The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-01
GREAT MATCHES ARE
FEATURE AT GOLF
d, f.. Sawyer and Chick Evans Have
Hard Battle In National Champion
ship Matchcs-f'arttcipan Writes
Exclusive Story for Richmond VIZ
ginian Readers
BY JOHN G. ANDERSON.

Detroit. Aug 31.-Sixteen up with
EIGHT TO go is the story In nut
shell for today's play at the Amateur
Golf Championship at Detroit,
All Indications seem to point to
eight crack golfers being left in the
running when the mosquitoes begin
their nightly maraudtng around the
eighteenth hole. Although the draw
seemed to be one-sided, because the
upper half had more Of the wel-known
strong players in it, yet the wedding
I out process will leave a group on
either side which would shape up as
equal. This will be all the more true
when the ni-finals are reached.
Golf has It's upsets day by day, but
1T would not be surprising to see
Nelson Whitney battling with Francis
hOumet in the one half and Jerome
1Travers trying TO tuck the scalp or
! Ned Sawyer under his belt.
/ Mention of d. e. Sawyer recalls the
statement made yesterday of the
probable outcome OF the match be-
tween Chick Evans and Sawyer
+ The result justified predictions and
the margin, SIX and five, was sweet
! pleasure to the fine Chicago amateur
who for years has been waiting until
/ he could take keen revenge upon the
effervescent Evans. No amateur and
! few professionals could have gained
THE award in the battle against
Sa wyer, for his game was well-nigh
perfect He played the course in one
under par in the morning and was
about as good in the afternoon. Evans
did not play badly. but when he did
lose il was because of his taking an
extra putt. Once or twice he got into
trouble off his drive which cost him
the hole but 1T would be only fair
TO both to say that his fine golf was
Eoversha bowed by the brilliant play OF
his opponent. who never faltered Tor
A minute The sympathy of the
gathering was all with Evans because
he was fighting hard to stay in the
lists and at last win. but he will have
to walt still another year before his
chance will come again.
/ | suppose that a number OF golfers
grin when they see that Mr.. Jerome
Travers made a new association rec
hord and won by the wide margin or
ia up and 10 to play. MIR. Crump
Iplayed a poor game and was as glad
as his opponent when the affair was
lover. | do not know what possessed
Jerry. but think il was the desire to
see the finish of the Sawyer Evans
match. and perhaps take a peep at
the Marston- Guilford contest. whose
winner he was to meet on the morrow,
or ii may be that he was schooling
himself to pitiless play with that OBJ
session of victory which Is his and
his almost alone.
StandIsh In Fine Match.
The finest match perhaps WAS the
struggle between w. F. Fownes ana
/ James Standish Jr., the pride of De-
troit golfers The pittsburg golfer
was three down at lunch time, but
played much better in the afternoon
ana squared away for the home hole
all even The perfect threes which
/ each PLAYER got sent the large gal
lery trooping along to the extra. Here
! the better man at that hole undohht T.
edly won After fine drives, and for
/ Standish%a poor second, which left
| him fifty wards from the green, while
/ ,Fownes was on. their thirds found
| Standish six feet from the hole and
/ Fownes four. The Detroiter holed
his and Fownes missed, | talked with
F'ownes afterward and he said that
/ he did not lose the match at the first
extra. but rather at the sixteenth
where he missed n two-foot putt.
! which would have left him one up
and have given him the match in
light of their scores. 1t was grand
/ match to win. That was the only
extra hole contest OF the day although
Rob Gardiner had "A near squeak in
his match. winning on the last pit.
The Fasteners did rather well for
all won their matches except in the
case of Guiford and W. G. Gardiner.
of Buffalo. who had the misfortune
! TO be drawn against Fasteners Kerr
/ did fine hit OF business when he put
Dudley Nudge, the winner of the
! qualifying medal. out of the running
while Gardiner White performed mob
~ in finishing Paul Hunter. The most
speCuiations were made concerning
the game which Guilford would put
up against Marston. The long drives
| was hitting them a mile. as usual.
| but not always on the course A lost
| ball. the first one have heard about
here, proved disastrous. so Guilford
said. for 1t came at a time when he
was going strong. Marston must be
congratulated on putting out OF tho