National Amateur Golf

Posted on the Scoreboard at Flossmoor (Chicago) were the scores of 32 qualifiers in the national amateur golf championship. Topping the list:

Charles Evans, Jr., Chicago. . . .*75 74 149

(Amateur Champion 1916, 1920)

R. T. Jones, Jr., Atlanta. . . . . . .75 74 149

S. D. Herron, Chicago. . . . . . . . . . .77 74 151

(Amateur Champion 1919)

W. C. Fownes, Pittsburgh. . . . . .78 74 152

(Amateur Champion 1910)

F. D. Ouimet, Boston. . . . . . . .80 73 153

(Amateur Champion 1914)

George von Elm, Salt Lake City. 76 77 153

Albert Seckel, Chicago. . . . . . . . . .76 78 154

Willie I. Hunter, Los Angeles. . . 79 75 154

(British Amateur Champ. 1921)

Rudolph E. Knepper, Sioux City. 77 78 155

Robert A. Gardner, Chicago. . . . . 74 82 156

(Amateur Champion 1909, 1915)

Below, tied with four others for twelfth, came Jess Sweetser, Yale and Siwanoy, titleholder, 157. Tied with him, Maxwell R. Marston, Philadelphia. J. P. Guilford, Boston (Amateur Champion 1921), had 158. F. S. Douglas of New York, Amateur Champion in 1898, whose entry this year aroused interest, failed to qualify with 84, 86-170.

Squaring off for match play, Hunter deftly eliminated Evans. Jones (open titleholder), Cochran of Wichita Falls, Herron, Fownes, Ouimet, von Elm, Gardner did not falter. Sweetser swamped Seckel, a Chicagoan. Philadelphians were pleased because Marston advanced by scotching Simpson of Indianapolis.

Next day the galleries gibbered. Jones, who shot 70 in the morning, was only two up on Marston. Marston, 70 in the afternoon, put Jones out, 2 and 1. Gardner trimmed Fownes; Sweetser, Herron; Ouimet, Hunter.

Ouimet's 2-and-l win from von Elm and Jones' 4-stroke margin over Evans (71 to 75) in the medal playoff, featured the third day.

Then more gibbering. Marston sighted 45 feet across the soggy 15th green, holed a two, ushered Ouimet out at the next hole. Sweetser eased into the finals by ousting Gardner.

Ding dong, up and down, Sweetser and Marston played to a mutual standstill in 36 holes. They walked over to the first tee and halved their 37th hole in the figure 5. They drove to the 38th, Marston on, Sweetser off. Sweetser chipped, Marston putted, and his fifth stymie of the day made Sweetser runner-up, Marston champion.

Had Sweetser retained his title it would have been the first such repetition since Travers' performance in 1912. And not since 1911 has there been an extra-hole event.

*Par at Flossmoor is 74.