Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-22

Detroit the next stop! Less than a
week now and the officials In the Dig
committee tent will be handing out
score cards, pencils and. mayhap, rule
book as we'll to the entrants In the
twenty third annual championship for
the title of national amateur golf king,
writes John G. Anderson in the New
York Sun Strictly speaking this Is the
twenty first annual under the auspices
of the United States Golf Association.
for in 1895 the association hrst took
over the running of the event. Since
that time the title has been won nine
times by players representing western
clubs, ten times by fasteners and once
by an Englishman, Harold H. Hilton
Eight finalist runners-up have come
from the west, eleven from the east,
while Canada in the person or George ..
Lyon was represented another time.
It will be seen, therefore, that the
east. while it has had representatives.
which have won the title nve OUT OF
the last eight years to twice for the
westerners. has only a little TO spare IN
a westerner will close up the gap con-
siderably 1t may be interesting to
note for a moment the chances OF the
leading westerners. in light OF their
present FORM, evening Op sAc oSoAo DA'N
making the wins ten all.
Charles (Chick) Evans naturally
seems In a class by himself Wnen IL
comes to ranking the western payers.
When matched UP against his 1elloW
golfers. men who have had may ROUNDS
with Evans and not only have seen him
accomplish what seemed the impossi-
BILE. but have been at times beaten py
such play, it often happens that these
golfers think too much OF MS aDi!ity
and too little of their own. ano mus US
fail to concentrate as they snould 70
gain a victory. Seldom, indeed, wouid
Evans be beaten by any player IN the
west but many a time he has snatcneo
victory out of defeat because ms OPP
moments imagined that he was about TO
perform the miraculous, and as q con-
sequence their own game SUFFERED.
Several western golfers have told me
that the many brilliant ROUNDS accred-
tied to the western amateur champion
and the knowledge that he Is capable
of many others of the same stamp put
them under a handicap before they
start and no matter what game they
may have on tap or wnat starr ar .n =,
ways seems a long ways on. An In
stance Of this might be cited In the
case of Ned Sawyer. who held long
lead over Evans In the western anna
teur event. Until the last nine holes
Evans was trailing and then he came
with an oldtime rush and won.
= few weeks ago Sawyer and. Evans
,,,ayed at q western club, and this time
found the western champion no less
than down the first round. He later
became 9 holes behind, but starting a
brilliant streak he reduced the lead un-
til he was beaten by only and 1.
Sawyer failed to make par on half a
dozen holes which were of the simplest
nature so far as par was concerned, and
waited until Evans had played all the
good golf out of his system instead of
going right after him and using up ex-
ira energy. il necessary. to gain the
victory.
But what will Evans do at Detroit
| The first sure bet fcourse is that he
Will qualify. The statement seems
simple enough. but how few Of the
other $50 or SO who. will play could
fhaye that said about them? I would
not be surprised at all to see Evans
lead the field. for he will undoubtedly
| feel like extending himself to gain the
honors. especially when the champion
| ship is played in the west The fact
\ that all the matches are to be at thir-
/ ty-six holes this year appeals to me to
greatly favor the chances Of this well
known golfer. In the past Evans has
been defeated through careIessness
ofttimes holding an opponent toe