The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-09
LEADS
 CHAMPION IN
 GOLF FINALS
Three Up on Gardner, Title Holder, at End of Eigh-
 teen Holes.

Philadelphia, Sept. 9.-In today's match for the championship, Charles H. Evans, of Chicago. was three up at the end of the eighteenth. due to his perfect golfing, on the two short holes and the cratic putting of Rob- ert A. Gardner, of Chicago, the title holder. Gardner fell off in this de- partment of the game markedly as compared with his work on the green earlier in the tournament.
 Gardner and Evans teed off in the morning round shortly after 10 o. clock. The weather was perfect.
 First ho1e-335 yards, par four. Evans put his second four feet from the hole and sank the ball for a bir- die. Gardner took five. His approach was over and his third left him sev- en foot putt which he missed. Evans 3, Gardner 5. Evans one up.
 Second hole-513 yard, par five. Both were on in three and took two puts. Halves in five.
 Third hole-427 yards. par four. Both drive perfect balls 250 yards down the fairway. Evans was away and played his second to a trap to the left of the green. Gardner was on in two. Evans clipped out of trap dead to the hole. Gardner's approach putt hit Evans ball and ran over the hole two feet. The hole was halved in par four. Evans one up.
 Fourth hole-355 yards, par four. Evans drove his first out off bounds over a fence on the right. Gardner's S drive was 250 yards down the fair way. Evans second was in the rough. He pitched his third out the rough and landed it on the green 140 yards away, carrying bad gully and a big sand trap in order to get home. Gard ner's two, the latter won, five to six and the match was all square.
 Fifth hole-580 yards, par four. Hitting in a steady head wind, Evans outdrove Gardner 20 yards. Both had beautiful second shots, just short of the brook guarding the green. Gard ner topped his third into the brook and picked out for the loss a stroke. Evans approach landed on a fan mound at the left of the green. Evans overplayed the hole to the edge of the brook Gardners fifth was five feet to the left of the hole. while tEvans laid his dead. Gardner missed his putt and Evans holed, winning 6-7, Evans one up.
 Sixth hole-420 yards-par four. Both were on the green with two. Ev- ans being 10 feet from the hole; Gard ner on for edge. Evans took three butts while Gardner was down in two, winning four to five. Match all square.
 Seventh hole-s95 yards-par three. Both tee shots were in trouble. Gard ner's in a trap and Evans in the rough. Evans played out of the trap five feet from the hole and sunk his putt. Gardner's was 12 feet from the pin and he took two butts. Evans won. three to four, and was one up.
 Eighth hole-35O yards-par four. They halved the soil in par fours. Gardner's third was dead to the pin from a bad lie in the marsh. Evans one up.
 Ninth hole-150 yards-par three. Gardner sliced his iron into the woods and his second ran over the green in a trap. His third was short and he conceded the hole to Evans, whose sec ond laid beside the cup. Evans two up.
 Morning round, out:
 Evans ..3t5 46 5 3 4 3-39 Gardner .....5 4 2 4 4 4 5-43
 At the end of the first IS holes Ev- ans was three up on Gardner.