The evening world., 1916-09-06
"CH|CK" EVANS
|SAT TOP FORM
FOR GOLF TITLE
I'Ig Gallery Sees Wizard Race
Away Five Up on VIII.
iams Smith.


MARION CHlgkET CLAN. pHIIs.
ADEi.rlllA Pa sept s-Chics
Evans " Chicago, Who 10 ,ryins 90
capture both open and amatsur ma
,lonal solf u,lss ,hl. year. . fca, no
American player has ever been able
10 perform. nnishsd With . lead ~
nve holes over Williams smith -
iine Valley. at the ond of sight.,n
holes. In the second round u the
National Championship on this
course to-day.
INuna. who Won the National
chsmpionship open title at Mime
apolis last June. was In wonderful
form against smith. The Chicago
wizard. tearing OF one sensational
shot after Wnother. completed his
round In ~. which was within two
strokes of the course record.
other second round matches re.
suited In tough opposition Tor several
~ the leading fayoritss. Oswald
klrkhy holder of tho Metropolitan
and Jersey State titles. finished the
morning round one down 10 Gardner
White. Max Marston OF Baltusrol
tackled Bob Gardner. tho defending
champion. and the Jersey star prac.
tically tossed away his chances after
coming In five down to his hard hit
ting opponent
Il. +. oJnes. the fourteen year old
Southern marvel. rallied strongly In
tho last part OF his match and fin
ished all even with Franklin Dyer OF
Montclair.
Fairly high class golf marked the
other matches. especially the playing
of oJhnny Anderson. who piled up a
lead OF five holes over Robert
Hunter.
j. q. Anderson OF Suwanoy was 4 ur
on X. r.. Hunter OF Midwick. porry
AdaIr Of Atlanta had u. Clarke Cock.
ran Of Baltimore 2 down. and Jesse
Guilford OF WOODLAND and q. A. Orm.
iston Of Oakmont were even all
The early gallery selected the
Evans Smith match TO follow and Ia
reward was brilliant playing by the
Chicago star. Evans drove an excep.
tionally long ball. his approaches flew
true to tho greens. while his generally
weak putting was surprisingly strong
He so far outclasscd his opponent
that he match simply became an ex'
hibit.on. with the Chicago WHARF
doing all the sensational playing. Thi:
course with it's many difficult iror
shots just suited Evans. and with
keener opposition he could probabl,
have created new recoNi.
The open champion was particu'
llarly brilliant on the long ripth. where
he sent a monster tee shd dead I,
the green and ran down a l2-foot put
for "a wonderful two. Again at th'
l55-yard seventeenth he just snisse'
, making the hole In one stroke. hi
drive rolling TO within three feet o
the cup.
: Evans card was:
5 Out S 4 $50
. In 81 44s4 5-36-7
l Max Marston. who fought his wa
: to tho semi finals for the Nationa
Championship at Detroit last yeai
l went all to pieces against Bob Gard
: ner, the defending title holder. to-da,
Marston's drives gradually lost thei
customery long distances. and hi
{ playing through the fairway an
\ around the hole was erratic and. q
J times. Indifferent.
Gardner, on the other hand. wa
steady and managed to put his oppo
nent's many errors to good use
Gardner came to the turn three u
and he Increased his lead coming II
' Just how poorly Marston was play
] ing was best seen at the 365-yar
eighteenth, a par I hole. whore
landed in a bunker and needed seve
' strokes to get home. The card:
Gardner
Out. IS s ~
Marston-
OUT. SIS 8 8 ~
Gardner in.... 44354 So
= Marston in.... t544 49, 7--41-t
: Gardner White, the Flushing cham