Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-09-09
With Houser's
Millionaires
TODAY'S GAME
Star Taxis at Portland, 2.15 p.
M.
CHICK EVANS AND
SWEETSER REMAIN
FOR FINAL SCRAP

The Country Club, Brookline'
Mass, Sept. Soy A. P)-Jesse
Sweetser of New York. Metropolitan
champion, and Charles +. (Chick)
Evans, of Chicago, best of the West,
will meet tomorrow to decide the Ma
tional Amateur golf championship for
1922. They advanced to the final
round of the 26th United States Golf
Association tournament for the title
today in semi final matches that
were marked by their mastery 10th
of the mechanics of play and OF the
human element represented by OPP
ponents of high rank.
Hobby" Jones, of Atlanta, cham
pion of the South. went down seven
holes short of the SO hole distance
before the sweeping and record
breaking strokes of Swectser. The
golfing artistry of Chick" Evans,
which has brought him two national
amateur and one national open titles.
i the championship of France and lead
ership in the West. was eXempl,ficd
anew at the expense of little Rudy
| knepper. his fellow wcsterner from
! Sioux City. This was the greater de-
feat, IL up and to play. but tho
score of s up. to play. by which
Jones fell on his fifth national anna :
| teur championship waNside was the
! days surprise.
! 1t came, however. and no flukc. The
Metropolitan champion. student AT
! Yale and former intercollcg ate
| Oh, 81 hE
worlds leading amateurs. comreti-
| tors, in this tourney when it started,
have played during the past week.
| Brides, even an eagle, pcrChCd on
i his clubs in the forenoon round of
/ IS holes that was finished in 81
! strokes, two under par ana better
| than the competitive record OF 40
set by Jesse Guilford. national
! champion, last Monday. II was the
: fifth course record broken 10y Sweet
! ser this year. He was only little he =
| hind this in the afternoon. Jones
! playing ordinary golf out in the
morning, came back himself two un-
| der par. his southern supporter
lamcnting the fate that had caused
stymies and adhering mud to handi =
cap his efforts to surpass SwCctscr's
super effort. He won only two holes
all day.
! To many who saw Chick" Evans
/ play today the perfection of his
4, strokes recalled the mechanical pre-
cision with which Young Francis
| Ouimet over this same course sui =
dued the British professionals VAR
! don and Ray in 1913. Evans was
| heartless. Where Sweetser gained
/ some of his advantage over Jones by
! shipping mashie niblcks to the cup.
Evans played perfectly to the green
and then perfectly to the cup.
| Sweetser. conquerer of Jesse Gull
| ford. last years champion in a hard
match yesterday was not lenient with
! his opponent today, whose junior he
| is by one month.
| With a morning card of 60. one
| below the competitive record for the
course, the Yale lad proved that his
| advance in the tournament was no
| flash. He allowed Bobby to win only
| two holes of the match. and lie re-
pIlSd " tHc <hlldltft 10Y tllbIts W
match him only by trying harder. His
| approach and his puts were easily
! superior to Jones, except in the sec
F, ond half of the morning round.
Swcetser's record breaking card
was earned, for Jones made no con-
i cessions in the morning round ex-
| cept on one occasion when his ball
| was on the rim of the cup. At the
second hole he showed that he was
at his best when he holed chip
from the edge of the green for an
| eagle two. He called birdie to his
aid in the sixth. when his second
was only three inches from the cup
on oS5 yard hole. The hole became
his when Jones putt struck his ball.
Rumson. \. j.. Sert. S-One Of the
greatest international polo contests
of the season is promised tomorrow
when the Argentine federation four
meets Mcadowbrook. crack American
! quartet, in the final round for the
| United States open championship on
the turf Of the Rumson country club.
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| Donald Keith, b (DeWitO 80 4
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