Evening star., 1911-06-01
EVANS IN DEFEAT
Beaten on Nineteenth Green
for EngIand's Golf Title.
JOHN BALL ALSO PUT OUT
Australian Player Eliminates
Chicago Youth After an
Uphill Fight.

PRESTWICK. Scotland, June L.
Eharles c'Chick'o Evans. jr.. Of the
Edgewater Golf Club, Chicago who was
one Of the favorites for the British anna
teur golf championship, went down to de-
feat yesterday. in the fifth round. before
Bruce Pearce Of Australia. Pearce won
on the nineteenth green, after a hard
struggle that necessitated an extra hole.
Evans drew a bye in the first round
and had a walkover in the second. In
the third. which was played Tuesday. he
defeated Capt. F.. A Stephens Of the
West Dorset Golf Club. by 5 up and 3 to
play. In that match he did not play his
best game with his wooden clubs. but he
got into full swing yesterday morning.
when he defeated Sidney Fry of the
Royal North Devon Club, one of the
strongest players in the United Kingdom.
and former runner-up for the cham
pionship, by up and to play.
This victory carried Evans into the
group of sixteen for the fifth round, and
sent his stock soaring. He played at top
form against Pearce on the outward
journey. and. making few mistakes. was
3 up at the seventh hole.
Pearce, who Is q left-handed player,
showed rare nerve. however. He won
the ninth, but was again down at
the thirteenth. With only five holes to
play, Evans appeared to have the match
IN hand. but he missed short putt for
q half on the fourteenth green, and then
broke down badly on his long game. He
lost the sixteenth hole, halved the seven
teenth, and faced the home hole dormie
one. only to lose it squaring the match.
Great interest had been shown by a
large gallery in the keen struggle, and
nervousness was evident
when the players came up for the extra
hole. Pearce laid his approach shot to the
nineteenth green ten feet from the pin.
but Evans on the like had bad luck the
ball trickling over the green into a sand
trap He took two shots to get out, so
that the Australian. laying his putt dead.
won the hole and the match. Evans was
the first to congratulate the victor, and
both received q tremendous ovation.
ustrated in the unexpected defeat Of John
Ball. the seven-time winner and present
holder Of the British title. w. r. Crum-
mack, comparative outsider. defeated
the veteran by up and 2 to play. Aside
from the elimination of Evans this was
H. L. Cav. the Philadelphia, entered
from Lake Como, lost in the fourth round
to Lionel Mum of the Royal Dublin Golf
Club. Mum won by 2 and ! margin.
6dW Has UCcll pldyluk away 1TOIu In0
states a great deal during the last five
years. and this is not the first time he
has tried in vain for the British title.
Few American golfers have done so
much in as short q space of time as
"Chick" Evans. In 1908 and 1909 he won
the Chicago title. and western interscho-
lastic honors were also his in 1907. 1908
and 1909. He won the western Junior
in 1907, and repeated in
1900 and 1910. He also reached the semi
final round Of the national amateur cham
tournament last year and in
1909. The western championship for anna
teurs was won by Evans in 1909, and his
achievement last summer was
the winning Of the western open title.
When lad Of eight years Evans saw
golf for the first time on the Edgewater
links. near Chicago. During his early
years he played with an old-fashioned
shinny stick Finally his father gave him
a Morristown cleek for Christmas pres
ent, and a real golfer was in the max
ing.
Those who watched him closely last sea-
son were free to admit that he is a master
of the iron clubs. In this respect he
reminds one of Jerome D. Travers, who,