The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-04
~ JOHN a. ANDERSON.
manner tp In IOt3 for American
Amateur Golf Title.


= seem % me appropriate at this time to
ssva word about Chick and the others of
the middle West CONTINGENT who are to
NAV In the British amateur championship,
r.ssrylng for another week comment upon
rrancls Ouimet and other Massachusetts
representatives.
Chick. or to give him the benent OF his
ful name. Charles l.. Evans. Jr.. goes to
England as the best known abroad OF any
o, the American contenders and the most
widely heralded In going across the
water this year he goes to the scene OF
former triumphs. for three years ago he
vent through TO the hfth round Of the
British amateur championship and later
reached the climax OF his foreign efforts
by wInnlns the French amateur title.
But what the Edgewater golfer has
done In the past is beside the question.
Ths main concern is what In he going to
DO this year at Sandwich? The first
thought that strikes home Is that he will
have scant time for practice before the
amateur championship at Sandwich. He
asured before the Carmania left Boston
thst he would have only about ten DAYS of
preparation. Personally l do not believe
this 10 going to seriously affect his
chances. when he went three years ago
and did so we'll at Prestwick his time for
practising was almost as limited as II
will be this spring. yet he was in excellent
fette.
Heinrich Schmidt last year had only q
lev days for practice. yet made the best
showing OF any American since the mem.
orable occasion In 1904 when the title was
brought to the United States by Walter J.
Travis. Parker W. Whittemore Of Brook
lire. Mass. went over that same year and
arrived at Prestwick only a day or two
bafore the championship. In the trst
hA ~ n QV ai A
man who went through to the final, and
after bling I down IN the first four holes
he played so well that Lassen won by only
and I.
The point about these observations 10
that short practice period Is not neces
sarly handicap. II strikes me that rs
long a. Chick could not have had o long
psred Tor preparation In England he is
better on to have only ten or twelve days
nan to be there. say, three weeks and
work go hard to gain form as to 20 stale
about the time Of the championship. My
dea ID that a man should be In Ene,an nd
either long enough to get well accl,na ted
ana TO approach his best form gradually
or else to be there only a short period
10 advance OF the cha mpionship, as In the
case OF the Chicago golfer this time.
A. regards the course Chick will be no
stfaDser here. 1t was at Sandwich in
OH that the open championship was
PLAYED. In which Evans did splendidly the
nrst three rounds. getting ~ for each of
them. only to fail down badly In the
fourth with an 50.
] have pleasant recollections of that
year AZ sandwich, for I CHANGED to be
mere. and my first round Of the course on
which this years amateur championship IA
% BE- played was In partnership with
cnck against the Hon Michael Scott and
,ne present British amateur champion.
hafold n. Hilton. They defeated US only
! up largely due to magnificent spoon
snot oy Hilton out OF the rough. whereby
no isid the ball I foot from the hole and
GOV at the seventeenth hole. Evans
mayed well at Sandwich. He got one
practice round Of IS. as l recall, and twice
OUT IN SO, which Is exceedingly fine
so!! over that course.
ohiess British opinion has been changed
anee Jerome d. Travers did his wonder
.ul = at Westward Ho Evans will 70 into
me British championship possibly on an
even pass with both Travers and Ouimet
'eear,s favoritism. Until recently he
esaouhtedly would have been fayorite
W~ either or them. owing TO what Ed.
..'d Kay and Harry Vardon had to say
.e91f MS play after their return to Eng.
.na lAst iall. They considered him the
.s ~, american amateur they had seen, ami
pN,. opinion goes a long way with the
o,,iish golfing populace
Inc one thing which I was sorrv IN
@ IN connection with Chicks sailing
"es 'hat IN his equipment were four put
, u,s' 1, there Is any one thing which to
-. ."lu the Edgewater representative
,nould DO 1t Is to confine himself abso-
.ueE 70 the use Of one putter. I heartily
enc Tue sentiment OF one Of Chicks ad-
s ,a.efs at the sailing who said: You'd
,'eI throw three Of those putters into
Nm ae narbor and keep only your Braid
MINIS Certainly X he should throw awav
snree ana use the other-keep using Il
surely until desired results were forthcom-
ns-his chances Of succsss would be
much greater.
Lessons Chick has had galore on the
..rrsenlcacy OF indecision about his putting
nose who saw him on the fifteenth
sleen AT Garden City last fall In the ma
Sonsi amateur will never forget the ex-
motion which he gave OF not knowing
"hs' TO do over q putt that ought 10
ns.e gwen MIN the least concern. His II
hot case OF putt-rs, but of lack of
,A'n IN his own abilities with that clcb.
"a the old days when he used his Md
n"n instead OF putter he was able u
noo MS own. and a little more. on the
sreens' as elsewhere on the course. When
az came east In the amateur champion
mp al the Country Club in 1910 he came
We conclusion that IL was W. to him
learn to use putter. the greens being
huch different from those In the Chi
ago s'tict, where the md!ron sufficed
MS early experiences with the putter
were ~ofully unsIt isfactory, moving his
friends and others almost TO the point OF
Halcule. Possibly II Chick had been move
successful 18th the putter at that ut-e
no never could have had the least b
OF botaer bit in those early struggles
WIN the nuttsr he began to lose faith In
Hls prn ab,ilt.rs on the greens and never
mas fully reco eicd. The only way hs
style, s'ict 20 ou- putter and. like Gen
,rdht' 'n.ht I out on this line II II
tak'S al simmer" or many summers.
No other part OF Chicks game has an,
real N"hkness He is eight pounds heav'
'er than he was .tLyt fall at Garden City
ana Saws he " feeling In the best OIL
shape physically. II. is driving Longer
hall than ever, ton, which Is saying much
singular thing about Evans IL tina
"heo ~" played In the British amateur
'hn'ru,Wsh.n at Prestwick In 1911 hi:
putting was all that could be desired
Nnt''ls h's "iiving was OFF There shoult
." Poo '.uuh," over his driving this time
and, hope his putting will be as good 4
4 u ie u.lt" vars ago.
l'is meals to make his stay abroad
tH"r', uI, long enough To take In III,
F'''N amateur championship, which IN
N'' foo 49, tl.r year that h. and | ha,
r. ~ -"'Rnt ,lc struggl" AZ La Bouli'
~ 'U' 'ral : can testify that on tina
'-"p there WAS nothing wrong will