Evening star., 1922-09-10

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outdrive Evans. and he did. 1t was
thought he would be of on his ap-
proaches and that Evans would beat
him at this, the department OF play in
which Chick is acknowledged the best
in the world. But he did not Instead,
Sweetser was usually straight ahead.
and it was Chick who was oftenest in
| the rough, who was trapped or bunk
cred trying to get to the greens and
! who, once on, fell short or overran In
putting for the hole.
| In every match in which he advanced
| in this tournament-his defeat of H. E.
Hunter former British amateur cham
pon; of Jesse P. Guilford, the champion
| whom he set back to succeed today; OF
! Bobby Jones, who, youthful star though
he is, is still Sweetser's elder by
month, and of Chick" Evans, a veteran
able to avoid such situations most of
| the time-Sweetser set up stymfes to
| impede his adversary. This is the first
year of the stymies restoration and.
without having been the cause, it was
still factor in the making Of the
| champion Of this year.
| In his victory today he reversed the
result Of his previous meeting with
Evans. when he was defeated 1 up in
the third round of the national tour
nament at ST. Louis last year.
Ends ON the 34th Hole.
The closing scene today was on the
sixteenth green. at the thirty-fourth
hole of the match. where both Sweet
ser and Evans had driven to the green
from the tee 13O yards away. Chicks
ten feet distant. The crowd swept
down the fairways, the players were
i passed through and Sweetser took
his putter while all sound was st1lled.
Dormie 8. as almost gave his victory
a touch Of the sensational by boldly
seeking for birdie 2 to win in
single stroke. He missed by inches.
! Chick who had stalled defeat by win
ming the hole before, tried to stem 1t
again, also shooting boldly for the
cup. He, too, fell short, and the match
ended, not with the dropping Of
ball, but with Evans shaking the hand
of his conqueror, conceding the hole
and the match. The crowd then took
the new champion into its hands and
on it's shoulders, and he was carried
off the course.
Sweetser's victory was well and
fairly earned He both outplayed and
| outgamed his battle Scared opponent.
Three up at the close of the morning
| round, the Yale undergraduate never
dropped but one below that leading
margin. and at times was four up on
the veteran, who was thus forced to
| fight from behind. Each hole won or
| halved by Jess saw another chance to
overtake slip away from Chick, and
| after the twenty-seventh noie was
! passed, with Sweetser still three to
| the good, the westerner realized that
| nothing but marvellous break could
bring him victory.
Luck Ii Against Evans.
| Aside from the several stymies
which the metropolitan expert laid for
| the Chicago star, Evans saw at least
two heart breaking twists OF luck IN
| favor of his opponent, just when he
appeared to be in a position to cut
down Sweetser's lead. In the after
noon round. when but two DOWN, s
| Evans played perfect second to the
twenty-seventh green, only to see Jess
drop his from a hard lay, using rib
bed mashie four feet from the cup,
and sink a birdie 3. On the next hole
the easterner got away a bad drive
and lay deep IN tne Ioueh whhS SuiS
was on, fifteen feet from the pin with
| a niblick second at the end of a 32b-
yard hole.
! II looked like a sure advantage for
Evans, but Sweetser's mashie second
| after landing in the rough above and
to the left of the green trickled down
onto the velvet turf and rolled up to
a nosition as good as that of Evans.
| The break appeared to disturb Chick,
and he was inches short with his putt.
The best he could do then was to
halye. These two breaks might be
! said to mark the turning point In the
| Neither player held entirely to the
| form he had shown in the earlier