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Show AMATEUR CHAMP dS UNEQUALED j mm. Sweetser Has Unique Record Rec-ord of Never Losing Twice to the Same Opponent By Robert EJgren Jesse Sweetser, who won he American Amer-ican amateur golf championship, has Spiked the theory that golf in "an old min i game. Sweat ser, a taie gui- dent, la only 30. Moreover, In the semifinal and final matches at Breoa line, hlck Evans was the "old man" Of the other In the wlndup games, .Rudy Knepper of Princeton and biu iiv was only 20. Bubble Jones, who kas Just finished his emirse In iieorgla Tfecb and g-oea to Harvard thia y ar tor a post graduate course. Is also 20. Three college men. each 0 years old. In the semifinals and final! Oolf looks Uke a college mans sport. . J ease Hweetser Is one of the greatest golfers that ever won a championahlp, amateur or professional. He is a natural nat-ural athlete. He was born In lxula-t lxula-t vllle, Ky, where they ralee great horses and fins men. His present home la it lironxvllle. New York City. Jesse la SI feet tall, welgha Mt pourxli, and i of a cleancut athletelc. build. He walks with a springy stride and never tire a In hlg first year at Tale he went out for the track team and became a fast quarter mller. Hut Vale had a lot of f ood 440 men that year, and Hweetser's riends, who knew he had a knack for Voif, persusded him to give up the track for the llnka He played little aolf while he was running, but when he took up the rami In earnest In his second year quickly developed form that put him on the team. He won the lntercolleg-late championship. STAR WITH MASH1K. The laat time New York had a national na-tional champion was In 11 J, when Jerry Travtrs won the title. Rwev-sr Rwev-sr entered the national at Pittsburg in lis and failed to quality by one stroke. In mo he was defeated in the third round by Kred Wright of Iioaton. In 1121 at Ht. loula Jesee lot in the second rouod. to t hick tivane. one down at the eighteenth holt, ity a turn of lurk It was ChU-k Kvana he defeated this year In the final match at Hrookllne. He won the metropolitan metro-politan championship last year at Lake-wood. Lake-wood. Hweetser never haa heen beaten twice .eW'the name man. I.Ike Benny Innard. lightweight boxing rhnmpion, ha awnya knowa how to outplay Ma rival waea they meet again. Kvana, Junw S"t (Jn I rn e have J&eaten him In the 1' r eu-t aH lost to- him In the unit aat rh. His athletic Mtlld enables him to wrtve a ery tnnsr hsiH wMbeut eff. Jn the championship matt-h he outdrove Chick Kvana by an averaxs of fifteen yarde. and prohahly could have increased in-creased that margin but for the fart that Hrookllne la not a long ceurae and long driving Im't easential. Hie best stroke Is a lush mashle. I'lke J. H. Tiylr he believes that "there are no hunkers In the air. Ilia Mgh maehte a hole drop atrwlght down, and they stick even on the hsrdeat and amontheat greens. Hs la extremely extreme-ly accurate with all maahie shots, long er short, and always ptaya for the pin Juat the way a markaman shoots for the middle of the bullae ye. In the .championships he holed out three maahie approaches. The longest was ahout ninety yards. B KBTflKK BHKAKX BKr ONDR. 4n the peat two years 8weeier ha shown his remark a his stead mesa by leaking many course records aroiuiti Nuw York. :ven In the championships at Hrook-yrje, Hrook-yrje, where scores of the world's moat fiynous golfers have played for years, ha hrpke the rnurae record, arorln at after Guilford had broken tha ,-ord with a 70 In the same tournament. tourna-ment. No golfer ever defeated as manv fa-rdous fa-rdous players In suoreaiv mauhea as pweeteer did at Hrookllne. (in consecutive consec-utive days he heat Willie Hunter, Kn- 81) h amateur champion In 1921, J rune uilford- Amertcnn champion In 121, Pobhle Jo nee, who la regarded by man fls the finest amateur plaver In the rld. and thick Kvana, holder of niany title. He heat llnhble Jones eight down and even to play the worst licking Jot. ever had. And Jonea wn playing great kolf all the way. Kor the aeond nine In the morning and the firet nine In the afternoon Jonea had a medal of V shois. yet of the I holea playei I nee won onlv two. Ftwetser won ten and the rest were halved. r1t was In the f irat ound against Xonea. at the second bole, that Sweet-Vr Sweet-Vr dropped hla nknetv-vard maahie Ihiv the cup In the flrat nine holes hweef-er hweef-er won al. Then contng In Jnns rallied and played the nine In thlrtv-four thlrtv-four strokes, two under par, and wun all that maernlficaat play waa able iV win only one hole and halve eight' When Jeaes Hweetser met thlc Kvana. the veteran. In the final match, the dope around Hoaton waa that the Yale hoy had "shot hi had off in the earlier matchr and was sure to break dowa and prove an easv victim , for Chick. livsns had won the tirie twice and had been In the semifinals nine times. Affalnst this record tfw.-et-eer s performances were those of a novice. Ill GRKAT SHOT. Yet the youngster set such a race that Kvana never took the lead from S'art to flnUh, and after leaving the first tea was even only once T the eleventh hole In the mornlnc found Hweetser outdrove iTvapa stea.fcltv, hut the greatest surprise of the day was the way he dropped hla mashle approaches nearer to the pin, although ) vdi la regarded as unequalled In Iron play. At the thirteenth hole In the afternoon after-noon Kvana laid ahout 170 yards from the Orefvn, and Hweetser ten va rda - nearer after the drive. Evans placed a ipeon shot within eight yards of the pin ana smilingly turned lo bweetser. . thinking the hole safely won. Kwi. er shot a high raashis and dropped . tji ball three feet nearer than "hick's. n putting the two were about euual, e.frept that Sweetser holed hla long Putts when he noeded them Bloat. Marttnr the afternoon round tha gal-lry gal-lry ex per ted to see FT vans overcome Jesse's l-ad. At the flrt hole ftweet- tm-tf" nof Into f h rmifh h'lt hnt his third to ths green twelve feet froti. the pin. Kvana third waa only two feet front the cup. Aad Hweetacr koled hie putt. "It wasn't any use shooting against ra bird who can recover after two bad shots and halve holes In par when I ve gut 'em won.' Evans id later. Sweetser la modest, When the championship cham-pionship was won he told friends he was more surprised than anyone else. ( He went to Hrookllne noping to have aome good sport and make a fair showing, show-ing, but hads't dreamed of wlnulng ths .title. I Last winter Jesse left Tale by spe-I spe-I clal permission to go Into business, but ' he has gone back to finish his course College aludtes coming first, ha will tplay little more golf this season. He didn't enter the metropolitan, and he Is e i pec ted to play la only two tournaments, tour-naments, the Victory cup and the lea-l-y Intercltv matches between i York and Boston When he finishes 1 college, he says, he entenda to go info j banking, and from that time on will I prohahly not give verr much time to the game. Even st that he'll prohabtv i '1st en tf tncle Ram needs htm for an I interatl'a: match.- (CoprigM. --'?. tv the Bell S a-dicate, a-dicate, loc 4 |