New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-10
Chick Exams Has One Head on Which
To Place Two Golf Title CrOWnS

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Offset this advantage By steadier play
With his irons and By fire recoveries
when he slipped
In the big gallery there were more
tkan two thousand women, VINO raced
and rushed up and down nil TO follow
the play. Among these there we're two
who were under the heaviest sort OF
strain. but who followed each shot OF
the day. One was Mrs. Evans, the
mother Of the new champion; the other
was Mrs. Gardner. the wife OF the
beaten player. Both were from Chit
opgo. but their sympathies were wide
apart in this contest.
Mrs. Evans has been following Chick
faithfully for seven years, and she mad
Known what IL was too many times be-
fore TO share the heartache with her
candidate for glory. II was a new eX-
pcrience for Mrs. Gardner, who sut-
fcred the keenest disappointment, but
who took her husbands defeat too well
20 let him know the nerve strain she
had been under throughout the match.
Mrs. Evans saw her boy come 70 the
semi-hnals at Brookline in 1910, only
20 lose a match where ne stood up
and 20 play against Bill FOwnes. She
saw him beaten in the final -ound
against Travers in 1912, and fall once
more in the semi-fnal round at Gar
den City in 1913. But to-day more than
erased all these sombre memories, FOR
when Chick stood up or the thirty
third green he had more than evened
VI for the trials and disappointments
OF other years.
Putting in Doubt.
a. L oil g
o'clock il was a question from the
start as 10 how Evans would use ms
putter under the strain Of match play.
There was no question as 70 the bet
ter golfer up TO the green. But
Gardner had proved too often before
his fine gameness and amazing re-
source under fire and for three days
Gardner had been putting Ike a ira
Wis or Trayers Of old.
Evans had beaten his rival ten or
twelve times before this season IN
exhibition matches, but the hnal
round of championship was another
matter: Gardner had two amateur
titles back Of him and Evans had yet
% reach his first. But Chick got the
Jump on the fist hole. and was never
down to his man through the double
round thereafter.
After fine drives Evans dropped a
mashie shot within five feet OF the
cup. while Gardner was well beyond,
taking a 70 Chicks 3.
The next two holes we're halved IN
par golf. but Chick slipped at the
fourth. where his drive went out Of
bounds, and his third found trouble.
Both made a half Of the long fifth,
Gardner popping his third 20 the wa
ter and Evans overplaying by sixty
feet. But Chick won, 6 70 7. 1t was
al the sixth that Chick took three
puts from ten feet away, losing a
hole he might have won. but he
Jumped two holes ahead At the short
seventh and the shorter ninth, with
par threes. proving again that his iron
play was superior Evans was out in
80. with Gardner out in ~. At the
tenth hole Gardner caught the trap,
but a partial stymie saved him an
other loss. A. the 335-ysrd eleventh
Bob drove within six feet of the cup,
while Evans was hole high. but OF
the green in the rough. Chick shipped
back nicely. sank his putt and got a
three.
Chick Loses Twelfth.
A badly pulled second 70 the brook
cost Chick the twelfth, and after halv-
ing the thirteenth, where Gardner
missed another five-footer, Chick
wrecked the fourteenth by playing two
shots in a bunker and then picking up.
But he steadied down again and fin
ished "A, "a.
II was at the 2l0-yard seventeenth
that Evans played one Of the greatest
shots Of the tournament. This hole
calls for long carry across ravine'
with trouble to either side OF narrow
green. There was a young gale blowing
at the time into the face Of the tee.
Chick used a brassie. and by holding
the ball low. with the slightest sug-
gestion of a hook, held the line against
the gale and landed ten feet from the
cup.
Jerry Travers was standing directly
back OF Evans az the shot was played.
81 believe" said Jerry, that IS the
finest wooden club shot | ever saw. |
never believed it possible 70 get the
ball close, with the cup so close 70 the
trap and the wind blowing as II IS.
The shot was good enough 20 win when
Gardner hooked far into trouble on me
right after taking out his cleek. ms
nut him . down. and when Chick won
the eighteenth in par. he finished the
morning round 3 up.
Starts with Rush.
Gardner started the afternoon round
with a rush. He won the first hole
with a fine chip shot IN when Evans
over-approeched 20 the sand. At the
5i3.yard second, uphill all the way,
10th were on in .. through fine shots
and a favOring wind, and each was
down in 1 under par. But Daruher NOT
the third with another par when ChIcS
pushed his iron shot 20 trap, and
Rob was then but 1 down and coming
stronger every moment, -.
The next hole was halved when both
sliced their seconds TO trapA at the
right Of the green. but Gardner won
~ dfth when Evans was bunkered
from the tee. -, hol.
,.sJ ard In place Of having romp
abcad was in for the hardest sort OF