The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-10
DEFEATS GARDENER IN
A SENSATIONAL MATCH
Contest is Won by Evans in
the Final Rounds of
Play.
10000 WITNESS CONTEST
Which is Played on Merton Club
Course in the City Of
Philadelphia.

- AsEcciATEo FHtfE'
PHILADELPHIA. Pa. Sept. o.
The greatest honors in the history Of
modern golf fell to Charles Evans.
Jr., of the Edgewater Club OF Chi
cago, when he defeated his fellow
townsman, robert 4. Gardener Of
the Hinsdale Club up and to play
in the final round of the National
Amateur Golf Championship turna-
ment at the Merton Club course here
today,
Already the holder of the open
championship, which he won at Min
neapolis in June he is the first play
er in either America or England to
capture both national titles in the
same year. Harold Hillon and John
Ball, English amateurs. won both til
ties, but both in different seasons.
while In this country Francis 0uimet
and Jerome Travers have won dou-
bic honors but at different times.
The setting for this most extra
ordinary of all golfing feats was
fully worthy OF the event for the
largest gallery which has witnessed
an American golf match since Ouimet
defeated Ray and yardin in the ia
nous play off at Brookline in 1913
was present.
There was hardly cloud in the
sky and only a slight wind blow
ing when the opponents teed of for
their thirty-six hole match at 10 a.
IN. and the conditions improved II
anything during the afternoon round.
There was a gallery of fully 5000
along the course when the players
drove Off and it increased all day I'M
til there was close TO 10000 present
for the finish OIL the thirty-third
green.
Not the least inconspicuous mem-
Der of the gallery was the mother of
the winner who followed the golfing
! fortunes of her son throughout the
entire thirty-three hole battle. She
shared in the congratulations and at
tendance that fell to the lot Of her
boy when he was presented with the
gold championship medal by Frank
l.. Woodward, president of the Unit
ed States Golf Association on the
green where he clincned the match
along with Gardener. Cochrane and
Guilford who received runner-up and
semi-final medals respectively. AS is
usually in a contest where two ex-
perts meet for stake of great hon
or the match was a mixture of cham
pionship and mediocre golf particu-
larry in the forenoon round. After
luncheon the pair played game
which was little short of perfection
until Gardener cracked under the
strain after the twenty-nlnth hole.
Gardener reduced his opponents lead
to one hole at the twenty-seventh
green and was playing great golf
sinking a three-foot putt for a two
after Evans had dropped his iron
drive within FIVE feet of the pin and
won the hole 2 to 3.
Going the twenty-sixth Evans
pulled his tee shot into trap while
Gardener was well down the fair
way. Evans was forced to play his
second short and his third was on the
green but twenty-five yards from the
pin. Gardeners second was only
about three yards nearer the hole
and It appeared that each would take
two puts, Gardener thus sQuaring
the match. When Evans sank his
long putt Gardener saw his chance Of
winning the hc.e and squaring the
match vanish. He managed to hold
Evans to a half and also halved the
twenty-ninth in par tours. 1t was
his final fash for he went to pieces
on the next two holes and the match
was no longer in doubt.