Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-26
JONES ELIMINATES.
.SWEETSER, 9 AND g..
TO REACH FINALS.
Strong Finish Stops Rally of
New Yorker After Allan
tan's Early Squirt.
BOBBY'S ADVANTAGE CUT
TO ONE HOLE AT TENTH
Seaver Winds Up Morning Play
of Other Semi-Final by Put
ting Romans 5 Down.

MERTON CRICKET CLUB, ARD
MORE, Pa, September 26 (P.-
Bobby Jones crushed Jess Sweetser,
and 8, today in the semi-finals of
the national amateur golf cham
pionship.
BY the Associated Press
MERTON CRICKET CLUB, ARD
MORE, Pa, September 26.-After with
standing a great comeback by his rival
Bobby Jones was 4 up over Jess Sweet
ser of New York today after 10 holes
Of the 36-hole semi-final match in the
national amateur golf championship.
Jones finished strongly to regain a
commanding lead after Charley Seaver
the 19-year-old Los Angeles youth, in
the other semi-final match, swept into
lead of up over Eugene v. Romans
of Englewood, N. j.
Jones won three of the last four holes
after the big blonde New Yorker had
spurted midway through the round and
almost wiped out the Georgian's earlier
advantage.
The battle of former American anna
teur champions started like rout when
Jones won four of the first five holes
with golf that was under par and
machine-like in its accuracy. Big Jess
meanwhile was all over the course, in
two traps on one hole and in water
hazards on another, but he suddenly
braced and gave the gallery of $500
spectators thrill by making a fight
Of it.
Sweetser Rallies SuperbIy.
Whether 1t was the return of his own
touch or the influence of drive out of
bounds by Jones on the seventh,
Sweetser rallied superbly to win three
out of four holes, cutting Bobbys lead
to just one hole at the tenth.
Jones putted badly to lose the ninth
after landing just on the green with his
tee shot. He three-putted the tenth
and three-putted the twelfth after being
lucky to win on the eleventh, which
both played badly.
A birdie on the fifteenth, where he
sank a 6-footer, started Jones of on
another rampage. He narrowly missed
brides on both the seventeenth and
eighteenth, but pars were good enough
to beat the willing SweetSer.
Seaver Misses Two FOOter.
Romans bad putting cost him four
holes, but Seaver, too, failed several
times with his putter in a pinch, no.
tably when he missed a 2-footer at the
fifteenth for what seemed to be a sure
birdie 3. The Californian was con-
sistently longer from the tee.
The Jersey boys putting lapses start
ed early in the day, when he took three
puts on the second green.
Seaver scored the only birdie of the
round when he sent niblick pitch
feet from the pin at the eighth and
holed the putt for 3.
A partial styrnie enabled the Los An
geles youth to win the sixteenth after
both had reached the green with Sec
ond shots over the deep quarry guard.
ing the hole. Two bad tee shots at the
short seventeenth and a home hole per.
fectly played by each resulted in halves
at the finishing holes.
Play on SOggy Course.
When Jones and Sweetser teed of
the course was still soggy from yester.
days downpour. Jess sliced his frs
drive to trap, exploded into another
sand pit and then overshot the green
Bob was straight down the middle
and on in two, 10 feet from the pin
SweetSer came on with his fourth, but
missed the putt. Bob sank his for q
bird" 3. Jones, up.
On the second, 523 yards, Sweetsel
again sliced his drive to a side hill lie
but clouted a fine brassie to the edge
OF rough. 80 yards short. He Their
Clipped 10 feet from the pin, while
Bob, 10 yards off the edge in two. rolled
his approach feet short of the CUP
Both missed. Jones partially styniec
Jess, but the latter curled his bal
around for half in fives.
Jones, up.
Bob fired his tee shot to the green
80 feet to the right of the pin on the
195-yard third, while Jess put his ball or
the side of a trap. He Clipped Out
much too strong, going about 20 feet
beyond the pin. His putt was of the
line by 3 feet and Jess conceded the
hole after Bob rolled dead for par 3.
Jones, up.
Jones looked like the golfinR machin,
again as he hammered two long wood.
down the middle of the 595-yard fourth
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