Evening star., 1928-04-29

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what IL meant yesterday when
we watched-and suffered in watch
ing--four great golfers go through their
PAGES over the course OF Columbia
Country Club, where the unconquerable
Bob Jones teamed with Phillips Finlay
OF New York to defeat Jess Sweetser OF
the big town and Roland r. Mackenzie
OF Columbia, and 2, in match
played for the benefit OF the Olympic
fund incidentally. the fund benefited
by something more than $500 through
the efforts of the quartet.
GamenesS means not alone the abil-
ity to play golf through a driving snow
storm II means the knack OF holding
a slippery club long enough and firmly
enough to play a far ranging shot
through snow and fog and rain. and
to hole the winning putt when needed.
And that is lust what the great Jones
had Yesterday at Columbia. He showed
his greatness in supeTlative measure by
scoring 73
But In our judgment the greatness OF
Jones was overShadowed by the game
ness OF Jess SweetSer. Here was man
who was taken on stFetcher from the
steamer less than two years ago. hur-
ried to Canada and then sent to
Ashevile for a cure that seemed diffi-
cult, He gained weight. played golf and
In every way seemed the Sweetser OF
old-the finest match player on the
American continent.
But yesterday Jess Sweetser. after
riding all night in Pullman car.
stepped out on the first tee at Columbia,
over the protest of his friend Bob Jones
and played l8 holes through the
worst weather that could possibly be i'm
agined In Washingtons usually beautiful
Spring And played good golf in the
bargain. He was the mainStay OF the
team OF Mackenzie and Sweetser.
Jess Gave Battle.
Had ii not been for him, the match
would have ended much earlier. for
Jess made two seemingly miraculous
recoveries to keep the match as even as
IL was for i2 holes. But the unfiagging
and impeccable accuracy OF Jones was
unbeatable yesterday. Not even all the
weather that was served up and the
unspoken feelings OF the small gallery
that stayed with the players, could pull
Sweetser and Mackenzie through.
Jones won and won almost unaided.
His ball alone, unaided by that OF
Flnlay, beat Sweetser and Mackenzie,
3 and 2. And Finlay missed three
winning margin 4 and 2. Had Finlay
given him normal assistance the win
ming margin would have been far larger.
Next to Jones was Sweetser's II, and
next TO him was Finlay with 81. Ro-
lands score could only be Appropriated.
for he topped his tea shot at the f1f~
teenth and picked up. and put one In
the ditch at the short sixteenth
Nevertheless. Roland played credit
able game under conditions which Bob
Stuntz said deserved the Congressional
Medal of Honor for all the players.
We gave him an 80 and he deserved
far better than that, for he played a
better than 30 game.
Only Four Errors by Jones.
Jones made Just four mistakes dur
Ing the round The others made plenty.
but their recoveries balanced their mis-
takes with iron and wood The great
Bobby, not yet used TO the green's took
three puts on the first green. Prom
that point To the fifteenth he didn't
make an error. At the fifteenth he
pitched over the green, At the seven
teenth he missed SiX-foot putt or
missing a six-foot putt can be called a
mistakel and at the eighteenth. from II
lie on the hillside at the right, he pulled
his iron shot To the left OF the green,
SweetSer was all over the golf course
for the first five holes. but he managed
to get In where getting In meant some
thing, holing four r-footer for half
with Jones at the third and one of sim
liar length for another half at the NTH
All the holes through the eleventh we're
halved even after Herbert Il, Shannon
drove his voice through the snow on the
eighth green. asking the gallery whether
the players should keep on. The play
ers-~game ones II ever there were four
answered that question by pulling
out their drivers and heading for the
ninth tee
SSWeetser won the eleventh with a
20~foot putt for T. but then Bob
Jones started, Something must have
made him angry for he won the next
| four holes unatded. 10 put the match
on Ice, Strangely enough. only one
birdie was recorded during the match
Mt the twelfth, where Jones soeked two
wooden shots 10 the hnleside and barely
missed his try for 3.
sweetseT Wins Eleventh.
After the first ten holes we're halved,
6weetser won the eleventh Here
sweetseT, short IN two, AS were the
0thera, haled 20sfooter to put his
side up Hui Jones came hack with
two marvellous shots 10 win the lone
twelfth with a birdie 4 lie was the
only one on the green AZ the short
thirteenth, and won again when Hd~
lands chip shot ran far past the hnle,
but al the fourteenth Jones wtzardTy
came into play, Here his tee shot found