Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-02

Chick" Evans won the national open
championship with a score OF 80 TOT
the seventy-two holes. This was the
news which, flashed over the wire from
Minneapolis. brought joy and not
great amount of surprise to Evans
numerous friends, scattered through
out the country. When Evans led the
field the first day many predicted that
the bIow-up was due and that an ANA
teur could not expect to sustain the
pace set with his scores of 20 and 90,
but those who know the brilliant Chi
cago boy and his talent for medal play
were firm in their belief that he would,
with the lead given him on the open
ing day, give any pro in the country
a hard fight for the cha mpionship. Jock
Hutchinson, the genial pro of the Allie
gheny Country Club Of Pittsburgh,
Evans followers when he turned in
a score for the last eighteen holes OF
6S, lettering the mark previously set
by Evans by one stroke. But the pro
earlier rounds were not good enough
to wrest premier laurels from the
Edgewater man.
Chick" started his golhng career on
the old course of the EdgeWater Siuo
of Chicago, as a caddie, but becoming
very much interested in the game.
managed to get hold of some old clubs
and was permitted to play over the
course Throughout his interscholastic
DAYS Evans shone as a particularly
brilliant player. and many h we're .he
star in national golf He won the west
ern interscholastic championship two
straight years in 1907 and 1908. ana
was runner-up to Gordon Copeland tne
YEAR prior to his initial victory. He
won the western Junior championship
three times, capturing the big cup
offered for a three-time winner, out
right. At sixteen years OF age ne won
cago and subsequently won 1t twice
again, winning the cup given 10
three-time victor.
In his first big championship, the
national amateur of 1909 at the Chicago
Golf Club of Wheaton, Ill. he went to
the semi-fnaI round, only falling be-
fore the strong attack and accurate
iron shots of the veteran H Chandler
Eean. That year he won the western
amateur championship at the Home
wood Club. defeating his old rival, Al
bert Seckel, in the final by one up. AT
this stage of his career Evans was at.
tending school and had a great deal OF
ments played in the middle west In
1910 he threw a bomb into the ranks
of the professionals by winning the
qualifying medal in the western open
championship and subsequently de-
feating George Simpson for the cham
pionship itself. That year was the
only time the open championship ever
was competed at match play. and Evans
beat the best Of the western pros be-
fore defeating Simpson IS.
Tn 1910 Evans his way to the
semi final round of the amateur at the
Rrookline Country Club of Boston and
lost to William C. FoWnes. who won
the event by one up. This defeat con-
tinued the long series of Evans semi
Anal losses He stood on the sixteenth
tee against Fownes, two up and three
to play His ball was on the green
thirty feet away and his opponents
ball lay in the trap short of the green.
Fownes got nicely out of the trouble,
but the shot was nothing extraordi-
nary Evans ran his approach putt up
to within three feet and then missed
rood putt of ten feet to win the hole.
Fownes won the seventeenth hole and
the eighteenth with a fine brassle shot
to the pin and Evans chance was
gone for another year.
The next year he was beaten badly
by Fred Herreshof at Apawamis. the
year Hilton of England beat Herreshof
started well in 1912. winning the
western amateur at Denver from
Warren Wood. always one of his most
formidable Western rivals. In the
National Amateur held at the Chicago
Golf Club that year. he tied with Hilt
ton for the low-medaIist position and
won his way to the final round, thus
destroying his semi-fnal hoodoo, but
was forced to succumb in the final
round before the uncanny brilliancy of
Jerome D. Travers. who won his third
championship from Evans. In 1913 he
had no big championships. His west
ern title was wrested from him by
Warren Wood. who won the title over
his home course of the Homewood Club.
defeating e. P. GNed) Allis, the sen
sational little Milwaukeean, in the
anal In this championship Allis in
turn defeated Robert A. Gardner, pres
emit national amateur champion. and
Evans, besides getting a on the first
hole at Homewood. a distance of S06
wards He was beaten in the semi
final of the amateur blue ribbon event
by John Anderson, the stocky little
player from Boston. Nineteen fourteen
was his best year. He won the west
ern amateur over the course OF the