Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-10
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GOLF HONOR At
bR00KL|NE MEET
National Championship Is
Wrested From Charles
Evans, 3 Up and 2 to
Play; Youth TriumphS.

The Country Club, Brookline,
Mass, Sept. (by the Associated
Press) The national amateur golf
championship was won today by
Jess w. Sweetzer, bringing victory
to New York. to the Siswanoy Golf
club and to Yale. He vanquished
the champion of champions,
Charles Evans, Jr., of Chicago, 8
up and 2 to lay.
Golfing youth triumphed over
golfing age. Evans, "Chick" to
the golfing world. won his first ma
tional title in 1916. Sweetzer, who
says his name Is Jess, not Jesse. is
still in his twenty-first year. With
one exception he is the youngest
champion in the twenty-six years
Of title competition in this country.
With few exceptions he was the
youngest of the lot of 149 golfers,
the most brilliant field ever gath
cred for the event, who set out here
a week ago for the championship.
over the gameness exemplified by
eight official and two unofficial
representatives of Great Britain, its
native heath and as played by
champions ana nearchampions of
the United States and its sections,
many of them veteran links cam
paigners, the play of the youth pre-
vailed. Through stormy days and
sunny days, Sweetzer lasted longest.
The Closing Scene.
The closing scene today was on
the sixteenth green, at the thirty
fourth hole of the match-where
both Sweetzer and Evans had
driven to the green from the tee,
100 yards away. Chicks ball rest
ed eight feet away, Jess was ten
feet distant. The crowd swept down
the fairways, the players were
passed through and Sweetzer took
his putter. while all sound was
stilled. Dormie three. he almost
gave his victory touch of the SEN
sational by rollly seeking for a
birdie two to win in a single stroke.
He missed by inches.N Chick, who
had stalled defeat by : inning the
hole before, tried to stem it again,
also shooting boldly for the cup,
He, too, fell short and the match
ended, not with the dropping of
the ball, but with Evans shaking
the hands of his conquerer, con-
ceding the hole and the match.
The crowd then took the new
champion into its hands and on its
shoulders and he was carried off
the course.
Twists of Luck.
ASIDE from the several stymies
winch the metropolitan expert laid
for the Chicago man. Evans saw at
least two heart-breaking twists of
luck in favor of his opponent, lust
When he appeared to be in a posi-
tion to cut down Sweetzer's lead.
In the afternoon round. when but
two down, Evans played q perfect
second to the twenty-seyenth
green, only to see Jess drop his
from a hard lie. using ribbed
four feet from the cup and
sink birdie three. On the next
mole. the eastcrner got away to a
pad drive, ana lay deep in tho
rough, while Chick was on fifteen
feet from the PIN with II nIblic
second at the end of a 325-
yard hole. 1t looked like a
sure advantage for Evans,
but Sweetzer's mashie second.
after landing in the rough above
and to the left of the green,
trickled down onto the turf and
rolled up to position as good
as that Of Evans. The break ap-
peared to disturb Chick and he
was inches short with his putt.
The best he could. do then was
to halve.
Presents Havemyer CUP.
Immediately after the match
j.. Frederick Byers, president of
the United States Golf associa-
ton, presented the Havemyer
cup. emblematic of the national
amateur championship, to the
new title holder while the crowds
who had trailed the finalists APP
plauded.
The new champion was born
IN Todd county, Kentucky, is six
rect tall and weighs 10 pounds.