New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-01

Il was Chicks tournament fate to
meet such & test in his first match. He
net golfer no man in the field could
have stopped as he played against the
Wheaton genius. Chick fought one Of
ri, best fights, but he was doomed.
There was no opening through which
he could make start. For sixteen
holes Chick furnished his best fight
70, sixteen holes in the forenoon he
suspped blow for blow and met the
lightning pace. But the heavy burden
soon began TO tell, and at the end Of
sixteen holes Chick had fred his sun
set gun and had run shy of ammuni-
non. and it vas only question OF how
far he could last.
SAWYER. playing every club with skill
and confidence, facing each delicate
situation with rare GOODNESS and steady
Judgment. refused 70 wsver. 1t was
merely question OF which would crack
f-st-and SAWYER refused TO bulge an
inch. He started fast and he travelled
faster as the match progressed. And
when Chick al last began TO- slip and
fade after sixteen holes before the
deadly pace OF his rival, Sawyer, jump
ing az IN opportunity, Teeled on hve
successive wins before Evans could re-
gain his balance and buck up before
such 3 rushing attack The par Of the
course is 73-and there are few harder.
From the back tees Sawyer travelled
the first eighteen holes in y, even Is,
and against this shooting II is no great
wonder that Evans fell before the test.
The one weakness that beat Evans
was inability 10 get his chip shots close
70 the pin. This put heavy putting
strain upon him. and he was thus
forced 70 play his weakness against
Sawyer's strength This doesn't mean
that Evans played bad golf. he was
around in "a, good enough to lead al
most any other rival, but IN the alter
noon, when he started 2 down, be
slipped badly before he could make
another stand.
In the forenoon round Sawyer at
tached the lead at the second hole,
where he secured fine e. The third
was halved in a good par 4. Chick
squared the match at the fourth with
a 9 and took the lead at the fifth with
another fine 3, roping a nashie niblick
shot 20 within two feet Of the pin.
Both hammered out As on the 430-yard
sixth-and az the seventh there came
the turning point Of the match. II
was here that the tide started against
Chick, bringing the break upon which
so many hard matches turn.
This hole is only 145 yards long.
Evans's tee shot found the trap in
front o. the green. Sawyer's mashie
trickled TO the trap just beyond.
Evans, playing out, trimmed the cup
for a Q with one Of the best shots OF
the day, his ball finally sliding some
two feet away. Sawyer was twelve feet
over in .. and his out for a 3 slipped
by the cup and laid Evans q partial
stymie Chick had perhaps three-quar-
tiers Of the cup to putt at, with Saw
yer's ball only three inches from the
rim. But in place Of making sure that
his tap went 10 the right side Of the
cup, Evans thumped his shot against
Sawyer's ball and bumped il into the
cup. So in place Of winning, rs he
might have done, or halving, as he
should have done, az the very worst,
Chick lost the hole. He was then all
square in place of being 2 up.
This fatal judgment was the turning
point, and from that spot on Chick
found il impossible TO establish an
other lead and shake his man loose.
They travelled side by side with an
average Of As on through the ninth.
and then on through the sixteenth. But
at the seventeenth Chick began to slip
and he finished the forenoon round z
down.
In the afternoon Sawyer started at
the same fast clip with a run OF 4s'