Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-22
CHICK EVANS MOST FEARED
OF ALL THE WESTERN GOLFERS
Expert Anderson Dissects Chance Of ANA
teurs From Other Sections In Coming
Battle for National Honors at Detroit.

I cheaply. Every round he plays finds
| him letting up just trifle on two or
three holes or starting while not
primed up mentally for the fray. The
! serious shock and then down to the
golf of which he is capable. But at
times he gets caught, as happened last
year at Ekwanok, for golfer who is a
good fighter though not so good a
player will win as often as not
The thirty-six hole route, therefore,
will give him more time to get started
and more opportunities for brilliant re-
covery and play. II the draw favors
Evans, in that he is drawn and plays
in more than two rounds against west
ern golfers, I believe that he will be a
player who Is to be feared this year as
never before.
There are others to be dreaded by
the eastern golfers who will assail the
Detroit course. Ned Sawyer has come
into oldtime form. which made him at
one time one Of the most talked of
players in the land. In 1905 Sawyer
became a flnalist at Wheaton. being
beaten by H. Chandler Egan when the
latter was at his best, but since that
year Sawyer gained steadiness to add
to his fine temperament for match
play. His game. II he had sufficient
having very low mark on the United
States Golf Association handicap sheet.
Then there is ]. D. Standish, jr., Of the
Detroit club. Fasteners would be
prone to claim him as their own, for
he spent four years at Williams Col
llege and three more at Harvard Uni
versity, but since Detroit is his home
the privilege will have to be denied.
tough contest finds him willing and
game. On his home course, where he
has made many excellent scores, he
may be dangerous for a time. His
name is mentioned because l believe
he is steady player who has reserve
power.
The list Of westerners who have a
chance at the title Is not short. There
are others quite capable of putting
they have a momentary confidence in
their own golfing ability. However.
most OF them have shown in the past
only the brilliant medal play rounds
which have made their names Illus
trious fors the time being and have not
demonstrated a lasting ability at Sc
we're match play. This Is no indict-
ment at all Of the westerners, but Is
due to the fact that there are fewer
attend in a body than are held in the
east I am speaking not OF the Chi
cago district particularly. but of all
the middle west and south. This Is the
IGeorgians and many others congregate
and discuss the question Of what helps
q match player. In the east the crack
golfers enter many Of the invitation
tournaments which are held each week
of the. season, and they find the con-
slant hammering at ones opponent a
great help to the golffng system.
Ranked in the order of their chances,
provided all mentioned enter. 1 would,
of course, place Charles Evans, jr., at
number 1, D. e. Sawyer in second
place ands the others following some
, what after this fashion: e. P. AlIis,
! r. A. Gardner, William Rautenbusch.
whose name. by the way. do not find
in the first list as given out by the
committee on handicaps, but whose
great play in the national open last
year at Chicago, when he finished
eleventh. and his record in the Chicago
city championship just finished surely
deserves national rating: Donald Ed
| wards, H G.. Legg. p NJ Hunter, J.
B. Schlottman, Mason Phelps. w. I.
Rowland, jr.. and Joe Bole. Little has
been heard from Albert Seckel and
Fraser Hale. but IL they enter they
should occupy fairly high place in
/! the standings
There are several players who will
have to be considered as championship
possibilities who renresent the south
and Tar west. besides two others in the