The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-05

BY the time the mi-nuli round Is reached
] am usually all in physically
Evans u Fine Golfer.
These quotations, which have been Sc
lected at random almost, open wide
held OF discussion. II IS admitted nv
every golfer that there is no better medal
player in the country, certainly none
more brilliant. thaW the Edgewater anna
teur But II the national amateur cham
ponship were % he played on say for
the sake OF an argument at match play
medal" that is. whore the rounds would
he played with drawn opponents but with
medal scores to tell who would go on In
the next rounds would Evans he the one
most favored 70 win Would he fall
down In the semi-hnal round on that
occasion II, as he says in another part
OF the article. there is no difference be
tween match and medal play ability, why
Is ne successful IA the one and not IN
the other tried this thought out on
n few professionals the other DAY and
was not surprised when they said that
they would much prefer the lack Of
strain which there IL in a week of match
play than to play In a 70 hole contest
where every stroke takes II out of them
in one way OF another. a bad hole Ia
match play may be forgotten and the
strokes not put down on the card, but
not so in medal. There may not he the
call lot HuNu uudutl-N OF nerve anu
power required In stretch of match
play hut there is surely very much re-
quired when championship medal round
OF ~ holes is the programme. The
strain. therefore comes IN the playing Of
the opponent rather than the game itself
curious Inconsistency crops out when
Evans makes the statements that he has
never been beaten in a Western SEMI
final and that the amateur championships
in the West a few years ago, and pre-
sumably II almost as much now. was
harder to win than the national champion
ship itself Then follows the statement
that he considers his failure In the MAJ
tlonh to he due u his physical condition
which gives way before the constant
strain. Why, I should like to know. should
Evans fail physically In tournament
which Is not as hard TO win when he
reaches tho semi finals when he never
loses in the Western semi-fnals. which he
eeerns to believe IL n much harder propo-
sitfon
Nor do ! think Il accurate TO say
that in 1912 the reason for his losing the
championship was due to an cxtraordi-
nary round OF golf by Travers Jerome
Travers's golf that day was as fine as
Francis OuimetS at Manchester a few
weeks ago II was well nigh perfect golf
hut It should not seem extraordinary 10
ono who himself makes so many Of those
rounds Evans's last nine in 80 at Gar
den City last year was startling enough,
but II was not considered extraordinary,
for in practice the same score had been
made on four different occasions by other
golfers
Probably TO player has been called upon
20 meet harder foes in the early rounds
than the former champion Jerome Ira
vers, except It be Walter Travis. These
players take the attitude that IL they are
TO win the champ onship their opponents
Uae ~. %
and there Ia no better time than the pres
ent. Surely the way was not all roses for
Ouimet this year 10 reach the final round
nor was II easy for Travers, who In the
very first round had "A hard opponent to
battle,
Western Players Records.
Three OF Evans'e defeats have taken
place on Eastern links. but II must be
noted that the Fasteners have won on
Western links with "A fair degree OF pro-
fciency and regularity. Chandler Egan's
day is almost OF the past, and since then
Robert Gardner has been the only one
who comes from the Chicago district TO
win the title. In the last three years, sure
~ a sufficient span 70 reckon on. there has
been In the finals for 'hc United States
golf championship one W. stcrncr and five
Easterners Tho fact may be cmpha sized
too that these tournaments have drawn
from the West their hest PLAYERS with the
possible exception here and there of one
or two. The competition Is keen and the
Eastern players KIN or each other in due
II not undue proportion, The draw has
never found the West with It's best players
drawn against each other when the same
thing did not occur with the Eastern play
eTs
Why does Evans fall in the semi
final rounds OF the championship" There
are number Of reasons which hnve been
discussed I'm cubhouscs and on the links.
ana strange as II may seem, the answer
Is not even touched upon in his article
il Is well known fact that there are not
thlrty-two players In tho country who nrc
on an equality or even near ono There
are pound 20 b" some matches in the
course of the round up n the Somi-fnals
which are not hard for the player who nj.
tlmately gets tnto the finals But when
the sem-fnal round is reached the plav-
ers are more on an equal basis and they
are there To- hsnt from the first drive
Ihen Is the time when tho match play
spirit so called, whether named rightly
OF not comes more prominently into mind
ana YOU might almost say into view. and
he player needs something besides his
same TO carry him. through. That some