New-York tribune., 1910-07-30
EVANS TO DEFEND TITLE
Will Play Phelps To-day for
Western Championship.
SHARP CONTESTSYESTERDAY
Both Golfers in Close Matches
While Fighting Their
WAY to Finish.

Minneapolis, July @--Charles Evans, jr.,
of Edgewater, will defend his title as
Western champion against Mason E
Phelps, of Midlothian, in the finals cf the
Western Golf Association tournament at
the Mnikahda Club, tomorrow. 1t will be
a meeting of champions, as Phelps won the
Western honors at the Rock Island tourna-
nent in 1905.
Chick Evans, as his friends call him. won
his way into the final round by defeating
Robert E. Hunter. of Midlothian. in hotly
contested thirty-nine-h match in the
semi-finals to-day by l up. Phelps defeated
Warren X Wood, of Homewood, by up
and 70 play
The Western champion gave one of the
most marvellous exhibitions of golfing nerve
ever seen on Western links. Hunter was
dormie I playing the eighteenth hole in
the afternoon round. but Evans made a
remarkable 3 in the face of golfng
difficulties that would have overwhelmed
any one not OF championship calibre. With
the match even, they started the thirty
seventh hole.
Playing that hole it appeared as If the
fates had doomed Evans TO defeat, but his
friends stopped him from giving up the
hole Evans's drive went into the first
bunker and he lost a stroke getting out
Hard luck still followed him, and he over
approached into the sand trap on the far
side Of the green. Another stroke was
lost there. and he was on the edge Of the
green In i. He missed a long put for g. 5.
friends advised him TO wait until Hunter
had putted. Hunters second was short
and he overapproached on his third He
took three puts for u 8; Evans holed out In
G. and the match was still on
Hunter was hole-high Oh the second, but
on the edge of the green. F5vans's second
was sixty yards short, but he laid his
approach almost dead TO the hole, and IL
was halved IN 4
The strain was beginning to tell Oh Hun
ter. and he wabbed badly going to the
third. The third hole is at the top of a
hill. and it is 130 yards long Hunters
pitch was short and rolled back down the
hill. He put his second too far over and
his third too far back toward the tee he
finally lay on the green in and missed
a put for .. Evans had better luck. and
victory in the hardest fought match of the
tourney.
Evans was / down at the end Of the
morning round. as Hunter came in well
after being down at the turn The match
was evened when Evans won the first hole
SIS. after Hunter got into the bunker at
the far side of the green and lost a stroke
getting out Evans also went In, but got
out on the green IN 5. On the second
Evans ran down 15-foot put for hair
in / Hunters pitch was short on the third
and Evans won, 81, making him up
Hunter went into a bunker on the fourth
and Evans won. @. making him up
The fifth and sixth were haIved in par
figures, Evans trimming the cup for 5 on
the latter hole.
Evans had bad luck on the seventh and
lost the hole, ; TO 4, when he lost a stroke
by uniutentionalIy hitting his bali while
addressing IL Both missed puts on the
eighth, and the hole was halved in .. On
the ninth Evans put his second on the
lower side of an cmbankulent to the LEFT
of the green, and Hunter won the hole
TO ). making the match even at the turn
On the homeward tourney Hunters ap-
proaching was deadly in its accuracy, and
he was able 10 halve several holes on that
account. The tenth. eleventh, twelfth thir-
teenth. fourteenth and fifteenth were halved
in par figures
On the sixteenth Hunter put his second
within two feet Of the hole and ran 1t
down, winning the hole , 10 4 ana taking
the lead. Evans kept the match going by
holding ten-foot put for q half in three
or the seventeenth. Evans had 10 win
the eighteenth to stay IN the running. He
got off a beautiful drive. but 1t rolled un-
der the raised side OF q public road run
ming through the course about forty yards
from the hole 1t was an almost unplay-
abs. lie, but Evans showed his cham
pionship caIibre when he played out and
put the bali about three feet from the
hole Hunter went TO the far side of the
green on his approach. and Evans won the
hole, 8 10 1. Then came the three extra
holes and E,vans's victory
The cards follow:
Evans-Out ... 8 . 6 4 3 5-ie
fn..-.---- g :, 5--se-- 20
Hunter-Oar. I > :. 6 ( : ) 6-i0
In..--..-. . q q . 1 ! 4-3I- II
Evans-Out...--. 1 = = 5-io
fn......-. > 4 > / ! . 3-S.-i54
Tfuuter-Out..... g ( . 4-i2
Tn..,-...- . > ! :: , 4-}5-i54
Bre hoies- Evans .--.. ...-...- q 1
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