Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-03
F0URS0ME TIED Up
Anderson-Hoyt and White
Lewis Do 7O's at Merton.
GARDNER-EvANS MAKE II
Walter Travis Makes Tactical Mis-.
take of Picking Up His Ball
and Spells Score.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PHILADELPHIA. September The
sun had long set on the Merton links
and the course was shrouded in dark
ness when John G. Anderson and Frank
Hoyt of Siwanoy strolled up to the
home green, turned in a best ball card
Iof 20 and tied Gardiner White and NJ
lP. Lewis of Flushing in the play for
the American golf trophy. a four-ball
best ball club pairs contest, which is
la preliminary skir1nish to the general
engagement for the national amateur
championship which begins Monday.
Early in the day a most formidable
team took the field and led the way
national amateur champion, and Chick
Evans, national open champion. com
peting as a club pair for the Chicago
Golf Club. Under ordinary circum-
stances this pair should have been in
vincible, but the two men had only re-
Gently disembarked from a train; ii
was their first view of the course, and
the amateur champion was bothered by
the sore finger which threatened to re-
move him entirely from the champion
ship tournament. Their best ball of
l72. however. was low enough to hold
the lead until Gardiner White and NJ
P. Lewis came In about dusk with 20,
followed by Anderson and Hoyt with
the same score.
The national amateur champion was
far from form on his tee shots, one of
| the strongest departments Of his game.
and he took no less than % strokes on
the first five holes. Evans was little
better, and their best balls to the turn
was 80. Unfamiliarity with the course
made them misjudge the distance on
course is heavily bunkered to punish
just such mistakes. the champions SUI
fered accordingly. On the last nine
holes they made wonderful rally.
Chick Evans coming home in So strokes
to 80 for Gardner. with a best ball of
"a. Gardner had the index finger of his
left hand bandaged, and he gripped the
club loosely to avoid making a bad
matter worse. In the afternoon Chick
Evans made another and better round,
getting an approximate "A.
Since the American golfer trophy was
put in competition, in 1913. Walter J.
Travis. donor of the silver golf stick
which is the trophy, teamed with Fred
Garden City Golf Club. The veteran
started out this afternoon with Her
reShof in an endeavor to bring the
trophy back to the Garden City Club. as
1t has been resting at Yahnundasia for
a year through the success OF Tom and
Sheriff. Sherman at Detroit last year.
When the turn was reached the former
American and British amateur cham
pion and his partner had a best ball of
thirty-flve, and seemed in a fair way to
register their third victory in this
event. On the tenth hole Travis made
a tactical mistake-a fearful and won
derful performance for the man who
was regarded as the greatest tactician
of the game. He missed shot or
two. and as Herreshoff seemed to have
par -four. at his mercy. the veteran
picked up his ball Entered then the
demon OF perversity in tho Villains
role. and after getting into serious
trouble on his approach to the green,
Herreshoff took a seven. which was
duly inscribed as the best ball on the
tenth hole for the team-and tho
dream of third victory was dissipated.