The Detroit times., 1913-09-03
CHICK EVANS E
AGAIN GETS low
SCORE PRIZE !
On First and Second Round q
National Golf Championship
His Total Is 148.
GILBERT WALDO. JR.,
DETROIT, QUALITIES
Howard Lee, Another Local.
Golfer, Makes Total Of b
166 on Two Rounds. =

GARDEN CITY, L. l., Sept. 3.-.!f
Chick" Evans, 6 Chicago, today ~
won the low medaI prize for the OPEN 7 I I
ing rounds OF the national amateur
goif championship. evans played 81
IL on his second round today, andyr
with the II played yesterday his 70.
tai was l4S, three strokes better thaSrf.
the total of Francis Ouimet, Of Boz .
ton, who was his nearest competit0r,s,y,o3
Ouimet played rs today. making ma
total l6l. Several scores were yet ia
10 De turned In at 1880. but Il wat
believed that Evans would not bAwy
oeaten. ar
Evans was the winner OF the low
medal prize during the championship IS
play at Chicago last year. ~
Jerome Travers appeared to be IN
danger OF falling to qualify as re-,
suit OF his playing today. TraverS /,
played 70 yesterday, and today htp
score was even worse. He took IN
S6, playing the last hole, for which IL
three Is par. In seven. Unless other 4
scores run high, Travers was in dan. =
ger of being eliminated.
Walter ]. Travis was third for med q
al score before all Of the players
were In. He played q rs on hls. "a
morning round. making his total l6H
Robert A. Gardner. of Chicago, play s'S
ed "a. his total being 156. 1o7
The nrst play today was for the y
qualification Of nine out of is met1
who tied In the round yesterday with, =
score OF &c..
The following were the winners i
and qualified for the second round: -
Chisholm Beach, Fox Hall; A. r,
Hammer, Fox Hill: George Brokaws
Garden City; Ralph Peters, Jr., Carr:
den City; Gilbert Waldo, Jr., Detroit ~
Percy Pynit. Princeton; w. H. Gard "a
ner. Buffalo; Heinrich Schmidt, Wors
cester, Mass; F. e. Bowers. Bridges s;
port. 80
Bowers was the only man to QuaiirssS 4.
fy who was forced to play more than
one hole. The other eight made four 8.
each on the first hole. Bowers antIa
|others made fives and skies and Max
Marston lost to Bowers on the thirG
hole. ss
The best scores for the second
round and totals for the two roundE
of play follow: L
Fred Martin, Manchester, w.. 81
total 1872; Buckingham Merriam, Waf
terbury, Conn, SO, total 166; Philtk
Carter, New York, 70. total 1874: Hams
ilton Kerr. New York, 80, total 1867 !.
Charles Van Fleck, Jr.. Newark, ~.
total 1877: John NJ. Ward. New York.
80, total 1874; w. G. Fownes, Jr., Pitts
burgh. 80. total 1911; Archie Reid,
New York, SO, total 1872: George
Croker, Boston, Sc, total III: Park
er Whitamore, Boston. n, total 161;
II. b. Mcfarland, Philadelphia, 50. to- b.
tai 1866; f. H. Byers. Pittsburgh, IS. y
total 1862; J. &. Anderson, Boston. ~. u
total 1853; J. M. Stearns III, Prince VI
ton, 81. total 172: H. ]. Topping. q
Greenwich, Conn, II. total l56. 8,
Thomas NJ. Sherman, SON OF the
late vice-president, played 70 today "a
for total of 157. Others were: Paul
Hunter. Chicago. 81, total 1872; How.
ard Lee, Detroit, 81. total lss; war
rem Cochran, Baltimore, 81, total 165;
Frazer Hale, Chicago, 81. total les.
Jerome Travers qualified for the
first round of match play by . mar
row margin. He was tied with IL y,
others with a score of 1856. Only IL
of the IL could qualify for the third
round and on the play-on Heinrich
Schmidt. Of Worcester, Mass. was
eliminated. He got into bunker
and took a seven for the hole.
The first match play started late
this afternoon. The winners OF the
morning round we're paired AZ fol-
lows:
John Ward and z. NJ. Byers:
Fownes and Evans. Whitney and
Hale. Kerr and Travis, Merriman
and Maxwell, Sherman and Sullivan.
Cochran and Perrin Anderson and
Graham. Topping and Reid. Gardner
and Webb. Watson and Travers, bux-
ton and Ouimet, Ulmer and Hunter. :
Gardner and Herreshoff, Whitamore /,
and ]. NJ. Rhett, Carter and Martin. :