The Washington herald., 1922-09-08

Of the invading Britons had checked
his mace for good and all, leav-
ing the field to the South. West
and East In one Of the greatest
Intersectional climaxes golf has
e-er known.
Nerves on Edge
While all this was taking place,
Bobby Jones again found himself
with both hands and a pair OF
arms, full Of trouble.
In any golf championship Thurs
day Is always the day when nerves
reach their rawest stage and the
pulse begins to jump sidewise. 1t
Is combination OF the physical and
mental strain, the long, hard grind
under heavy pressure. Even the
usually serene and stoical Gull
ford showed the effects by his
poor putting and by a bad break
down in his short game play.
The same strain hit Jones after two
hard matches against Beadal and
Gardner. The young Georgian was
playing well enough up to the green.
but when il come to getting an ap-
pro .ch stone dead or holeing the g.
IOOltTS, ne IOuHO MS Olu lOuCn was
completely lost. He took 3 puts on
seversl green's where McPhail, who
has been one OF the sensations OF The
tournament. was putting extremely
veil, tc put IL gently As a result OF
square at the end OF IS holes and only
l up at the twenty-seventh. The big
turn came at the long eleventh and
ahnrf fUalffh yrh he nj
from within IL feet. At the short
twelfth McPhail tipped the cup from
40 feet away for his 2, when Bobby
turned the tide by sinking his from
20 feet. Before his iouble assault
McPhail finally broke down after one
of the hardest battles Of the day His
next two shots were both struck far
on line ana Jones Immediately closed
out the engagement to rest up for his
coming contest against Sweetscr. one
of the big features of tomorrow's play.
Evans Plays STEADY Game.
Young Frank Godchaux, another
2O-year-old star from New Orleans
and Vanderbilt finished 4 down to
Chick Evans in the forenoon. But
the southern star refused to weaken
against the old master. who is now
almost "a years old We still fail to
understand how anyone at this ad-
vanced and gray-whiskered age Is
still hanging around this champion.
ship, but Chick had been doing
something more than hanging
around-he had been playing close
to the best golf of the entire lot.
Is sure. as steady and as relentless
in his pressure as il he were only Is
or 20.
Godchaux gave Evans an even bat
tie In she afternoon, cutting a lead
Of Z holes to before he finally
gave way before crater expert
eEce ana finer work around the
greens.
The Guilford-Sweetser contest
was full of stirring features. Both
began raggedly around the greens.
There was a gasp of astonishment
when GuilfOrd missed a 2-footer on
the second and became / down. On
the third Sweetser took 3 puts
from twelve feet. a half stymie
crowding hSn off lh1e. Things moved
a long in a humdrum fashion to the
sixteenth. Here Guilford was 2 ND
and resting easy. Neither had shown
a flash Of championship form until.
without warning, Sweetser seemed
10 make up his mind that IL was
about time to cast the grenade. He
canned on the sixteenth, slipped
In a on the seventeenth for an
other win and then took the lead by
great 3 on the hard eighteenth
atter a hne drive, a firmly played
approach and a 20-foot putt.
Guilford Below Form.
When Sweetser took the lead.
after trailing, Guilford could feel
the old crown rocking on his head.
He must have felt the fastening.
were no longer firmly held. But
the big crash came at the third
hole in the afternoon where the tall
New Yorker. the first in years since
the days of the immortal Trayers
to reach the semi-finals. started an
other winning rally. Sweetser won
holes in row with Guilford still
wavering and far below his normal
form.
The big blow came at the NTH