The New York herald., 1922-09-24
G. |. CONLEY TAKES
VICTORY GOLF CUP
Defeats John G.. Anderson in
Final After Eliminating
Jess Sweetser.
WINS BOTH GAMES 2 AND /
Former Wcstchester Champion
Causes Double Upset at
Grassy Sprain.
BY KERR N. PETRIE.

The Victory golf cup found it's way
back to the Siwanoy Country Club last
evening in time for the dinner given
in celebration of the winning Of the
national amateur championship at
Brookline, Mass, by Jess Sweetser.
The trophy, however. did not come
either as the personal property or as
part OF the seasons winnings of the
Big Chief of the Links. Jess, with two
legs on for his successes in 1920 and
1921 would have taken the cup out of
competition had he been able to win
yesterday at Grassy Sprain, but the
cold fact of the matter is that Jess did
not win. He went down in the semi
final round before his clubmate, G. L.
Conley.
And the latter deciding that he had
begun his day well enough to warrant
his making a double header of it pro-
ceeded in the afternoon to do some more
decapitating and to move on from a
2 and / victory over Sweetser to a
similar success over John G. Anderson
in the final round
When the Victory cup appeared at
the festive board last night 1t therefore
came as part OF the equipment OF
Siwanoy, but not of Sweetser Jess sat
behind the metropolitan and national
championship emblems and had to let 1t
go at that. BY another year he prob
ably will have the Victory cup but 1t
was rather oGd that this trophy should
have been denied him in this his great
est year on the links while ne nas been
able to win it the last two years.
Takes Extra Puts.
After lrfs remarkable career as the
national champion IL is perhaps but
natural that there should have been a
let down in the play OF Swectser. From
the qualifying round 1t has been noted
that the national champion did not have
his game working at the concert pitch.
Yesterday again Sweetser was skidding
quite a bit. That deadly precision
which sent the ball to the bottom Of
the cup from all distances at Brookline
was strangely lacking. On the first
green against Conley the champion had
an extra putt and that initial mistake
appeared to spoil his confidence. At the
second Jess hooked his second to the
woods. and at the fourth he became .
down through driving into the brook.
The fifth went to Sweetser. but on the
next green he again took three puts.
Conley, on the green of the seventh.
made the mistake which had been
proving so expensive for Sweetser. The
rational champion won this one and
then at the ninth he brought his
opponent back to one hole. Three holes
To-. ~
advantage of his opponents mistake in
driving into the creek. but Jess lost
his hold again and away went the
next two.
Champion Never I'm Lead.
SO far Sweetser had not been able to
take the lead. High hopes of tits had
been held out when he squared. but the
prospects of a success for the national
champion began TO grow dim indeed
when he dropped the thirteenth and
fourteenth. At the fifteenth Sweetser
managed 10 win back a hole. Conly IS
ball hung on the lp. However with his
second Sweets r was over the green OF
the sixteenth. This left Corley dormie :
and the match came to finish with \
mutual at the seventeenth. The cards
coNLEY--
out.............. 5-4i
SwEETSER-
out............. 6 3 ) ) . ) 4-4o
CONLEY-
In............... 5 IS q
SWEETSER-
Tn................. >
With Sweetser out of the way Conley
turned his attention to Anderson. This
was a most remarkable match. As one
spectator remarked. Both ought to have
won by 10 up" IL was a contest about
IT, keeping with the final Of the Garden
City invitation tournament. in which
Robert Lyme OF Pittsburgh defeated Don
NJ Parker of Garden City Lyme
Parker, Conley and Anderson will have
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