The Washington herald., 1922-09-09

ent golfers in the country.
Jones, who has had his share of more
than brilliant opposition and who stuck
so gamely against such odds. Yet
in golf ther, is no man who is ever
master of hiG destiny. The greatest
can be huntbl-d at any given moment
and the crown Csn hc knocked away
as one SIPS t. l'Grt his pipe. Five
Jones' and three Hagens couldn't have
beaten Sweetser today" one expert
which tells the story of the
Georgian's debacle when the light
nings struck and struck again.
The Hindenberg line was strong
enough for a while. but it must have
looked like tissue paper tn Bobby when
he attempted to hammer his way
through this steel wall of pars and
brides that forever reared itself
across his sorrowful path. 81 had
nothing To match this golf" he said.
Il never had chance"
second Hole prophetic.
prophetic about that second hole
"a llcl ihllA- lpuIh. DUH Hdu
started a trifle slowly, each taking
}. We scampered to the edge of
ne second green as both drove up
rairway. Sweetser had driven
.4O yards up hill. Jones was ten
yards beyond him. Stepping up to
IIs mashIe nibi-ck pitch. the Met
ropolitan champion thumped the
1all l5 feet short of the cup. 40
Yards away. The green was keen.
out the back spin did it's duty and
he ba !, trickling slowly forward,
sOlIed into the cup for an eagle 2.
IwU strokes under par. Jones then
took mis- time. looked over the ter
"A n. and IItChed boldly for the pin.
The ball struck ten feet short, rolled
.Crward and on dead line for the
up, stopping just ten inches short.
fv.o more turns would have broken
al records, a pair Of rs on par 1
I"le that no one can drive.
This was the fourth mashie niblick
EpprUdCh that SwrrtSeT had holed
since the tournament started. You
,all this luck. bit when one Is get
ing his appTua hes as close as the
Yale star has been getting his. some
IRE bound - a,.up. .>s Walter j.
Travis once remarked. The ball is
bUund to stop Some ewhere." and when
t keeps stopping all around the
up. heie and there, L will find the
pottom.
Looked Like Flash.
This squirt looked like A fla n un-
II tney came to the 30S-yard sixth.
Here Jones tapIed his fine approach
% within six feet of the cup as
'" hiS gallery cheeTed. Sweetser.
Who was about the same distance
way, stepped forward. saw where
Jones lay and thea came within a
breath of .hOling another eagle 2.
The bal rolled up to within a few
inches of the cup. rolled few
inches down the slope to the right,
md stopped stone dead for a }.
This was the brand Of golf that
Jones faced. from start to finish
He was down coming TO the
eighth. when he clipped to will hin
fourteen inches of the pm Sweet
ser. who again had only an eight
foot putt for 2 on a hard hole,
missed his putt. but left the ball on
the mp Of the tin. complete barrier
10 an entrance. Jones tried to slice
Ms short putt around the ball, but
'nuIdat get by. He had lost one
mol" TO an eagle. one to a birdie and
one to a stynie. His inward dash
was remarkable golf. but it faiIe.
10 snake off Swcetser'S iron grin
at any turn. On the 52O-yard twelfth
Jones was home in two magnificent
<h"ts for his birdie 4. but here
SWeetSer sank a 25-fonter to get his
half IN one s;rCke under ra He
could do moth ng wrong and he cam-
w 'nln "A turn Of getting another
ca@I" 3 at the 4S0-yard fourteenth
Against ForIorn Hope.
In the afternoon round Jones
Htdrted out against a fOrIOrn hone.
ne was five down and he lost the
hFst mole. But he came back with
hne at the second. This was
the second hole he had won all day,
ana II was the last he was to win.
AFTER that no channel was open.
H"eetser went hammering his way
/" the pin. went out in 35, and then
at the 325-yard tenth. over bu,.
mounds. dropped his approach to
within two feet of the cup. Jones
for the first time in his life. one Of
the greatest golfers that ever lived
had won just two holes out of tho
twenty-nine played At the long
eleventh. Sweetser's putt for a
again hit the cup. but failed to
stick He had played twenty-nine
holes in il2 strokes. where par was
116
All this while Chick Evans was
racing along at a speed almost as
fast. Chick went out in 35. against
knepper's 36. Coming home, Chick
started below par. but slipped at the
long fourteenth. where he eased up
after Rudy had driven out of
bounds. He might have had his 4
here after fine drive. but became
careless and took s as Knepper
couldn't beat T.
Except for this easy going mis-
take. Evans would have broke the
course record with another 60. As
il was. the Chicago veteran never
looked better. He knew nothing
but the middle of the fairway and
his approaches continued to flop
around the pin. Considering the
fact that he holed no approaches
and no long puts mis- round was
fully as remarkable as Sweetse, s,
full proof of the fact that he was at
the top of his greatest game. Chick
has shortened his back swing by
six or eight inches. even from the
abbreviated swing ne had last year
But he has it under magnificent