San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-09
Evans, Jones and Ouimet
1, Labelled Leading Con-
tenders.
EVANS TO BE AT HOME
Will Be Played in Native
Section-Jones Is :.
Dangerous. NJ
BY ROBERT EDGREN

Jesse Swwetser of New York is the
defending champion this year when
Americas amateur golfers meet in
the amateur championship at Floss
moor Country Club, Chicago, Septem-
Der 1915.
Jesse is going to have his hands
full.
There is Bobby Jones, among 9th
ers, fresh from winning the Open.
Last year at Brookline Jesse went
wild and outclassed jess Guilford
1921 title-holder. Bobby Jones and
Chick Evans in the finals.
But it is harder to keep a title
than to win one, as Sarazan found
out this year-Sarazan and many 9th
ers who have flashed and faded in
their turn.
Sweetser's form this season hasn't
been impressive. His interest has been
more with his studies than with golf
The two chief favoritie" at Floss
moor will be Chick Evans and Bobby
Jones. Chick seems to be invincible
when playing in his own part of the
country. A short time ago he won
the Western for the eighth trip. No
other American golfer ever equalled
that for a golf record.
Will Be Playing at Home.
Evans always plays his best game
on western courses, and especially il
Chicago, his home town, where he
learned golf and where he has the
backing Of thousands of friends who
thing he is unbeatable. The home
galleries give their favorite plenty
of encouragement.
One of Chicks biggest achievements
is a clean slate in al his match play
meetings with Bobby Jones. The two
stars have been drawn together on
many occasions, but Jones, for all his
marvellous playing, never has defeaud
Evans. s.
1t is almost a certainty that Jones
and Evans will meet at Glossmoor
and when they do it will be the most
sensational match ever. played on an
American course. 1t will be the fea-
ture of the championship meet. Ii
will draw the greatest gallery that
ever followed a golf contest on an
American course. II they meet in the
finals, the governor will have to call
out the militia to clear playing room
on the course.
Beside being an expe fenced veteran,
Chick Evans is one of tie most consis'
tent of all golfers. IL 1916 he won
both the national titles. No other
player ever performed that feat in
the same playing seasoI..
Jones' Famous HOOdO0.
Bobby Jones, with the confidence he
gained when he smashed the old cham
pionship hoodoo and won the open
crown at Inwood. will be more formi.
dable than ever before. He is eager
to win the amateur title. In fact, he
sent in his entry Immediately after
winning the open, as soon as he reach
ed his Atlanta home. H:s entry was
the first received by tie officials.
For two or three years it has been
said that Bobby Jones was followed
by a jinx whenever he went into one
Of the big championships. No mat
ter what wonderful gok he played, he
was nipped by the astonishing squirt
of some rival. Players not conceded
a chance with Jones shot far under
par and broke course records when
they went up against Bobby. ,
Jones was playing against Sweetser
. in the semi-finals at Brookline last
year, when Jesse holed out hundred
yard mashie pitch and broke the course
record in the same round.
The season before that, playing at
st. Louis, Jones shot two under par,
and had the hard luck TO lose out
to Willie Hunter of England, who
player the greatest game of his life.
Hunter was easily eliminated the
next day when he shot a poorer score
by ten strokes.
Ouimet Put Him Out.
In 1920, at the Engineers Club on
Long Island, Jones met Ouimet, who
had been away off his game, in the
semi-finals. Ouimet player miraculous
golf and cleaned up, putting Bobby
out. although Jones sho. well enough
TO win under ordinary circumstances.
Next day Ouimet was beaten by Chick
Evans.
Then away back in 1919 Jones lost
a fine chance to overtake Dave Heron
in the finals when the negaphone man
doomed out a warning TO the gallery
just as Bobby was abops 10 nit bras
sic. with the result that the shot was
badly sliced into a sand trap.
Bobby Jones' father is an enthusias-
tic athlete and golfer himself. He
pitched baseball during his college
days at Georgia Tech, ana after col
lege took up golf. He gave Bobby AL
early start in the game and when
Bobby became a crack golfers always
accompanied him to championship
meets.
1t is hardly fair to think that the
elder Jones had anything to do with
Bobby's losing so many close
chances TO win the big titles, for
Bobby's scoring never fell down. II
was always the other fellows aston
ishing squirt that won.
Mr.. Jones has an idea that his boy
was handicapped by having so much
written and said about his chance to
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