New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-01
Chick EpanS, Amateur,
Victor at Open Golf

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car and blushing in back of both OF
them.
The weather to-day was perfect for
golf, but rather wearing on the several
hundred men and women who followed
the play both morning and afternoon.
Early IN the morning u had threat
f encd rain. with ominous clouds drifting
slowly across the heavens. II grew OPP
pressively hot. and those who had gone
out in the fields armed with umbrel las
as protection against showers found
| them equally useful in shutting oil the
suns rays.
Now as 70 the play Itself
Evans was drawn to-day with Fred
Mcleod, title holder in 1908. and when
tho pair started the first tee was lined
ten deep with spectators. Both got otf
long drives, and Chick took two puts
for par i. The long second was an
/ other for the Edgewater youth, as he
was on the edge Of the green, $50
yards, in and ran his third up so
close that a was easy. The tricky
third was gobbled up in s, thanks to a
sixteen-foot putt. But on the 5S0-yard
fourth Evans experienced his first
trouble. needing 6 there. A sliced
iron shot TO the rough got him IN diff
culties.
The next three holes were reeled Off
In stroke under par Chick was get
ting fine length with the wood. but his
work with the mashie-niblick was not
all il should have been, as he was fire.
qucntly short Going to the ninth.
Evans sliced his drive badly and It
struck among the trees 10 the right
The ball took a lucky bound, however,
and almost reached back to the fair
green. but, as il was, was re-
corded. making Chick SO, just par, 10
the turn.
On the short tenth. the new cham
pion just missed 2O-fOoter for =,
and on the eleventh. $50 yards. his sec
ond shot, with an iron. left the ball
fifteen feet from the pin. He missed
the putt and got a par 4.
he gallery had grown 70 such pro
portions by this time that Evans and
Mcleod were forced TO send their shots
through a lane of humanity on either
side of the fairways. but nobody was
hurt. although the escapes we're many.
Evans began 70 faltcr Bit on the
last nine. particularly with his irons,
usually the deadlI TEST part Of his game,
and sore of the experts shook their
beads and said the strain was begin
uing TO tell Chick needed 80 coming
home. giving him a - for the morn
ing's play.
He went to the dining room then. and
when he started again in the afternoon
the heat was more oppressive, the
crowd larger and excitement at a
higher notch Things went perfectly
for Chick on the first three holes,
where he was one under par. At the
fourth he hooked his drive to the side
Of a cop bunker, 230 yards away and
was still short on his second. HIS
third overTan the green and landed IN
the rough, and on his fourth ne was
barely on putt. and Evans was still
two feet from the cup. lie studied the
line carefully and then ran alongside
the hole, hnalling taking z.
Too Bad for Chick.
IT'S too bad; he's going 20 blow
now" said a man who vas pressing
against the restraining gu dc ropes; but
he was wrong, for Chick braccd superbly
and frSshed out the rest of the outward
journey IN one stroke over par. lie had
rcgained the use of his irons and was
laying up the approaches ~ deadly
fashion.
The part of his game that drew forth
the most applause was his chipping up
TO the hole from the edge OF the green.
Several times he just trimmed the cup
on these shots, and you could always
tell Chick had made good at such times
no matter where you were on the
course by the perfect storm Of hand
clapping from the gallery.
Turning into the homestrctch. Evans
tightened UP. He had 90, Tor tales Of
The great work Of Long Jim Barnes
i 4 b. oil 80 no N
that a Slip at this time spelled dis
aster. Hole after hole was run OF IN
par
Just when IL seemed that a bit Of
wildness with iron or wood would com
pei extra strokes. the Edgewater sta:
made amends by brilliant chip shots
10 the pin or long approaches tina,
struck the green and stayed dead.
On the last hole. though. Chick
failed ON three-footcr. taking .
there and incidentally losing consid-
cradle money for persons who had
wagercd that the winner Of the tour
ucy would make 2S5 or better.
Crowd Awaits Barnes.
His work done, Chick retired to the
clubhouse locker room The crowd
rested at the home hole. fever.shly
waiting the appearance of Barncs. The
l.nky Briton went odt in two over par
in the afternoon and came home in
the same figures, and when his card
had been added D. was found he was
still four strokes behind Chick.
The tow-headcd hutchinson coming
was hcralded long before by scouts
who recounted great tales of his rec
ord breaking golf. Jack reached the
turn On 80, even with two tweNe-inch
puts missed on the sixth and ninth,
and on the last nine his game was
A even more sensational. and he finished
with a SO. giving him 68, the lowest
total for the tournament
Even the shock of being nosed out Of
the title could not dampen Hutchin-
/ sons spirits.
"The Joke Of it u.s." he remarked.
that / bet 500 that POO would not be
beaten, and here ! 90 and beat il my
self"
And so ended ono Of the greatest Of