The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-23

 three in par and increased it to his maximum advantage of the day on the sixth, where he won with a five after getting stymied by a tree be- cause Marston was too close to the boundary fence to shoot, dropped the advantage on the next two when his opponent first laid him a stymie on the seventh and then holed a long putt for birdie on the eighth. Jess recovered his two hole advantage by winning the ninth and the thirteenth with a par four and a birdie two and after dropping the fourteenth where Marston again holed a long putt for holes. After the sixteenth and again at the end of the morning round, having dropped the seventeenth.
 The incoming champion playing par 36 on the first half of the af. ternoon round quickly squared the contest by winning the nineteenth and twentieth with pars when Sweet ser's irons would not perform and he squared 1t again with a pSr four on the twenty third where Sweetser dubbed his drive after dropping the long twenty first to Sweetser's birdie four Marston took the lead for the first time when he got birdie two in short water hole and quickly in- creased the advantage to two up with par four on the twenty sixth when Sweetser popped his approach shot half way up.
 onlookers began to whisper the opinion that Sweetser had cracked. that he was all in, that he looked tired. and that Marston who never before in his long golfing career, had reached the finals, had the game won. In fact what advantages Sweetser gained thereafter to keep the match one up, one. down, or square, were fn ell hxrA was tired but for reasos unknown to the gallery. His face looked drawn and white, and, usually imperturb- able. he seemed fidgety. Marston handed him the twenty eighth hole by getting into trouble and the short twenty ninth to square the match by falling short in a trap whence he required two shots to extricate him. self and complained of the gallery Marston again slipped on the thir- tieth hole where he pushed his tee shot into trap. but he recovered well enough to get a par while Sweetser flubbed his short approach and barely halved. Sweetser again flubbed his approach on the thirty second and was one down but show Ing his previous game for two holes Which he made in par four while Marston was wild, topping his tee on the thirty-third and slicing to the rough on the thirty-fourth, the de- render set the gallery wild by get tlng a lead of one up and only two to go.
 In fact the Yale student had every right to expect a half on the penul- innate hole until Marston laid him the first of three stymies. From there on to the finish Sweetser never Lad chance, his valiant efforts in circumventing Marston's stymie on the eighteenth merely prolonged his ultimate downfall for he was weak from the first extra hole and finally succumbed on the second.
 President J. Frederic Byers of the United States Golf association pre- sented Marston with the Havemeyer cup shortly after the thrilling match was ended and complimented Sweet ser on the strong fight he had put up. A.
 Francis Ouimet of Boston, whom Marston eliminated yesterday in the semi-finals, and Bob Gardner of Chi cago, who was put by Sweetser In the same round, also were present at the presentation. Marston, thanking MT. Byers for the cup, com plimented the gallery on it's conduct, although during the play at times he had found fault with the action of the spectators.
 sweetser in accepting the runner up medal. said:
 
 door of the championship for years. I. for one, am glad he won it. I just happened to squeeze through last year and feel fortunate to have gone as far as l did this time."
 President Byers said that the Flossmoor course was the only one in the country that he knew of on which the approach called for brassie second on at least 8 holes. as golf balls today were too lively for nearly all golf links and that an effort would be made during the coming year to limit the long carry ing quality of golf balls in order to avoid the rebuilding of courses to make them of championship calibre.
 Sweetsers defeat today on account of stymies, recalled the fact that last year when he won the title at Brookline he was aided materially by the same obstacles. In his match with Guilford he laid the Boston siege gun nearly a dozen stymies and also laid four for Bobby Jones and two for Chick Evans, when he de- feated the latter in the finals.