Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-10
less IS GREATEST
THREAT TO JONES
Had Same Medal Average as
Bobby for 1927-At His
Best. Says Kerrlgan.
BY BUNKER.

One of the most important events III
cnlf in 1928 will be the return OF Jess
Sweetser to competition in the national
amateur championship.
On advice of his physician. Jess did
NOT take the long journey to Minne-
ano,is TO compete In the 1927 cham
pionship. He was in splendid condition,
but the proposition Of several days OF
train-Yiding. with week OF strenuous
competition. mixed in between, seemed
illogical at that time.
Right now. SweetSer Is the picture OF
health. By the time the next champion
shin rolls around he will be all set for
II. It will come when the heat of Sum-
mer is past, and cool breezes are waiting
about the Massachusetts hills i'll the
neichborhood of Brae- Burn. Jess can
make an easy journey to the scene OF
battle.
Barring the workings of unforeseen
chance. SweetSer has a better chance
of conouering Bobby Jones than any
other amateur in the country. He has
no superior at match play among the
amateurs. Granted that Bobby is the
greatest goiier a.: euar lived. II he and
Sweetser should meet in the champion
ship finals at Brae-Burn. the betting
odds will be very close. They may
vanish.
Jess at His Best.
Tommy Kerrigan. professional at
eiwanoy. Sweetsers home club. has this
to say about jess:
Hes playing the best golf in his ca
feer now"
It is a rather interesting fact that in
tournament play last year Jess and
Bobby Jones had the same medal aver
-$~ fo fbn
true that Jess layed but IL rounds 10
Bobby's Is, and that he took part in
no major competitions, as Bobby did.
but the figures indicate there is no great
disparity in their medal ability.
Jess best performance OF the year
was In the Gold Mashie tournament
over T. Suffern Tailers private course
at Newport. r. !. He won the event
with four rounds of 73-74-71-69, to-
tai 287.
In the only tournament In which they
ever had a personal contest SweetSer
beat Jones. No matter how closely
Bobby pitched to the pin. Jesse kept
getting inside him. Jess Is a master of
the mashie and mashie niblick. He has
. spade mashie that is absolutely dia-
bolic in Its efficiency.
MAKES Bobby Laugh.
Bobby Jones has a very high regard
for Willie Macfarlane.
Strangely enough, in his first open
tournament, at Inverness, Toledo, Ohio,
In 1920, Mobby ended up in tie with
Eacfarlane, whom he never had met,
Some years later in Florida tourna-
ment, he and Macfarlane again tied
But the most striking episode of this
sort in which they figured was. OF
ho enfahratad affair q WnY~
cester. Mass, where they not only
were all even after y holes Of battling.
but again were in a tie after 10 holes
of a piay-of for the open champion
ship. Il wasn't until after they had
gone another 10 holes that Macfar-
lane finally broke away from Bobby
and captured the title.
no other man In golf has competed
against Bobby Jones In such manner
as this II is something that the Attain
tan discusses as one Of the most inter-
esting chapters In his career.
But as much as Bobby admires Mac
farlane as a golfer think he admires
him even more as Wit. Willie Is
always beating par with his snappy
wise cracks.
Bobby told me that at Worcester
during the play-of, when the heat was
terrific. he said TO Willie:
They say its los In the shade
today
To which Macfariane replied:
But we're not playing In the shade"
Perhaps the biggest laugh Macfar-
lane ever gave Bobby came during the
1927 open at Oakmont. Bobby on the
first day turned in rs and n. and In
the morning Of the second day reached
climax by recording disastrous 10.
When Bobby came out for his final
AHA nfE~ ia AAMSa &x<aa kAwse H.
FIRST tee Said willis:
After all these years. Bobby, you
are beginning TO play golf like a pro-
fessional."
Not only Bobby but everybody else
had good laugh out Of this. And
Bobby went out and shot n 10 top
Of his unusual performance.
Always Something Different.
It seems as IL It would be impossible
10 uncover hole lone story with a
new angle. but here's one from Tommy
Harmon. professional Of the Hudson
River Club. and contestant In many
national championships.
a number Of the clubs In the Hud-
son Valley have championship
tournament each year" SAYS Harmon,
In the qualifying round OF one OF
these tournaments at our club, L. O.
Young. one VI our members, made q
hOle-in-One On the. 3-yard thirteenth,
hole
About Is minutes later the second
pair VI players back o. Young and his
partner reached the thirteenth One OF
these men. whose name ! have for
gotten. proceeded 70 make another
hDle~i0 ~onel
Two aces on one hole and that q
205~yafd one, within the space Of about
IS minutes. certainly is going some
Yo1ngs act helped him 10 quaiif,
for the first fight Of 49, But the other
fellows only aided him In breaking 100
by a single stroke. He lapsed into q
lower flight.
fFgpyriRtt. 1921