Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-09-09
BY The Associated Press)

Brookline. Mass. Sept. e.-Jesse
lsweetzer of New York, Metropolitan
champion. and Chick Evans of Chi
Ecago. best of the west, will meet to-
day to decide the national am
ateur golf championship for 1922
They advanced to the final round to-
day.
Bobby Jones of Atlanta. cham
tpion of the south, ven down seven
holes short of the SO hole distance
before the strokes of Sweetzer. The
golfing artistry of hick Evans. which
has brought him the national am
lateur and one national open titles, the
championship of France and leader
iship in the west, was exemplified anew
lat the expense of little Rudy Knepper,
This fellow gwesterner from Sioux City.
This was the greatest defeat. l up and
3 to play, but the score of eight up,
seven to play. by which Jones fell on
his fifth national amateur champion
ship wayside was the days urprise.
1t came, however, as nc fiuke. The
Metropolitan champion. a student at
Yale and former intercollegiate cham
ipion, played as none of the worlds
leading amateurs have played in this
tournament. Brides. even an eagle,
Iperched on his clubs in this forenoon
round of 50 strokes. two under par
and better han the competitive
score of 20 set by Jesse Guilford, ma
ltional champion, last Monday.
Fifth Record.
It was the ffth course record
fbroken by Sweetzer this He was
only little behind this in the after.
noon. Jones playing ordinary golf If
the morning. came back two under
tpar. his southern supporters lament.
hing the fate that had caused stymies
and adhering mud to handicap his ef
forts to surpass Sweetzer's super ef
forts. He won only two holes all day
Evans was peerless today. Wher
vantage over Jones by chipping
mashie niblicks to the cup. Evan.
played perfectly to the green and ther
perfectly to the cup. In the presenc.
Of such play. young Knepper founc
himself the student. a miring rather
than rivaling. Twice he was almos
agap when he was told that Evans
approach or his drive had struck tn.
flag marking the pole. In the end
Evans let up a little with a lead O.
~ holes.
Sweetzr Not Lenient-
Sweetzer. conqueror. was not lenien
with his opponent today. whose JUNO,
he is by one month. With a mornin.
card Of So, the Yale lad proved tina
h isadvance in the was n,
two holes of the match and he replied
to the Atlanta boys efforts to mattel
him only by trying harder. His ap
proaches and his puts were easil.
super to Jones except in the secont
half of the morning round.
Sweetzer's record breaking card wa
earned. for n made no concession
in the morning round except on on,
occasion when his ball was on tn,
showed that he was at his best whel
he holed a chip from the edge of tn
green for IN eagle two. He called
birdie to his aid at the sixth whel
his second was only three inches from
the cup on a 2S5 yard hole. The hol
became his when Jones putt strucl
his ball. The Atlanta lad did not 6
down without a struggle. Beaten i
five successive periods in the frs
half of the morning round to stan,
six down at the turn. he came bac,
in "a. two under par, blu was able t
win only one hole in nine. SIEVE
successive holes were halved, two q
them in less than par and the other
in par. The run vas broken onl
when Sweetzer took three puts an
conceded Jones an Is inch putt an
the nOle at the 1fLn. Inen the
halved the ext in par four. On thi
round the match was won and lost.
Putting on.
Jones' putting was not always UP t
his usual standard and he misse
puts at several critical points. The
driving was about equal, the balls q
several occasions lying close togetht
but Sweetzer's approaches were be
ter and usually dead to the pin. It W.
seldom that Sweetzer fell off on h
putting but when he did as on II
90th hole, the southerner was hot c
his trail. The twentieth was tt
second and last hole Jones won and /
won il or Jesse's error.
3Wh4p at the 18th green. Jon,
found hat he could not do better tha
halve and lose, he picked up DO,
balls and with q smile, shook hand
Evans leading Knepper six up
the end Of the morning round, turns
the afternoon battle into q debacle |
winning v OF the next nine hole
outside gof Pep Young at secon
Connie Mack has had a busy sease
I shifting around his infielders.