Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-16 | Page 14 | Marston Lifts Rogue Mask Didn't Try Tomake Stymies

MARSTON ARSTON LIFTS ROGUE MASK MASKI Declares Hes He's Not Such a Bad Sport DIDN'T TRY r. TO MAKE STYMIES ST I V I Dy By HENRY McLEMORE V United Press sports Writer LONDON May 16 Being a poor one for subtlety I simply walked up to the man and asked him point blank blank It if It were true that he was an ungracIous winner a poor loser and a cr cross irritable person V to play tournament golf with I asked Max Marston ot of Philadel phia and the Walker cup team these questions in order that I might know the truth about him As you know many of th these e things have been attributed at to Mr Marston These reports re rc ports gained circulation mostly at the national amateur at t Cincinnati I last Jast year car where he went to the final round before losing to George Dun Dun- I I b lap The press flayed AIr Mr Marston at V Cincinnati Not one but bul halt haU a dozen reporters said that he deliberately with malice aforethought and much satisfaction repeatedly stymied young Jack Munger in the semifinals And that after aUer one stymie smiled and said aloud Their there was the Incident of the per ti an early erly match bet be be- t tween een Mr Marston and 5 Sidney 11 nil Noye On the eighth hole Noyes hooked booked ii hit drive onto sa a ro road There right 1 In 1 front of his ban bail tat an unthinking pear A thinking Noyes tO e it alde before playing the shot Fo For this violation he had bad to the hole bole The p papers said Mr Marston Marston Mars Mars- ton with a smile mlle of wicked trl In on on his face had bad spotted the Noyes breach of the ruler and called It to the referees referee's atten atten- lion tion Mr Marston took my query very I But his answer was ws just as pointblank point M as was my queStion The Thc things said aid about aboul rae me were unbelievable un un- believable lies As for the stymies against Munger I actually laid him V but one real one and not nine lS as one reporter said mid The referee of the thc match John Jacl Jackson on- on general count coun- lel for the U. U S. S G. G A. A told me me ward that he s saw w only one genuine V As for my deliberately V placing stymies that that's total absurdity There Isn't a man in the world who can putt 20 ao well that he can lay down stymies whenever he wants to If I 1 could hit the simply put the ball in the cup Furthermore Jack Munger Li is the last chap Id I'd care to ni as he is b a school mate of my my oni and a very dear frIend of the family V Mr Mar Marston ton vas asked about the pear incident V Simply some more V tin live work by tera who hold holdan holdan an unaccountable malice toward m me cerf u. u darer than thana a hundred arc t Nou Nayer when I he Walked up to his ball baU It was not until the referee told me that I knew my opponent had violated II a rule I wUl say laY however that had I seen Noyes lift the pear I would have reported rules call caU for tor the immediate reporting of an opponents opponent's error and I be Have lIeve In playIng the game fame I would expect a rival to do the same thing thine to me