The evening world., 1916-09-08
Colt Title liolier ani Open
Champion Win First Rounds
IN Tournament.
GullFORD AWAY OFF.
Chick" Plays Poor Game, hut
Has Little Trouble DE.
featlng Cockfan.
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hsNonh amateur Eolf title on these
links to-day resulted In entry matches
Tor the eountry's two national cham.
pfons. Robert Gardner. the defending
ti'lehoidsr. and chick Evans. the
open champion. Gardner. who solfei
In wonderful form. finished his round
with a lead Of four holer on Jesse
Guilford. the hard d-ciou,ins New Eng.
land star Evans. mixing brilliant
shots with very poor onas. came In
three up Oh Clarke Corkran of Balti-
more, who 10 a Junior At Princeton.
Hob Gardner put up great de.
fens. Of his amateur title and out
classod Jesse Guiiford. Tho defend
ing champions sams was the best
seen In either match. Chick Evans
disappointed his gallery. The CHI
cago wizard WAS wild on the tees and
uncertain on the greens
TIE champion held his far-hitting
opponent safo throughout the round
nnd his lead was never threatened.
After tho first two holes were haivsd.
Gardner begun showing tho way to
Guilford whom the New Enslander
drove out OF bounds and lost tho
long third hole.
Gardner Increased his lead on the
fourth and NTH holes when Guilford
shot of tho line into trouble. Gull |
ford. mainly on a beautiful chip shot
to the cup. halvsd the sixth In hves. I,
The New Engiander. on the seventh. !
again pitched finely to tho cup and
won 8 TO 4.
Gardner came right back and
putted In the next one on q fifteen !
foot putt that travelled over two rolls
before dropping In the hole. The short
ninth was halved, making Gardner
three UP at the turn. squaring the
tenth and eleventh hole. Gardner got
busy on the twelfth. where 0uilford
.obligingly knocked his opponents ,
ball In tho cup after attempting a /
long putt.
Gardner, requiring three puts, pre-
sc ented the short thirteenth 10 Gull (
ford. Guilford. trying for great dis .
tance. sliced out Of bounds on the
uphill fourteenth. an error which cost
the hole. as Gardner went through
to the has.
Tho fifteenth was halved In par
fours. Guiiford. making a wonderful
mid-iron shot clear across a wide
quarry dead to tho pin on the <s3- .
yard sixteenth. managed to capture a
win and reduced Gardner's lead. Both .
halved the short seventeenth after :
missing their second puts.
Gardner gave an exhibition Of jsunty
club swinging on the home hole when
he wsiloped far to the left into . patch
Of woods. He needed two strokes to
escape. and dissusted. gave Guiiford
the hole.
The cards
Gardner:
Out - So So +-3s
In 80 4 I - - 7-3s-T
Guilford:
Out ..4b 656b $50 %-41
In 80 $50 I 8 &-ss-7o
Evans against CockrSn failed to
make many Of his sensational iron
shots. The open champion did not
show much OF tho steadiness that
marked Gardners playing In the
other match.
Evans began his trouble making on
the second hole by driving out OF
bounds. Cochran evened the score by
duplicating Chicks feat on the fourth.
Cochran dropped tho fifth on poor
putting and also the sixth where he
cracked his second shot In a creek
near tho green.
Evans couldn't putt on the seventh
hole and lost. Cochran on the shor:
ninth ptu his tee shot In n brook
guarding the green and conceded the
hole to Evans, making Chick 2 UP at
this stage.
After halving the tenth nicely. beth
made yard drives to the edge Of
the green on the sa6-yard eleventh
and yet each one needed three strokes
to complete the distance. Cochran
captured tho twelfth hole on q road
by a dandy second shot.
On the short thirteenth Cochran
drove into brook to the right Of the
green and finally picked up. Tho
baltimore youth won the fourteenth
with a fne three when he laid long
cashie shot dead to the pin. Poor
putting cost Cochran both the fif-
teenth and sixteenth holes. Evans
was going strong now and also cap
tured the seventeenth when Cochran
failed to drive the green.
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