Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-05

"DeO nc Kept on SliIDIB on lnc east course
In the afternoon He wound up there with
an So. Hts total put him nine strokes
behind w c. Fownes, Jr, the winner Of
the medal
Gets Gold Medal
"Bnl" Fownes led off the brilliant work
Of the most of the PittsburEhers.
lie Is former national champion, and
his last public matches last season were
when he walloped Francis Oulmet, and
came within shade OF licking Jerry
Truvcrs the next day Ebcn Byers, also a
former champion, and n clubmate Of
Fowncss from Oakmont, was third In the
field with l57, and @. a. Ormston also
qualified.
Cameron Buxton, local champion. played
fine stcndy golf Yesterday. and was re-
warded by the committee with a match to-
day against Fownes. who won the medal
Yesterday II will be a tough old match
and the winner has n fine chance Of getting
into the third round.
The most sensational bit of work done
yesterday was when John c. Anderson,
Swanoy a nnalist last year. plunged his
nibick into black cloud that gathered
over his head tho result of n morning
round OF 90 strokes over the cast course,
and smashed all preccdcnts by trimming
90 strokes Off his first figures with a brill
liant, dazzling 20 over the west course In
the afternoon.
Such "friEhtfulness' is a thing unhcard
of even in the inner circles Of golfdom
Nearly all the gathering thought Anderson
had withdrawn after his morning score and
were habhcrEasted when he returned the
card that qualified him easily.
Chicks New Stance
Chick Evans carried tho greater part NJ
tho great Labor Day gallery around with !
him.
All local fandom wanted a peck at the
open champion Of tho United states and |
the player whom Harry Warden called this |
countrys finest golfer. They wanted n |
peek also at his notorious putting, and |
Chick gave them all fine showing Of his |
wares on the thirteenth hole Of the cast |
course in the morning he staged his best !
effort
lie was almost dead to the hole with his |
pitch and not a member Of tho gallery but |
thought that the Chicago youth would sink !
his putt for bird .
Chick eyed the line long between his |
mact aluminium putter and tho yawninG |
tin about two feet away. II took mighty |
effort, but he did 1t and the gallery almost |
hootcd In its JOY that a star could be so
human.
For Evans missed that putt by almost n
statute mile. 1t was a beautiful miss His |
putting was SO bad in the afternoon that !
chick lnughinGly stood at the eighteenth /
green with legs spread wide, his back 20
the pin. and knocked his bail backwards
his feet like n center passing the
ball on a football team. This after he had
rolled away over the hole on his approach
putt,
At that, his new stance got him nearer
the tin than he would probably have gone
otherwise.
Meredith Jack. junior champion Of Phila-
delphia, and only just in his COS, got in
the going with a wonderful showing for
his age. His 70 over the west course made
n mark that scores Of veterans could not
touch.
Holes Out at Nineteenth
TTc got n six on the eighteenth after not
n little wandering from the duty at hand.
In fact he holed out I'm the nineteenth hole
before he did at the eighteenth His ap-
proacn to the green bounded right on the
Iog.cabn brick porch floor. among n gath
arinE of officials who were seeking comfort
in some tinkling tumblers. They wished
him luck as Jack came up and batted his
ball off the porch to the green. But ii gave
him a six for the hole. which need not have
The gallery contained distinguished
delegation Of golfers locally the feminine
section particularly.
Miss Mildred Caverly, the local cham
1ion. who Is looked upon To take her place
N the national limeliGht shortly, was there
as were Mrs. G. Henry Stetson. of many
lonors, and Mrs. Clarence II. Nanderbeck
lational champion,
Charlie Hoffner. who tied for the metro
ooltan open title recently, was on hand
10 speed up his brother George, who has
'hosen the amateur field,
ClOckwOrk Tourney
The course made a beautiful scene-the
falrway of green lawns the
white sand dunes piled high here and there
With the stream and woods, the gay colors
II the galleries and players scattered all
1ver the huge arena,
The tents, the spreading clubhouse, the
lags, all helped to set off the glory of the
annual classic for the championship Of this
broad land. The games for the title are be-
ng held In this city for the first time in
he history of the United States Golf As
ISOLATION.
Everything went off like clookwork yes
erday, thanks 20 the untring efforts of
Robert W. Lesley, president of the Phila-
ielphia Golf Association, chairman OF the
,Ierion committee and chairman of the local
Committee in charge Of the tourney.
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