Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-03
EVANS LEADS IN
GOLF COMPETITION
Sets New Course Record in
Winning Garden City
Medal.

GARDEN CITY. L. l., Sept. a.
Charles w ("Chick) Evans, jr. led
the field in the qualifying round of
the amateur golf championship tour
nament over the links of the Garden
City Golf Club yesterday while Jer-
ONE D. Travers. of Upper Montclair
the title-holder, furnished a series of
thrills to the big gallery, earning a
place in the coveted thirty two after
the play-off of a tie.
1t seemed odd to see the champion
so widely separated from his greatest
rival Chick" Evans Having sud
denly come on his game. the Edge
water golfer accomplished the SEEM
ingly impossible by coming home in
80. which, combined with a 80 out
gave a II for the round, a new COM
petitive record for the course. Incl
dentally. Evans won the gold medal
his total of las for thirty-six holes
leading Francis Ouimet. the first days
leader, by a margin of three strokes.
The draw for the first match play
round of eighteen holes brought Byers
and Ward together in the first brack-
ct. Byers won by a and margin.
Evans had to face w. c. Fownes.
IT., of Oakmont, a former national
champion. They halved the first three
holes before Evans took the lead
with a 5 at the long fourth A stymie
at the next green enabled the West
erner to steal another hole and, al
though Fownes won the sixth, he
lost the next two and turned for
home down, his opponent having
gone out in 81
Fownes picked up two holes by
winning the eleventh and twelfth. At
the last named Evans laid his second
shot dead but Fownes brought off a
twenty-toot putt for a ?. He hung
on by halving the next three. but lost
the sixteenth and seventeenth, so that
Evans was returned a winner by
and 1 margin.
AS if Travers had not had enough
trouble for one day, he struck
hornets nest, so to speak, in his
match with Robert Watson. The
United States Golf Association presi-
dent started in a way that would
have made a Vardon envious, max
ing 8, 2, 3, so that Travers found him
self 3 down before he fairly realized
what was going on.
Thereafter the titleholder went at
his opponent in a manner that would
not be denied SO that Watson by
making slips at the seventh, eighth
and ninth holes lost them all The
match was then all square, the card
reading 80 to 40 in favor of Travers
He lost the long thirteenth but As at
the next two returned him a COM
Portable winner by 4 up and to play
Ouimet justified the laudatory
things that have been said of him
by his Massachusetts admirers, easily
disposing of c. B. Buxton, of Hunt
ington Valley. At the turn Ouimet
stood up, and he merely held his
advantage from there on, the match
ending on the sixteenth green.
Fred Herreshoff Won a creditable
victory over Robert Gardner, a for
mer national champion They were
all square at the turn but Her
reshoff had the better of the APP
preaching thereafter, winning by 3 I'm
and to play.
Walter Travis got back at Hamil-
ton Kerr for a defeat received at
Pinehurst last winter. Up to the hole
and on the green Travis was as
steady as a rock, and Kerr was soon
hopelessly out of it, the match end
ing on the thirteenth green. The
hrst thirty-two cards were as fol-
lows: