The New York herald., 1922-09-20
SIWANOY TO HONOR
CHAMPION OF LINKS
Westchester Club Preparing to
Celebrate Jess Swectser's
Victory at Brookline.
BY KERR n. PETRIE.

There has been a good deal of specu-
lation as to what in addition to a bar
rage of speeches the members of the
Siwanoy Country Club are to present
to Jess Sweetser at the testimonial din
ner arranged for next Saturday night as
formal welcome home to the new
national amateur champion.
AS a mark of appreciation when he
won the metropolitan title, Sweetser
received from his proud fellow members
a brand new spic and span automobile.
In moment of exultation some one has
suggested that this time Jess probably
will be the recipient of a steam yacht
or even a battleship, the same to be
carried into the dining room on the
shoulders of those hardy sons of Silva
noy who caught the two o'clock train
en- route for Boston, sat up all night dis
cussing The chances of their fellow men,
Der in the final with Chick Evans and
ther the following night sat up all the
way back to New York fearful that IL
they went to bed they might wake up
anG find that 1t had all been a wonder
fui dream.
The parade. il is understood. Is to
fern at the club entrance and to march
shouldering mashies by columns of four
to the home green. where Judge Appel
Will hold a review and present Sweetser
as sendoff to the evening with the
straw hat which he. the Judge. ruined
in his battle with the bees in the woods
just off the twelfth green during tho
afternoon round OF the national final
The hat, of course, will be suitably
mounted and engraved.
James r. Taylor and other members
o. the rescuing part. will tell the as
sembled throng how In one afternoon a
national golf championship was won for
Siwanoy and the life of an eminent jur-
list was saved. At this juncture 1t is
expected that Joe Higgins will sing.
John G. Anderson next will be called
upon to recount how he almost spoiled
the final by putting Chick Evans out OF
the championship with a string of
twenty foot gobbes. The party will
tren be photographed by Al Hedley and
marched into the clubhouse.
May Have victory Cup.
There is strong proba bility that in
addition to the national amateur cham
and other trophies gathered on the bat
tlefeld of Brooklne there also will be
seen reposing on the banquet table the
victory cup. The tournament for this
trophy begins tomorrow at Grassy
Sprain and the feeling Is that by Satur-
day evening it viii be in the keeping
OF Jess William 3weetser OF Siwanoy
national amateur golf champion. for
good
Jess already has two legs on the tro-
ply. and in this year 4 grace ii does
not seem conceivable that anyone will
have the audacity to say him nay. In
any event IL Jess shows anything re-
motely approaching the form which he
disclosed at Brookline two weeks ago
there Is no golfer now lurking among
the metropolitan bunkers who can even
darken his path.
And IL Is quite possible that the din
ner on Saturday will be slightly prema-
ture 1t may be recalled that between
the qualifying rounds at Brookline
Sweetser and Anderson for Siwanoy
tied for the American Golfer trophy
with the Upper Montclair representa-
tives. William Reekie and Frank Dyer.
That play-off Is stili hangine fire.
BY another week II might be possible
to have a dinner at Siwanoy with such
trophies In possession as the national
amateur championship cup, the metro.
politan championship cup. the victory
cup and the American Golfer silver club.
Siwanoy then well might have a jubilee.
The club hangs upon the verge of sill
yer avalanche. Virtually all OF the glory
Is attributable to the brlliance OF the
aforementioned Jess William Sweetser.