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...Fairfield (Conn.) Country Club ranged some pre-tournament mixed foursomes, wherein National Cham pion Edith Cummings, one-time Champions Glenna Collett (1922) and Marion Rollins (1921), and Mrs. Quentin Feitner, former Metropolitan champion (1920), reinforced by five bisques apiece, would tackle Champion Max Marston, onetime Champions Jess Sweetser (1922) and Francis Ouimet (1914), and French Champion John G. Anderson (all amateurs). Golden golf balls were dangled as prizes for the winning team...
...tryout. The new ball was given a thorough try-out last week at the Morris County Golf Club, near Convent, N. J. Jess W. Sweetser, National Amateur Champion in 1923, knocked out a 71 with the large, light ball-a new course record...
...Golf Association sustains the stymie. Ever since Max R. Marston snatched the amateur championship from Jesse W. Sweetser with a stymie on the 37th green at Flossmoor (Chicago) last summer (TIME, Oct. 1) discussion has sizzled. After intensive investigation the U. S. G. A. decided to retain the present ruling, arguing that the stymie's abolition would eliminate "what many believe to be the finest shot in golf, the short pitch into the hole...
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...
...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...