Show Jess Sweetser Scorns Modern rn Golf Tournaments Too Much Strain In InThis This Sort Of Play Former ormer Champ Declines Opportunity to Com Corn Compete Compete pete in Contests BY JIMMY POWERS YORK Aug 2 Jess Jess Sweet Sweet- NEW I I ser er r. r former British and nd American amateur champion Is l through with tournament golf not golf not for this season ason alone but for br all time One of the games frames most belligerent and spectacular stars has finally de decided de- de decided decided definitely to follow the example of oC another great player Miss Joyce former women's champion of ot Great Britain Bri ln This writer missing Jess at the theU theU theU U S. S open at Oakmont and hearing that despite his flis recovery from his illness and the fact that he was as shoot shoot- shooting shooting ing well In minor meets journeyed up to vano Sl and stumbled on an eyebrow raising yarn Remember the Harvard Haryard football star who caused such a fuss when he excoriated the grid sport and said uld It might b be all the world to Its mother but It U was Just a pain in the neck to him LUCKY FELLOWS FELLOWS' Well here is 15 Jess scoring modern golt I sorrowfully quitting the com corn competitive field he once once loved lo lo so o oell well ell because cause it has degenerated from irom a pastime to a grim flesh blood-and-flesh business You fellows who play for the fun of or it do not realize how lucky you ou are Jess J explains You cannot be begin begin be begin gin to Imagine the strain of oC cham championship golf olt You go out for a friendly twosome or foursome and with a few exceptions e all Is 15 laughter aughter and conversation That is as M it should be If U If you ou ha e a new club dub you try it 11 out during the match If it fails taUs you you jou OU hue have done little to injure your reputation as a golfer golter It 13 u just another shot gone wrong You may nuy lose Jose the hole as the re result re- re result sult suIt but It is 15 unlikely there will be beany beany beany I any headlines in the newspapers about it next day When a champion or one who has been a champion plays over a links for the first time Ume he heis is expected to lower ower the course record Every ery shot has bas to be studied carefully and no mistakes must be bP b made for cry e eye ee is la on the champion If he falls fails to shoot brilliant golf there is 15 much to todo todo todo do about it It It is 15 not worth it The strain takes all the pleasure away from the game HARD liARD WORK Championship golf gol is not recreation tion Uon it Is hard work I have hae stood beside my ball and felt perspiration oozing from every pore pore and and the weather would not necessarily be hot either r It will be remembered at this point that Jess nearly lost his life ife from an illness Ulness that grew more acute follow follow- following following following ing the strain of oC his gallant battle in the 1926 British amateur cham chain I I hope to play golf gol indefinitely Indefinitely- but no more of the big league stuff for lor me There is less Jess fun in that sort of golf golt and Im I'm going to try to get all aU the recreation I possibly can get out of i but 1 but Im I'm not going after aUer anything else elseI elseI I may play in a few tournaments but I 1 will be playing to amuse myself The major meets are out as far as I 1 am concerned Miss Miss' Joyce Joce Wethered Wethered ered creel of England has the same mellow philosophy it seems I can see now where she Is 15 right Golf Golt was WM originally intended Int to be fun fun Im I'm going to keep it so |