The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-24
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 JESSE SWEETSER


 JESSE SWEETSER
 Jesse Sweetser is the seventh won der of golf and also he is the other six
 The first thing that flashed across my mind when President E. NJ. Byers of the United States Golf association passed to Sweetser the great cup emblematic of the title of champion amateur golfer of the United States, was that Sweetser, in attaining the championship at Brookline. had won for himself a constantly increasing measure of personal popularity dur ing his matches at Brookline, and that he would be a popular title holder. It was apparent that every one present at the ceremonies inci- dent to the formal passing of the cup to Sweetser was happy that this superb youngster had won it. The fact that he became more and more popular with the thousands of enthusiasts who followed the matches at Brookline speaks volumes for the magnetic and wholesome per-
 sonaIity which Sweetser possesses ana the more so when 1t is recalled that In his victories he dethroned Jesse Guilford of Boston, last years 1 champion. Ordinarily that would make a player who threatened to capture the title unpopular, regard less of where the championship might be held. If Boston golfers were inclined to resent Sweetser's success because of the Guilford de- feat. they turned toward him as the week progressed. He even eclipsed Bobby Jones in local favor. and Jones always is a hero with the gall leries.
 Boost for Gotham Sweetser has the distinction of being the only young golfer to come to the front out of 100000 souls in Greater New York. The First City has had no champion prior to Sweet ser since the days of Jerry Trayers and he was a New Yorker by proxy only. He stands almost alone In New York, as he is the only young anna teur of national prominence the city has developed.
 In an article & year ago I men tioned Sweetser as very promising candidate for the amateur title and spoke of his wonderful mashie shots. 1 l believe he Is by far the best mashie and mashie niblick player in the | United States. if not in the whole l Kingdom of golf. 1 have never seen another player who can negotiate the tremendous distances that Sweetser gets with his mashie. midiron push shot for the ordinarily good player | seemingly Is an easy mashfe shot for 1 him. His accuracy with his mashie niblick is best illustrated by the fact that he holedt three niblick ap- breaches during the championship.
 That is another record, l think, for championship play, and he missed l holing sVeral more by a matter of l inches.
 The stymie King
 He has a fine swing with very straight left arm, and with the full distance back on the upswing. He Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of his whole game, however, is his l ability to place stymies. Those who followed the matches began styling him the "stymie king" and not with out reason. In his match with Guil- ford, the big Bostonian was stymied II times, l was told. During the championship round with me, Sweet ser put dead stymies before me six times Once he stymied me with such amazing accuracy that in astonish- ment I asked him why the deuce he 1 didn't hole them, since the hole was a bigger target than thet llne2 He said he just wanted to see me curve one, that he had heard it could be done. They can be curved sometimes. But Guilford can testify with me that no player can curve them into the cup as accurately as Sweetser can put down the necessity for doing so.
 Sweetser was born in Kentucky. He played his first golf in St. Louis when he was 12 years old. He won the intercollegiate championship for Yale in 1920. He has competed four times in the national amateur, at Oakmont, Pittsburg, where he failed by a stroke to qualify in 1919. Next at the Engineers club, New York, where he defeated Ned Sawyer and then was eliminated by Freddie Wright, formerly of Boston, now of California, and last year at St. Louis, where he played me to the last green, where I eliminated him with lucky putt of 30 feet. He was entitled to extra holes with me last year. He is student at Yale.
 Copyright, Johne F. Dille Col