Evening star., 1923-09-21

Sweetser's game is at it's peak, he
proved yesterday by defeating Jesse
GulIford of Boston, the Siege gun.
whose batteries were spiked in the
afternoon by inaccuracy on his tee
shots and the uncertainty of his putt
hg-usually the successful compile
ment to a game chiefly made up of
tremendous .slugging from the tee
The other Boston entry came
through with heart t-breaking vic
tory over George Won Elm, the Salt
Lake City battler, no succumbed to
Francis Ouimet on the seventeenth
after the exit of Ouimet from the
tournament seemed certain.
The other two matches on the third
day were one-sided, Bob Gardner
winning as he pleased by and from
Densmore Shute of West Virginia,
+. while Max Marston, although he
started badly IN the morning, came
through in the afternoon with
and victory over Joe Wells of East
Liverpool. Ohio.
Yesterdays Matches Epics.
The Guilford-Sweetser and Ouimet-
Won Elm matches yesterday, were
goifng epics of the type that have
made this championship probably the
most sensational in point of fine golf
and close matches than any other.
Both matches were won on the seven
teenth green, the 35th of the contest
and both were won by the men who
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five-foot putts-the kind that win ana
lose championships. Guilford con-
tributed to his defeat by lack OF
accuracy from the tee, but the verdict
was really reached on the putllns
green. where the siege guns puts
wouldn't drop with the certainty they
raped against the bottom of the tin
on the two previous days,
In the Quimet-Von Elm match the
verdict went to the man who LAID
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then sank the putt-a story or the
winning of any championship often
told. and always a repeater. Althougp
Francis was up at the iuneheon
fashion in the afternoon and reached
the eighth hole ] down, following a
beautiful fifteen-foot putt for by
Won Elm at the seventh. 5yhich curled
away from the cup, came. back, and
dropped with a satisfying "plunk.
Sweetser won from .Guilford chiefly
through the mistakes of the player
from Boston, for Sweetser in the
afternoon showed nothing like the
golf he displayed in the morning
to turn all square with the siege
gun. He went out in 3S and turned
2 up on Guilford. when he should
have been 8 UP. as he took three to
green. When Sweetser finally shook
hands with Guilford on the thirty
fifth green, the champion was three
over par for the last eighteens no les
hardly compatible with the pace he
set in the morning, bit still good
enough to beat the nerveless Guilford.
GuIIfOrd often in Trouble.
This match drew the largest gal
lery of the day, but did not have the
sustained interest of the Quimet-
Won Elm struggle, where brilliant
shot was followed by brilliant shot
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of a ball as it ran up to the lip of
the cup. Guilford was in trouble on
seven of the first nine holes. while
Sweetser, although he played one
second shot, from the rough, was
more uniformly straight. Even the
keep hosting them out of the rough
with the ACCURACY he played from
the fairway, and at last 1t told. The
gun dropped the third, fourth and
sixth, after winning the first to turn
down, Sweetser taking three puts
on the first green.
Sweetser annexed the tenth with a
magnificent brassie to the green, and
won the eleventh with a fine iron
shot, while Guilford took three puts,
They halved the next, two and then
4uilford won two in a row, Sweetser
pitching over the fourteenth to lose
and again overplaying the fifteenth.
At the sixteenth tee the Boston play
could get was a half with the fast
flying champion. ~
Guilford couldn't get home on the
seventeenth against the wind, and
the match ended there with the
champion 2 up and l to go. Sweetser
didn't putt well all l~day long. He
didn't get down a respectable putt
and missed two under three feet on
the out nine in the afternoon. but he
kept out of trouble and most of his
puts were for brides, while Jess
was struggling to equal par
Won Elm Takes the Lead.
Two up or George Won Elm at
noon, Ouimet got himself into a hole
early in the afternoon, dropping the
third hole through a hooked brassie
shot and losing the sixth to square
the match when he failed to get
home in 2. Right there Won Elm, a
scrappy golfer and a wonderful put
ter, took the bit in his teeth. and
sank a fifteen foot putt for a birdie
. at the seventh, with Francis ball
hanging on the lip of the cup. Won
Elm, l up, got a good half at the
eighth. a fine chip shot six inches
from the cup, getting the half. And
at the ninth it was Francis who did
we'll to get half, for he had to hole
an eight-footer after weak ap-
proach putt.
The man from the land of the
&acred cod put his back into brassie