New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-30
Exams Leads Golfers
For Thnty-six Holes

that, with SO. He sank a twenty-foot
putt fol on the short tenth and
got a par or the eleventh, 80 for
eleven holes. four strokes under par.
The course record seemed at his
mercy then. and big George Turnbull,
Reds partner, kept patting the little
man on the back and telling him just
to keep going along those lines, the
rest would be easy.
But then followed disaster. for the
Briton failed 10 run down a wee putt
Of eighteen inches on the long twelfth
and took 4 8. This seemed to have
fatal effect, for at least half dozen
times thereafter Reid was short on
his puts, missing on the fifteenth,
sixteenth ard seventeenth.
No man knows tonight, however,
what tomorrow holds. For Reid is
still figured ss Chicks most dangerous
rival, with jim Barnes and Bob
PEBBLES looming in the background as
possibilities. Clouds obscured the sun
throughout most of the day. and to-
night there is every indication of wet
weather for tomorrow, when the final
thrty-six holes will be played.
Friends of Evans claim that the
genial Chick is great mud horse and
that heavy going will simply add to
his chances. However that may be. the
Western amateur champion was a
happy man in the clubhouse. after 1t
was all over, and retired early to pre-
pare for the crucial test.
far-driving game, aided by n
deadliness in approaching that rarely
left him more than an easy putt for
the hole, enabled Evans TO bring in
his record rounds. From almost every
tee he was out-driving Otto Hack
barth, his partner, and when the ball
did err from the straight line Chick
was generally able 10 Offset this by
laying up to within a few feet Of the
hole.
On the ninth hole, in the morning,
he brought off one Of the most sensa-
tional shots Of the day. His second
shot carried his ball into the grove
of trees TO the right Of the fairway
and about 100 yards from the green.
Up to that point the Chicago amateur
was four under par and the big gal
lery that trooped in his wake over the
rolling hills groaned in sympathy. The
situation held no terrors for Evans, for
with an iron he hooked the ball out
clearly, pulling il around tree trunk
and laying it within six feet Of the cup.
Then he sank the ball for a par four
and was 82 at the turn.
Chick Holes Long One.
He made several slips on the next
three holes, taking three puts on the
short tenth and needing a six on the
long twelfth, after failing 20 run down
a six-footer on the green. Chick picked
up stroke on the 475-yard thirteenth,
where, after being in the rough on his
second. he whipped the ball out with
a perfect iron shot, and brought up on
the edge of the green. To make things
better, Evans holed the long putt, and
as il trickled slowly for the cup, Chick,
sure that it was going in, trotted along
beside the ball. as though TO show il
the way. As it fell in, he picked it out
and did little jig on the green, while
the gallery laughed and applauded.
For the rest of the round, except on
the fifteenth, where he needed three
puts and dropped a stroke, Evans went
along in par figures. On the home hole
he sliced his drive to the rough, but a
brilliant recovery landed the ball some
fifteen feet from the pin and he got his
four there.
More Brilliant in Afternoon.
In the afternoon the Edgewater am
ateur's game was even more scintillat-
ing. On the tricky third, with the green
on the crest of a sloping hill, he ran
down a long, cuving, downhill putt
for .. The fourth was a par 3, and
then followed q string Of five As, uring-