Grand Forks herald., 1916-07-01
wins IN
GOLF: : TOURNEY
Jack Hutchinson, Profes,
sional, Only Two Points
Behind the Winner.

Minneapolis, Minn.. July IAN
amateur, Charles (Chick) Evans. Jr.,
Of the Edgewater club. Chicago, four
times western amateur golf champion.
and once winner of tho western open
title. added to his laurers yesterday
by winning the national open golf
championship title at the Minikahda
links here with total score of 2S6
for the ~ holes of championship
play.
Thus. for the third time in four
years premier honors have been car
ried from the annual tournament by
an amateur, and this time by the best
score since the formation of the or
gantzation in 1894.
George Sargent. Minneapolis, won
the open championship at Englewood,
N. j., in 1909. with the best previous
score which was 29O.
Evans won the title by a margin
Of but two strokes for Jack Hutchin-
son, a professional Of Pittsburgh. Pa,
by clipping one stroke from the course
record Of 60, set by Evans Thursday,
turned in card Of 8s for the after
noon round yesterday, which gave him
total Of 28S. ]. Barnes, Philadelphia.
with 290. J. M. Barnes, Philadelphia.
ploASSoAOIhls was lLllIu Will GOV. TdI
for the course is ~ and the course
record was 10 until lowered a stroke
Thursday by Evans. The distance of
the course is 6,150 yards.
Evans, who is credited with holding
more course records than any other
amater, played consistently and in
good form yesterday. His drives
went long against a rather stiff wind
that swept the course in the afternoon
q nd kf In T.
turned in card Of 147 for the SO
holes. which, with his 139 Of Thurs
day brought him victory.
Thursday night it was feared that
Evans would fall down on the short
stroke game yesterday particularly II
he got a bad start. However the
opposite was true. He played the first
nine holes Of the morning in one over
par. He had difficulty at the fourth
three puts when he had an easy four
in sight. The large gallery which
followed felt that the break had come.
But Evans recovered and from there
in played we'll. He experienced the
same trouble at the same hole in the
afternoon taking four puts.
The sensational finish of Hutchin-
son which gave him second place and
first prize money as Evans is ineligi-
All q Caou plAAO was LAc
ing feature Of the days play. He
equalled par in the morning round
and bettered it by four strokes in the
afternoon. He missed two easy puts,
which would have tied him with
Evans In the afternoon. On the third
hole Hutchinson was fraction of an
inch short on a 12-inch putt, and
carelessness cost him a stroke on the
ninth, when eight inches from the
hole. He neglected to take range and
a small twfg on the line turned the
ball from its course
Barnes had an excellent chance
Thursday morning when he finished
the round with II, which placed him
just three strokes behind Evans for
the first 81 holes. but he played be-
low form on the last round, finishing
with "a.
Otto Hackbarth, Cincinnati profess
sional, eQualled tho record set Thurs
day by Evans by making a 50 yes
terday morning.
Sargent, Gilbert Nichols Of Great
Neck, L. l.. and Wilfrid Reid Of WILL
mington. Del. divided fourth, NTH
and sixth honors with 2s3. Reid,
who was only three strokes behind
Evans at the end Of the first day Of
championship play; started badly yes
terday. taking - for the first nine
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