Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-16
nerve PLUS SKILL
WON GOLF TITLES
Sarazen, Sweetser and Glenna
coIIett Have Highly Devel-
oped Competitive Souls
ARE At BEST UNDER FIRE

with the coming of the keen autumn
winds golf is passing out Of the picture.
OF course, the real fanatic will play
until il Is SO cold that his numb fingers
cant grip the SHIFT, or will HE himself
southwark, where the mock oranges
bloom and the mnshc birds sing in the
bunkers oil the winter long.
But golf. so far as tournament play.
Is concerned. will soon be thing Of
the past In this fair but wintry village.
Old idols have fallen this last summer
and new ones are erected on the ashes
Of the past glorics
The big three, Of course. are Jesse
Sweetser. Gene Saranzen and Glenna
Collett. It would not be bad idea to
look these three champions over and see
what it is that makes them great.
Sarazen played wonderful golf at
Skokie. but fortune smiled on him cor
tinually and reserved her blnckcst
frowns for "Grandpa" John Black. The
veteran Californian would have won the
highest honors in professional golf had
a little luck come his way. The gal
lcry kept insisting that he would have
10 beat 2SS to win. and the thought
remained uppermost on his mind.
On the fatal fourteenth he played
safe with an iron and landed I'm n trap.
On the even more fatal fnteful seven
teenth he hooked out Of bounds. and
"hook' is usually something unknown
in Johns vocabulary.
These reminders are not made to dis
parage Genes wonderful victory. But
the thought remains. Would Snrazcn
have won had he needed TO fight the
gallery, too" The little Italian went
around by himself and had little to
worry about.
Sarazen's Skill
Like every champion. Sarazen has no
weakness with any particular club. He
can drive with tn" best of them: his
npproach shots are marv"lS of accuracy.
and his putting leaves little to be de-
sired.
Just as important an asset in his
success is his temperament. Gene is
self confident to the verge of cockiness.
He believes that he is better than his
opponent. and when he is down" he
is; not fustered. He keeps driving
ahead.
His victory at skokc was just n
repetition of what happened numerous
times in the South last winter.
Sweetser. like Sarazen, has every re-
too. he had been building up n reputa-
tion for several years. and was ia
vorite with Il number Of experts. even
though the public ut large was not 50
certain of his quality.
Jesse isn't the longest driver in the
world. but he is exceptionally accurate,
and his iron work has n crispness that
is really remarkable. lie showed that
at 'rookline by laying his approach
shots dead 10 the pin time and again.
The renl test Of his skill in that di-
rpctiOn and his npryp rs we'll como
when he played Chick Evans. Chick is
place his shot within six or eight feet
OF the pin only to see SwcetSer drop
his a foot or two closer.
Swcetser and Sarazen have youth to
their credit. both being of scarcely
voting age.
Miss Collett's Victory
Glenna Collctt. the nineteen year
old Providence girl, is The Jesse Gull
ford of the women golfers. She drives
II territically long ball. and has accuracy
ns we'll.
Most women are rather feeble and
iHckadaisicnl Inc with their iron clubs.
There ts nothing 'roppy''-as Cecn
Lcitch designates that weakness--,u
Glenna. Collects play She is as strong
with the iron a- she is with the wood,
and that Is saying lot.
In the women's championship cam
paign at White sulphur Springs She
heat her way through the greatest field
of golfers ever gathered together. lust
as SWcctscr did with the amateurs Drd
Sarazcn did in the OPEN
Three great champions these. masters
OF technique. with not brittle nerve
in their bodies.