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Show GALLERY MARSHALS DISCONCERT STARS Shouts From Officials Disturb More Than Spectators. More disturbance of golfers during Important matches comes from gallery gal-lery marshals and golf officials than from spectators, said a leading tournament tour-nament player in commenting on the recent charges that Bill Melhorn at the San Antonio open rattled Bobby Cruickshank on the final green so that he took four putts and missed one of ten Inches to tie MacDonald Smith for the title. This player cited several Instances In which ofiicial persons had disconcerted discon-certed players at critical moments, but did not recall any case in which an unruly gallery had offended seriously. seri-ously. I'layers always are expecting some slight motion and mumbling by spectators and s-teel themselves to ignore ig-nore it, but the outburst of an ofiicial at a critical moment Is so unexpected that it has the effect of spoiling a stroke. A shining example of this was the play at the thirty-sixth hole In the final of the national amateur championship cham-pionship at Flossmoor club, Chicago, two years ago. Jess Sweetser of New York, defending his title against Max Marston of Philadelphia, was at the lower corner of the sloping eighteenth green of the long hole In two splendid shots and had to go down in two more to stave off defeat. It was a tense moment and the large gallery was a trifle restless hut made no unseemly movement or noise. Sweetser set himself for the task of chipping the ball up the grade dead ; piisii ( pit Jesse Sweetser. to the hole 30 yards away. Just as he was ready, after careful preparation, prepara-tion, to hit the ball an ofiicial yelled "Fore." The champion threw down his club and whirled around with a despairing look, as though he had been struck in the face by a friend. He had been upset by a digestive ' disturbance during the round, but despite de-spite this and the act of the official, he composed himself enough to make the sbot and then sink a half stymied sidehill putt to carry the match to extra holes. It might have been the reflex of this mental jolt that caused him to misplay the thirty-eighth hole and yield the title to Marston. |