The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-01
BVANSPUTOUT
OF TITLE GOLF
BY AN OLD FOE
Ned Sawyer Eliminates the
Western ChampiOn--Other
Stars Meet Defeat.
FOWNES, GUILFORD,
BYERS. JUDGE LOSE

DETROIT. Aug. 31.-some mighty golf
ers went down to defeat In the first
round OF the national amateur cham
7pionship on the links OF the Country
Club OF Detroit to-day. and the might
lest of them was Chick Evans, the first
OF the triumvirate to fall. He was beaten
soundly by his old rival and fellow Chi
cagoan. Ned Sawyer, the margin OF vic
tory being 6 up and ) to play. Two for
mer champions were beaten, Eben NJ.
Ryers and William c. Fownes, Jr. The
two Hunters, Paul and Robert, were
eliminated. the far hitting Jesse Gull
ford fell by the wayside and Dudley
Nudge, the medallist, also found a place
among the losers.
All kind of matches were played to-
day, good, bad and indifferent, and they
ranged in closeness, or lack OF it. all the
way from the almost appalling victory
Of Jerome d. Travers over George A.
Crump. the Philadelphia veteran. by IL
up and 10 to play. to a thrilling struggle
between Jimmy Standish and Fownes,
which Standish won on the thirty
seventh green. In between were such
matches as Francis Ouimet's victory
over w. Hamilton Gardner I'd Of Buffalo
BY s I'D and I TO play. Gardner Whites
notable performance in disposing of Paul
Hunter by Z up and 5 to play. Max Mar
ston's defeat OF Jesse Guilford by a 3
and 2 margin and the narrow escape OF
Robert Gardner, who had all he could do
to beat L. L. Bredin, a home player. BY
I UP.
Crowd Chooses Sawyer Match.
As far as the gallery was concerned
there was only one match to-day-that
between Sawyer and Evans-and mos;
OF the other golfers played unattended
until Sawyer had downed the Western
champion. Then the spectators flocked
to the other matches, winding up event.
ually behind Standish and Fownes
during the latter part Of their extra hole
journey.
For almost half the way the struggle
between Sawyer and Evans was as
pretty and close a one as could be de-
sired. but then Chick broke, and Sawyer
after finishing the morning round by
winning the last two holes. won the first
three in the afternoon and piled up such
q big lead that for the rest of the way
Chicks case vas hopeless.
"A typical Evans-Sawyer match, with
a . and | finish. was the Western
ers predicted before their two favorttcs
set out, and they kept making the same
prediction up to the seventeenth hole In
the morning round. Up to that point the
prediction wa justified, for both played
great golf and had never been more
than n hole apart. In fact most OF the
time they had been fighting along on
even terms. There had been a number OF
Interestingly played holes, such rs the
seventh. where Chick Knocked Sawyers
ball in and the latter won the hole. and
a fine 3 by Evans at the tenth. They
were all even at the turn, and both
were out in 80.
Sawyer Sinks IS Footer.
Chicks good 8 put him ahead
on the tenth, but he missed a
putt on the eleventh and lost the
advantage he had gained a mo
ment before. He halved the twelfth
by getting down a good putt after a
poor approach and won the thirteenth
in 4 10 8. That put 1t up TO Sawyer
and the grim visaged Wheaton golfer
rose to the occasion by hammering down
q thirty-fve foot putt for a 2 on the
fourteenth green.
Two halved holes followed, and ther
came the break. With only two holes
left of the morning round, Chick pro
ceeded to miss a putt on the seven
teenth green and was l down. Thai
wasn't so bad, but he made 1t worse b,
failing to get his tee shot up the bis
bank In front OF the home green. Saw
yer won the hole 8 to 4 and with I'M
journey half over was 2 up. Sawyer
score was ~, a stroke under par. an
Chicks was -. The cards:
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