on even
terms with Jess at the tenth in the
morning, when Chick won two holes
in a row.
lucky breaks this afternoon. Per-
haps these breaks won him the cham
pionship. combined with two stymies
against Evans in the morning The
breaks came to the champion. In
golf it is seldom the breaks go
against the better player. "A
Jess ball at the ninth thfs after-
noon. where he stood 2 up barely
rolled down the top of the hill over,
looking the green. The bail looked
as if it would stop. and 1t did Tor an
infinitesimal fraction of time But ~
rolled on. gathering momentum as ~
hill nd
brought up three feet beyond the
hole Evans in the meantime had
played a perfect pitch to the green
and deserved at worst half. But
he didn't make his twelve-foot putt,
and Sweetser. who didn't miss hole
against the bottom for birdie 10
turn 3 up.
That tenth hole also will live long
in the minds of the thousands who
travel over the hills and dales of
Brookline But a better behaved gal
Iery. never has witnessed a golf final.
and there must have been 10000 out
today
Sweetser pulled his niblick shot
after Evans had laid his pitch within
fifteen feet of the pin. Sweetser's
ball struck many yards of the green,
cauSht a dip in toward the green and
again rolled tantalizingly down
toward the putting surface 1t hung
for a moment in the fringe of grass
at the edge of the green and then.
gathering momentum. again ran
down to give Jess a putt Instead of
a tricky pitch down a hill to the pin
on the edge of a trap, Jess could use
tho putter. Those are the breaks that
decide championships, and usually
they favor the champion.
stymies Play a Part.
Figures. while they tell the story Of
a golf match in no uncertain fashion.
do not convey the true story sometimes.
1t Is so in this case. Evans, the &C
ourate, took sixtytwo puts or the thir-
ty-four holes played, while Sweetser
took sixty-three puts. Evans was laid
two dead stymies. while he only laid
Sweetser one semblance OF stymie at
the fifteenth this afternoon to win the
hole and carry the match on.
Evans. who has not been in a half
dozen traps in his six previous tourna-
ment days was trapped four times dur
ing the final. Sweetser found the sandy
stretches three times, but was far su-
perior to Evans out of trouble. Evans
was inside Sweetser to the green eight
cen times while Sweetssr was inside
sixteen times. But Sweetser could make
the eight-foot puts. while Evans ball
would not stay down.
OF course, it was expected Evans
would be out-driven, for the veteran
from Edgewater Is not a long hitter.
preferring to be short and straight,
and he usually splits the middle with
his wooden shots. Sweetser consist
emily ane oGd forcing the
holes. That factor does not worry
Evans and it didn't today. Not long
putt was holed all day. although
Sweetser sank a good fifteen footer
at the fourteenth in the morning to
win. The number that ran up to the
ad
heartbreaking.
Next to Youngest Champion.
Sweetser. who learned his golf In
at Yale this fall. With the exception
of Bob Gardner, also a Yale man.
Sweetser is the youngest player to
win the national. Gardner won when
nineteen years of age at Chicago in
1909. Sweetser's victory today gives
the New York district its first cham
pion in nine years.
Jerome Travers was the last en-
trant from the big town to win, COM
ing through at Garden City In 1913
after playing off for last place in the
qualification round. Jess won the
metropolitan title last June at Lake.
wood from one of the best fields ever
entered. Last week he was beaten in
the international matches at South
ampton by Hooman Of England on the
thirty-seventh hole.
This afternoon Evans was out in
q So, one above par, and had not
picked up a hole on Sweetser, the
lad who has not yet reached the age
of suffrage. The veteran had heard
of the grand game put up by the
Siwanoy lad all week, but had not
had q closeup of it until today.
Truth Dawns ON Evans.
1t came to Evans with a dull thud
along about the middle Of the last
nine this morning, where Jess was
up, that here was potential
champion, youth without nerves,
who did not caro- what the other fel-
low did just 80 he played his own
shots we'll. They say there -
Psychology in golf. Not IL you play
your own game well. The new cham