Evening star., 1923-09-23

stretch.
The retiring champion made a good
struggle during most of the final nine,
squaring the match at the twenty
ninth, and even getting 1 up at the
thirty-fourth. but then the combina-
tion of unbeatable golf and stymies,
added to slips on the part of Sweet
ser. allowed Marston to win.
AT the thirty-fifth both were a
trifie short in :. and Sweetser, run
ming up short, found himself not only
playing into the low afternoon sun.
but against the almost impossible
Stymie that Marston laid him close
10 the hole. Jess studied the situa-
tion for fully two minutes while the
enormous gallery stood motionless
around the large green.
Swcetxer Weak From Illness.
Weakened from lack of food. not
having eaten luncheon because of an
attack of indigestion. Sweetser final
~ essayed to putt, but the English
he gave the ball was not sufficient to
putt it into the hole and the match
was squared.
Again at the thirty sixth, after
Marston had run his third shot over
the cup. Sweetser ran two feet be-
yond him and stymied himself, but to
the laundering applause curved the
ball into the cup for birdie 4.
Sweetser outdrove Marston on the
first extra hole. and tried to carry
the sand trap in front of the flag on
the 51s-yar& hole. He fell in the
pit and pitched out far short of the
cup, but managed to halve in par,
Marston having put his second into
the rough.
The finish came on the second extra
hole, when Sweetser, after heeling his
iron tee shot TO the short rough, ran
up to within eight feet of the cup
only to have Marston'S first putt stop
four inches from the cup and directly
on the line of his ball. The New
Yorker tried the impossible. but his
ball slipped by the hole and he was
no longer champion.
Longest Championship FinnI.
Never before had the final round oi
the national championship gone sc
far, the longest previous match be.
ing thirty-Sev holes in 1911, wher
Harold Hilton of England defeated
Fred Herrishoff of New York. II
was, however, the second thirty
eight-hole match which Sweetser had
lost this year, as he was defeated BY
Chick Evans at Mayfield on the sec
ond extra hole in the semi-finals OF
the western amateur championship
which Evans later won.
In addition to the three stymies
which Sweetser faced on the last -four
holes. Marston laid one on the
seventh hole of the morning round
Marston did NOT have to negotiate
any stymies on the green and he
putted we'll all the way, but he was
stymied on the thirty-third hole by
tree when he hooked his drive and
ii was there that Sweetser squared
the match for the last time.
Marston also got tangled up with
a fence on the sixth hole and took a
z. and in addition to the he took
on the thirty-third he had won on
IN Of ~
almost unplayab BILE lie. SWeetser ac-
cumuiated six strokes on the seven
teenth hole, by slicing to trap and
on the nineteenth hole for the same
reason Outside of these holes,
neither player went above at any
place and Marston shot five brides
oTt of the thirty eight holes played,
Yhile Sweetser got three.
Sweetser Got Early Lend.
Sweetser got a lead at the fourth
hole and increased it on the sixth.
He dropped the advantage on the
next two holes when his opponent
first laid him stymie on the seventh
and then holed a long putt for a
birdie on the eighth. Jess recovered
his two-hole advantage by winning
the ninth and thirteenth with a par
4'and a birdie 2. and after dropping
the fourteenth, where Marston again
holed long putt for a birdie 3, he
again led by two holes after the
sixteenth and again at the end of
the morning round, having dropped
the seventeenth.
The incoming champion. playing
par SO on the first half of the after
noon round, squared the contest by
winning the nineteenth and twentieth
with pars, when SWeetser's irons
would not perform. After dropping
the twenty-frst to Sweetser's birdie
4. he squared it again with a par 4
on the twentythird. where SweetseI
dubbed his drive. Marston took the
lead for the first time when he got
a birdie on the short water hole
and increased the advantage to up
with a par 4 on the twenty-sixth