New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-10
Chicago Star Takes ANA
teur Tourney After Win
ming Open Championship.
By GRANTLAND RICE.

Merton Golf Club. Haverford, Penn,
Sept. Chick Evans, the Chicago
cofng wizard. is now in highly tech
meal position. He has two crowns,
with only one head TO carry the double
burden,
Twenty-six years ago, in the summer
Of 1890, John Ball. Of Hoylake, won the
open and amateur championships OF
Great Britain, achieving a double
triumph that no one thought would
over be repeated.
Evans to-day carved out the same
destiny by beating Robert A. Gardner
the amateur champion, Up and 70
60. So Chick, after seven barren years,
al last comes into his own with a
sceptre in either hand-open champion
and amateur champion Of the United
States.
Surely this double reward was worth
waiting for. IVES even worth all the
pangs and heartaches that Chick has
suffered year after year when his game
justified victory, but where in each
case his putter barred the way 70 the
goal. The new title holder proved to-
cay beyond all question that he belongs
q the top.
Playing before a big gallery Of 900
people. who surged and swept over the
course, literally fighting at times TO
reach an observation point, Evans
forged ahead, slipped back, and then
at the supreme moment when he looked
TO be slipping, once more fought his
way 20 the front. The story Of Evans's
rev triumph might be summed up from
two points:
Chick Comes Back Fast.
1. He took three puts on only two
greens all day, and more often than
this went down IN one.
.. After Gardner, by game rally,
rad collsred his man in the afternoon
at the fifth hole, squaring the match,
Chick not only came back, but he came
back fast enough 10 play the last ten
holes two under As. exceptional golf IN
the final round of championship, and
more than exceptional golf when one
a
holes and stands rocking and swaylng
upon the edge of the abyss.
Chick at that moment, at the point
where Gardner finally squared the
match, must have faced the haunting
ghosts of other years when he came so
close, only to be brushed aside with
victory almost in sight. But this time
he never faltered, as the string OF AS
and 3's thereafter tells with more than
passing el0qUence.
The story Of Gardeners defeat was
written upon the greens. The Hlns-
dale star had drawn close calls IN other
matches, but he had always been able
AZ decisive moments 20 recover and
get down in one putt. To-day ne re-
covered from trouble well enough, but
the puts refused 10 sink.
The long string OF five and SIX foot,
ers that were so easy on Thursday and
Friday against young Jones and Gull
ford was broken to-day. In the morn.
ing round, on the eleventh and
thirteenth holes Gardner had fairly
easy puts for 2's, but neither went
down. and the big crash finally came
ON the fifteenth, when. after planting
his second shot fifteen feet from the
cup. the ex-title holder required four
puts 20 reach the goal.
Both in Trouble Often.
Both were frequently in trouble, as
Evans found twelve bunkers through
he day, while Gardner reached eleven !
but Chicks iron play was sounder, and
for once in a championship Chick could
mutt when he was forced against the
test. Through the first twenty-three
holes they fought a duel as evenly bal
anced as any one would care 20 see.
But from that point on the open cham
pion had TOO much speed FOR his OPP
nonert 20 follow, and whether good
healthy putt or a fine iron shot was
NODDED. Chick through the last ten
holes had the needed stroke at his COM
mand.
The turning point Of the match came
NJ the twenty-eighth hole. Evans had
finished 3 up in the forenoon. GARD
rer had squared the match az the
tyentv-third hole and Chick recovered
two holes NJ the twenty-sixth. BOB
then won the twenty-seventh win
enc .. and apparently az the twenty
oigb,h was upon his way 20 square the
match once more. Here he had . hne
1.-Two and a fine second TO the green
Cbick was bunkered from the tee
barely out on his second and th t-I
five feet beyond the pin on ms third'
Gardner was only twenty feet away
in 2. Evans, getting the rlgn' ''ne, M
III. mutt clenniy, and without quNer
!, travelled the thirty-hve feet until
il CLICKED in the bottom Of the hole,
A the ball dropped out OF sight inc
~ ro look passed from Chicks FACE
gor he knew then that his day had ar
wed at last. That one putt put him
lack upon his feet, and ne loit no OI. mEre
''i,h renewed confidence and telling et-
feet. n, nj.
Chick on the greens really had oui
o.o gbsstlv hole. In the morning round
Ies dropped his second shot to the !.
si,,h only ten feet away. Gardner :
second was forty feet beyond, put BOP