The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-23
Both Golfers Play Steady Game In Great Match To Close Out Tournament Of Wonder Golf

FLOSSMOoR, Sept. 22-Setting a record for long matches the national amateur golf championship, Max Marston of Philadelphia today won the title from Jess Sweetser of New York, defending champion, on the thirty eighth hole, steady golf and three stymies which he laid the for mer champion on the last four holes gave him the victory.
 NSweetser did not maintain the fast pace he had led previously. al though he was steady and scored 75 this morning, he slipped four strokes every par on the third nine up at the twenty-sixth hole, after he had kept the Philadelphian down or square for 24 holes. ! During the third nine Sweetser dubed one drive, was not very good on couple of others, popped short with two mashies and shanked a couple in addition to missing some good butts and was two up at the end of the morning round, he was two down in turning into the stretch.
 The rece6ing champion made good struggle during most of the final nine, squaring the match at one up at the thirty-fourth, but then the combination of unbeatable golf and stymies. added to slips on the part of SweeIser, allowed Marston to win.
 At the thirty-fifth both were a trifle short in two and Sweetsef running up short found himself not only playing into the low afternoon sun, but against the almost impos- sible stymie that Marston laid him close to the hole. Jess studied the situation motionless for fully two minutes while the enormous gallery stood like statues. dozens deep, around the large green.
 Weakened from lack of food, not having eaten luncheon because of an attack of indigestion, Sweetser fin. ally assayed to putt, but the English he gave the ball was not sufficient to putt into the hole and the match was squared.
 Again at the thirty sixth hole after Marston had run his third shot over the hole, Sweetser ran two feet be- yond him and stymied himself but the laundering applause curved the ball into the cup for a par four.
 Sweeter outdrove Marston on the first extra hole and tried to carry the deep sand trap directly in front of the flag on the 51S-yard hole. He fell short in the pit and pitched out short of the cup but managed to halye In par, Marston having put his second into the rough
 The finish came on the second ex- tra hole. when sweetser, after heel ing his iron tee shot to the short rough at the near righthand corner of the green, ran up to within eight feet of the cup, only to have Mar stons first putt stop four inches from the cup and directly on the line the impossible, but his ball slipped by the hole and he was no longer champion.
 National championship. the longest previous match was 37 holes in 1911, when Harold Hilton of England de- feated Herishoff of New York. It was the second 3S-hole match which Sweetser had lost this year; he was defeated by Chick Evans at May field in the semi-finals of the west ern amateur championship, which Evans won the next day.
 which Sweetser faced on the last four holes, Marston laid one on the seventh hole of the morning round and Sweetser lost that hole. 126 yards, four to three. Marston did not have to negotiate and stymles on the green and he putted well all the way. but he was stymied on the thirty third hole by tree when he hooked his drive and it was there that Sweetser squared the match Tor the last time, Marston also got tangled up with a fence on the sixth hole of the morning round and took a seven and in addition to the six he took on the thirty-third he had one on the twenty-eighth on account of an almost rnplayable lie, in some chocolate drop bunkers. Sweetser accumulated six strokes on the six teenth and nineteenth holes. Out side of those two holes, neither play CT went above five at either place and Marston shot five birdies out of 3S holes played while, Sweetser got only three.
 Not only was the golf good throughout for the final round. but the contestants were so evenly matched that it was anybody's vic- tory nearly all the way.
 Sweetser got 8 lead of one up at the fourth hole after halving the first