Evening star., 1923-09-20

Shute. that astounding kid from
huntington, w. Va, is playing Bob
hardner of Chicago, twice champion.
while Joe Wells of Ohio stacks up
against Max Marston of Philadelphia,
conqueror of Bobby Jones yesterday
IN match which for thrills and
grand golf seldom has been equaled
IN any amateur tilt.
The Guilford -Sweetser match is a
meeting of two .cocky golfers
Sweetser, nervous, confident and at
the crest of his magnificent game
Just as he was at BrookIine last year:
Guilford, Glum. dour, fmperturbable
ana dry Yankee, Sanguine that he
VIII get revenge for his whipping at
Boston in 1922. He thinks so with
every bit OF confidence he has for big
Jesse IS hitting the ball wonderfully
and viii force Sweetser to the limit
today The men are of two entirely
opposite types-Sweetser the finely
framed athlete. nervous and on edge
after hve days of stiff competition;
iuIford the nerVelesS, heady swatter
whose tremendous tee shots are only
matched by the finesse of his short
same. Truly a meeting of the mighty
ana one that will be decided on the
putting greens, for both men are at
the peak of their games.
Gardner Should Defeat shute.
Bob Gardner. should defeat young
Shute, but anything can happen here
and If Bob is little off the kid will
very likely come through with a vic
tory for he is a splendid golfer and
taxes odds from no man in the field
considering his defeat of Bob Jones'
tne open champion, yesterday, Max
Marston should win from Joe Wells
put Wells has been below rs con-
slstently around Flossmoor and will
give MarSton scrap
George Won Elm holed a mashie
Shot for a 2 on the par eighth hole
yesterday, the outstanding shot in a
day of surprises that witnessed the
defeat of Bob Jones of Atlanta and
willie Hunter of California, who on
Tuesday put out Chick Evans, Chi
cagoS mainStay in this champion shin
Once again Bob Jones ran up against
unbeatable golf. and succumbed to
the par-shattering string of As and 3s
by Max Marston. Bob has the rough
est luck of any championship com
petltor who ever played for the title
BOD shoots remarkably fine golf and
then some gent comes through with
blackjack and socks him back of
the ear when he least expected II
Bob shot thirty-five holes yesterday
in / under par and lost to Marston
by and !. The veteran Philadel-
phlan had the same thirty-five holes
in under par.
His friends think if Bob Jones is
ever to win the amateur champion
ship he will have to go into action
with pair of brass knucks and
rabbit foot Certainly it does seem as
toughest eggs in the world in these
amateur tilts. He shot a fiat 10 in
the morning, and was only uD on
Marston's 73. In the afternoon Mars
ton was out in "a, and was 2 up on
Bobs 40-bad golf for the open cham
pion, but still far better match-p play
golf than it seems. This gent Mars
ton was worried by the "F'lossmoor
mosquitoes" but they only seemed to
make him more tenacious. The gall
lerieS also bothered him a bit but
still he rammed the ball against the
back of the tin, and by the time he
reached the tenth hole he had Bobby
struggling to catch him.
Max was 2 down at luncheon. but
he picked up the second hole in the
afternoon, and was still ! down at
the end of the fifth. 1t looked as if
Bob would have close match but
would still win But here the tall
gent from the Quaker city took the
bit in his teeth and reeled off three
brides in row-a ,. 2, 3-on holes
that are a stroke higher, according
TO the par, and won all three from the
southern youngster. Within twenty
minutes the situation was reversed.
Here was the open champion coming
to the sixth hole 1 up. And here he
went to the ninth 2 down, after a
string of golf seldom equaled in any
championship. And Bob took it like
man, even though Marston's puts
dropped with the precision of a
putts curled away from the edge of
the cup like the lips of a Boston
bulldog.
Still Bobby struggled for a hold
on the amateur championship that
should have been his years ago. He
struggled through the thirteenth still
down, and finally got back hole
at the fourteenth. where he laid
Marston a dead stymie, which the tall
Philadephian failed to negotiate with
niblick. But Bobby hooked his tee
shot into the rough at the fifteenth
and pitched to the right of the green,
while Marston got home in 2. Bob
+ got brainstorm and Clipped fifteen
feet beyond the hole, losing to Mar
ston's birdie to become down
again: They halved the sixteenth in
As, where Bob Tipped seven -footer
to win, and Marston brought the
match to an end on the seventeenth,
sinking a six footer for a birdie
on this 461-yard affair. Bob took his
but it does seem as If Bob might
go through one championship with
out some golfer going crazy against
him.
MarstOn EmuIates Sweetser.
Sweetser broke the course record
against him last year at Brookline
and here yesterday Marston shot
thirty-five holes in l under as over
the toughest kind of going. Bob
hasn't won his amateur title. but they
can't deny him forever. Some day
he will go through without some op
ponent rising to dizzy heights and
shooting far over his head. Max
Marston is a fine golfer, without
question, but it is doubtful If he ever
shot golf of the brand he played yes
terday against Jones. Marston is
colorless and testy, where Jones is
full of fire and spirit. The Phila-
delphian was worried by the gal
lery, while Jones never knew, appar-
emily, that any one else was within
miles. But MarSton's round-house
swing was poking the ball down the
middle, while Bobby's flawless style
sometimes allowed a bit of a hook to
creep in, and that was his downfall.
The finest golfer in the tournament
has been removed The boys in the
press tent think the world of Bobby
Jones and again are sorry he lost.
That's their long suit, being sorry
for the losers, but they have soft
spot in their heart for Bobby, whom
husky kid at Merton.
Marston is going to be the person
in charge of festivities at Merton next
year, where the amateur probably
will go.
Francis Ouimet of Boston broke the
iron heart of that king of short-game
players. Willie Hunter of California,
with his accurate pitching and deadly
putting. Two down beginning the
afternoon round, Francis outdroye,
outputted and outgamed the nervy
cx-British champion. who cracked
definitely at the eighth hole OF the
afternoon round when he was / up.
Fer three days Willie has been
the solidity and nonchalance of Ted
shooting the game Of q master--with