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Show GOLF MAY LOSE JESS SWEETSER Former Amateur Champion Drops Tournament Play. Authentic report has It that Jess Sweetser of the Siwanoy Country club, former British and American amateur champion, Is practically through with tournament golf. Not for this season alone, but for all time. From friends of the Siwanoy "ace" It was learned that Jess has decided to follow In the footsteps of Miss Joyce Wethered, former champion of Great Britain. Miss Wethered announced an-nounced more than a year ago that tournament golf would see her no more. Sweetser Is understood to have assured J. Suffern Taller of Newport that he will tee up in the annual golf mashie Invitation at the latter's private pri-vate links on August 5. He also told friends that he intends to compete in the United States amateur champion ship, which gets under way at the Minikahda Golf club, Minneapolis, on August 22. But Sweetser also has told friends that the strain of competitive golf of the big league variety is not worth the candle. It will be recalled that the Siwanoy "ace" contracted a serious seri-ous illness while competing in England Eng-land last year and only recently did he recover sufficiently to return to his desk. "You cannot begin to imagine the strain of championship golf," began Sweetser. "You boys have little to worry about. You go out for a friendly friend-ly twosome or a foursome and all, or nearly all, is Jaughter and song and conversation. "If you have a new club you try It out during the. match. If it fails to bring the desired shot, you have done little to injure your reputation as a golfer. It is just another shot gone wrong. "When a champion or one who has been a champion plays over a links for the first time he is expected to lower the course record. Every shot has to be studied carefully, no mistakes mis-takes must be made, for every eye is on the champion. If he falls to shoot brilliant golf there Is much to-do about it." |