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...Holderness was another. Sir Ernest lost to another untried youngster, Robert Peattie, whose father is postmaster of Perth. That really left Champion Robert Harris as the only man of calibre sufficient for a brave final, for even the Irish champion, Dr. John McCormack, had been put out by Jess Sweetser...
...course the Americans were slaughtering each other too. Sweetser had beaten dangerous Francis Ouimet, who had previously eliminated George Von Elm. But Bobby Jones, playing at the top of his game, stood between Harris and the demi semifinal. Their match, the first meeting in title play of a U. S. and a British champion, was the most spectacular of the tournament. At the very third stroke Jones holed an approach for a birdie. He made five more birdies in the next eleven holes. He trounced Harris eight up and six to go, and Harris was by no means off form...
...that hooked to the rough and traps, sent his approaches wide and missed diminutive putts the next day against 21-year-old Arthur Jamieson Jr., whose work around the greens more than earned him his place in the semifinal. There Jamieson was trimmed by S. F. Simpson, while Jess Sweetser was demonstrating, by a tremendously hard fought win over the Hon. W. G. Brownlow of Ireland, his undoubted superiority over anyone left in the tournament since the departure of Jones. Handicapped by a wrenched knee, the blond strapper turned in a 75 for the 6,738-yd., par 74 course...
Solemn British journalists who reported the meeting between Mr. Simpson and Mr. Sweetser wrote about everything but golf. They wrote about the clear day and the blue heather and the crowd of 6,000 lords, ladies, and gentlemen. When they found it necessary to mention the game that was being played that day, they said that Sweetser was a champion and that Simpson was a good golfer. There was really nothing more to be said. If Mr. S. F. Simpson of Glasgow joined your foursome next Sunday, you would admire his game. You would remember him as an exceptionally quiet...
...McKim '16, and H. C. MacDuffie '14. Among the other speakers will be D. C. Wilbur and V. E. Parmenter, Graduates of Dartmouth. Other names included in the list are H. E. Horn, import Manager of Lowney's Chocolates, R. B. Capon of Whittemore Bros., H. A. Sweetser, district manager of the United States Chamber of Commerce, and E. O. Hatch of the Carr Fastener...