Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-10
''CH|CK" EVANS BEST
Greatest Honor in Golf Falls to
EdgeWater Player.
BEATS GARDNER IN FINALS
Chicagoan First Man to Win Both
Open and Amateur Titles in
Same Year.
BEATS GARDNER IN FINALS

PHILADELPHIA, september Sine
greatest honors in the history of
modern golf fell to Charles Evans. jr,
of the Edgewater Club of Chicago when
he defeated his fellow townsman. Rob-
ert A. Gardner, of the Hinsdale Club, 4
up and to play, in the final round Of
the national amateur golf champion
ship tournament at the Merton Club
course here today.
Already the holder of the open cham
pionship, which he won at Minneapolis
| in June. he is the first player in either
America or England to capture both
national titles in the same year. Harold
Hilton and John Ball, English anna
teurs, won both titles, but both in diff
ferent seasons. while in this country
, Francis Oujmet and Jerome Travers
| have won double honors. but at differ
ent times.
AS is usually the case in a contest
where two experts meet for stake OF
great honor. the match was mixture
of championship and mediocre golf,
particularly in the forenoon round.
After luncheon the pair played a game
which was little short of perfection. I'M
til Gardner cracked under the strain
after the twenty-ninth hole. Gardner
| reduced his opponents lead to one hole
at the twentyseventh green, and was
playing great golf, sinking a three-foot
| putt for a after Evans had dropped
his iron drive within five feet of the
pin and won the hole 2 to 3.
Going to the twenty-eighth, Evans
pulled his tee shot into a trap, while
+ Gardner was well down the fairway.
Evans was forced to play his second
short and his third was on the green.
but twenty-five yards from the pin.
Gardner's second was on about three
yards nearer the hole, and it appeared
that each would take two puts, Card
ner thus squaring the match. When
Evans sank his long putt however, and
the gallery went wild, Gardner saw his
chance of winning the hole and Squar-
ing the match vanish. He managed to
hold Evans to half and also halved
the tWenty-ninth in par fours 1t was
his final fash, for he went to pieces on
the next two holes, and the match was
no longer in doubt.
Started in Style.
The match started in championship
style. with the open champion laying
his second shot dead to the pin and
sinking his putt for ga bird. Gard
ner hit his approach too strong and was
over the green. His chip shot left him
a seven-foot putt, which he was unable
to hole.
On the long second the players found
stiff wind to drive against, and it took
both two long woods and a three-quar-
ters mashie to reach, They only need
ed the regulation two puts to halve
the hole in par fives
Each ball rolled $50 yards from the
fairway on the third. Evans played a
push shot into trap. while Gardner 8
approach was on the edge. Evans put
up cloud of sand and dust and the ball
fell about twenty feet short and rolled
up dead Gardner had forty-foot putt.
which he laid dead. They halved in
four.
In trying hard for a good position for
his approach to the fourth, Evans ball
bounced over the fence into a cornf1eld,
out of bounds His second drive was
in the rough, while Gardner was well
down the middle. Evans played diff
ficult mashie over rough and traps to
the uphill green, but the ball did not
hold and ran to the edge of the rough
from where he took three more to go
down. giving him six for the hole.
rolled into pit at the right of the
green. He was just on with his third,
| but took only two puts and won the
hole.
To the long fifth Evans outdrove
Gardner by twenty yards. Both played
their seconds safe. Gardner topped his
chip shot into the brook and lifted for
loss of one stroke. Gardeners fifth
Evans overplayed the hole. Evans
fourth was dead. Gardner failed to hole
his seven-foot putt and Evans won
with six.
The players continued to treat the
gallery to fine shooting off the tee, both
being down and center and well out.
Evans played a sweet mid-iron, which
had plenty of stuff on it. and stopped
fifteen feet beyond the pin. Gardeners
second was on the lower edge. Gard
ner overran his approach putt by two
feet. Evans made a miserable putt, his
ball rolling off to the left and leaving
him three-foot putt, which he missed.
Gardner went down for to win