New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-04
IS NAMES STAND
OUT ABOVE REST
White and Lewis Win from
Anderson and Hoyt
in Play-Off.
Bv CRANTLAND RICE.

ouble golf course at Merton, and
usk those with the thirty-two low,
.ores will continue TO grapple for h
nateur golf championship of Amer
match play.
These thirty-two will traverse \
asst and west courses around 4
.rokes or better, while the remand
{ the big field will fold their niblic
nd. like the Arabs in a mixed me,
hor. fade away to pack their dream,
,mphor for another year.
Among those who have beer playil
round the top Of their games and vi
re favored with chance might
AIMED the following: Evans, Kirks
Iarston, Sawyer, Lewis, Guiltor
Bush, Anderson, White, {,
,r. Hover and Dyer. This is in
ay full list Of those playing VI,
ut the winner is almost sure to con
rom this selection, with Evans, Kirk
nd Marston favored to a slight exnr
Ten Have a Chance.
As indications now stsnd-if indie
ons ever stand-this is the most %,
mateur championship We have s
ad, for there are at least ten golf.
ere with a chance TO beat any o.
avorite. Evans and Kirkby, lead,
rom the West and East, are both pl,
~ fine golf, but Msrston, Lewis, Gu
ord and Dyer have been pound,
way between 10 and II steadily.
The arrival Of Phil Carter also ado.
, the gayety of the situation, as p
as been playing fine golf the last a
eeks and looks TO be in splendid shsp
'e is a good, hard match player. q
Jay furnish abnormal trouble befo
e is through.
Il is impossible TO say yet just h
ell Robert A. Gardner, the prest
hampton, will play. His infected hs'
still hurting him badly on his o'
-on shots where he has 10 take tgi
ut his natural ability and his unusg
ourage may carry him far even again
MS handicap. Over the west eour
,-day he returned an so, which is e.
ence enough that he is gradusI
lastering the proposition OF work.
18th a bandsged hand.
The most remarkable round Of !
ay fell to the lot of Chick Evans.
he forenoon Chick decided TO play y
,est course, paired up with Gsrdn'
lie had never seen this course beia'
nd there is a world Of trouble be-
or the player who is not hitting b
bots. But to show his mastery
God and iron Evans secured the 70
wing card, with every putt h0Ie'
n his first trip around:
nt...4 45 IS 3 3 Az
l.... 35t 4 4 ~
Three Good Rounds.
A golfer who can move around
TRANCE championship course in
trokes might be rated fairly close
he top of a fairly good game. Eva
as played three rounds since he
ived at rs, rs and II. kirkbys 10
ounds have been 20. -. IS and 50,
nough not il this order.
To watch Evans play a mashie :
roach is a sight for those who dE'
pom Olympus. The combined esl
hythm and frmness with which
escends upon the ball makes g
ook too easy TO be taken as a gar
ou figure upon every pitch that
ill be ten or twenty yards short :
he final whip lash at the finish dn'
he ball along TO the required 81
nd to-day the range was from VIE
nrec TO twelve feet Of the pin.
With Evans, Kirkby and Marst
avored, there are so many here "
ave a chance TO beat any one fave
.e that mentioning names SOUNDS
luch like roll call OF the first thl''
NO. With Gardeners hand IN y
hspe and with Travers and Oulr
Kissing. il is almost a certainty y
new champion will he crowned, :
electing the proper brow 70 wear
anne is another matter.
Evans undoubtedly has The y
nance he has ever had. and II he q
ct away nicely the first day or ?
he open champion will be extrem'
ard to stop. There will be far y
pr chance to obtain line On the s@
ion after the qualifying rounds
YER and the drawings have been ma,
or with two courses so totally UNI
D play over and with such possibllib
{ disaster on the first nine holes
he east course, more than one suo,
is likely 10 topple INTO
iscards before match play stsre'
ew bad shots mixed with a LITTLE :
lex can run up a score here IN n'
Fairway Baked Out.
The greens are in fine condition y
he fairway is still baked or ma.
nat can only be changed b. the sH'
T considerable rain. -.
In the forenoon to-day Waite
evils won "The American Golfer p,,
# from Anderson and Hoyt BY :,
comfortable margin of five strokes .
iwanoy pair were unable 10 get g..
n the outward journey. where y.
massed a best ball or 40 TOT INV D"
inc holes. -.
This score shows the trouble one . :.
leet over the east course srouho .
tart. As a result OF this Tagging p
he Flushing team had a wide mar.
o work upon, finally winning "
TO an 81. Anderson had - Ss.
ay afternoon, so the one bad ro'
'n't bothering him in the slighteN
The arrival to-day Of Presiden, IT,
Ioodward and Secretary Howard "" =,
ey of the L. s. 6. A. lent offieiSI -
ity to the occasion, as they say az,
abmet circles. Most OF the go,r,
ested this afternoon. but Few - -.
rivals took their way around tnIO-'
he heat in final trial trips oeio'e