The New York herald., 1922-09-25
SWEETSER is LIFE
MEMBER OF SIWANOY
Club Amends It's Constitution
to Honor National Golf
Champion.
ny KERR N. PETRIE.

by KERR N. PETRIE.
BY way OF expressing their apprecia-
ton of the high honor conferred upon
their organization by his winning the
national amateur golf championship at
Brookline. Mass, the board of directors
of the Siwanoy Country Club has de-
cided to present to Jess w. Sweetser
an honorary membership for life. At
the testimonial dinner given him at the
clubhouse Saturday night Sweetser was
given his degree in a tentative way.
pending the ratification OF the direc-
tors action at the next annual meet
Ing of the club.
The compliment paid to the champion
Is signal one, for before Sweetser
can be admitted to life honorary mem
bership II will be necessary first to
amend the Siwanoy constitution. Such
an amendment has been prepared and
will be formally ratified within the
next few weeks. As II stands at pres
ent the clubs constitution provides
only for clergymen being admitted to
honorary membership. Evidently the
founders of the we'll known Mount ver-
non organization did not foresee that
within a few short years they would
have national champion In their
midst.
A perhaps still more pleasing part OF
odtuIudy evening Iu0ctlOn was Inc
presentation to Sweetser's mother of
a large and handsome silver photo
graph of the champion. This part of the
ceremonial was reserved for the last.
1t came as great surprise to the en-
tire Sweetser household. every member
of which was present. Mrs. Sweetser
feelingly replied to the speech of pres
entation. thanking the club. It's officers
and members for the high honors cx-
tended both to herself and to her son.
George w. Sweetser father of the
champion, together with Theodore.
Jesss brother, who followed the kid"
OF the family every inch of his win
ming journey over the Brookline links.
sat beside the POSTMASTER. Mr. Miller.
president of the club. Mrs. Sweetser
and her daughter were seated with the
wives of the Siwanoy officials IN an
annex just off the main dining room.
Locks Key In the Safe.
The speakers were winding UP their
eulogies. the jazz band was blowing
the last sobbing chords through the
saxaphone and the clarinet entertainers
were going through their last evolu-
tions and contortions. The cue was
being passed for the surprise of the
evening The trap was about 70 be
sprung on Mrs. Sweetser and family
when a wild eyed. disheveled figure
dashed from the office into the dining
room and passed rapidly among the
diners whispering hoarsely:
Amy of you fellows got Jimmy In
your pocket? How about you. Joe?
How about It. Skinny. Slattery. Men,
des-anybody? Got an acetylene torch
about you-corkscrew, hairpin. any
thing7 Here's a fine mess. Gone and
locked that darned picture up In the
safe and locked the key inside with IL
James r. Taylor, former president OF
Siwanoy, knight commander or the safe,
custodian of the keys and of the Sweet
ser photograph, was In a quandary. Nor
did 1t soothe his feelings in the least
when some one In moment OF aper-
ration remarked: 81 saw some one with
u pair of openers last nightT-Hediey, l
believe, or McCarron."
Hairpins were surreptitiously borrowed
from a number OF fair guests. These
and screw drivers were tried without
avail on the mechanism of the safe.
Chauffeurs rushed In with jacks and
crow bars and monkey wrenches.
hurry call was sent for the twenty-four
stroke handicap men OF the club to
stand by with their niblicks. Blasting
powder and dynamite were called for
and a courier was even being dispatched
to tho headquarters of the safecrackers'
union when some one found a key. in
serted II In the lock, and presto! open
flew the door The night was saved.
Dr. Slnnott attended Mr.. Taylor in an
anteroom and the game proceeded to the
twenty hole.
Pea Soup Makes a Hit.
Flowers OF oratory fell in profusion
ft. inc .fa VA ~ n talented
after dinner speakers, yet 1t is doubtful
IL all the art of story telling or the gems
OF wit and wisdom could have combined
to make half the hit scored when Jess
Sweetser related for the benefit of the
clubmates who had been unable to be
present at Brookline the high lights of
the stirring matches through which he
passed to the championship.
Jess told how every day from tho time
he played Willie Hunter he had gone
back into Boston for lunch rather than
chafe around the scene of action between
rounds planning and worrying. He had
eaten pea soup and a hot roast beef
sandwich for his lunch that day against
the former British champion. and he had
found the charm work so well that he
strictly adhered to that menu for the
balance of the week.
At this point 1t was not difficult TO
tell that Jess had impressed his audi
encc.
"Me for pea soupl" said several voices
together, while around the groaning
tables there ran the sound as OF vast
company gently inhaling.
Sweetser sat down amid a wild sceno
of enthusiasm and time out was taken
to enable Messrs. Schermerhorn. Slat-
terry. Higgins and Hollander to sign up
sx,taata for n eerfea Of trial pea soup ban
auets to be given throughout the winter.
Naxt year Siwanoy hopes to turn out not
only the national champion but also the
four semi-finalists.
Like the pea soup diet the late cham
pionship was discussed from several
angles, and once again the story was
told of how Judge Appel on the final day
ran into the hive of bees in the woods
of Brooklinc and was saved only through
a determined counter attack by his fell
low Siwanoyites.
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