Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-07
CHICK EVANS RAPS'
TECHNICAL GOLF
Says He's Never Read
Rules, but Urges Others
to Do So
RELATES EXPERIENCES
BY CHARLES CHICK" EVANS. Jr.

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l have been asked to write an ar
ticle on the rules of golf and the SUBJ
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nut the irony OF the request lies III
the fact that I have never made spe'
,i,i study ,f ,ho ,uhiec,. have never
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from the omission, but ! began my goi
very Young and accented the dicta Of
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those who begin gof lite IN life and
nlav n proa, doai with others eaun,ly
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moment. W. however u W IVY ", 80
tune to play WIN n'ah VINO 1880 u
'ulcs "hen theH ven osalS W. ' 80
'p'c myHeN by reca''inv tnH o'd SdE's
OF my h'dhood days. "'ne llne,
or course III the o'g inatrnes '''e,c arc
usually referees VINO relieve 'ne p'a!er"
NJ all reSpon"ihtlity' Nne" '"eg are
missing there is always chahce or M
JUSTICE being done Na'nra'E, uuronR
my long tourney experience nave VIZ
ncssed many Interesting cases 'i'us'ra
1--WE Of tho effect OF ru'e3 uecisiohS at
critical moments
The nnaltsts OF certain event we're
going to tho last hole "hen ono o, 'he,n
vas dobaiablc question. but the referee
called It out: had bce, the players
opponent should have ca'ed VI III
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ON certain hole across 'ns r,ler d.
Sha"nee PLAYER drove 'n'o we ou"her
peh'ho INC grcen' anu u. sc.uhs w.
went INTO inc river 'ne rue says 'na.
the water nazaru 'r"SSe1 we ,'e w
pay we pa'l mus ue u.'Pp'' mur '"'
wafer naLaro oc'Ween anu 'ne NJ,
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watcr '"Haru' ano t"e o'n ..u'v
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were AZ wen so'i,s 70 we 'as' ~
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| ba wing found his ball kent I'm the game.
| In In, match bet ueeu Warren Wood
aud Trayers I'm the National Chs,npion-
| shin. Trayers Sliced into some ground
under rcpair. Instead OF following the
/ rules and dropping out behiud IL, lie
| dropped to one side. II made quite n
| difference lie won by a single hole
Meets Mean opponent
! When very small boy played in
the Chicago city championship at Jack
son Park I think II was my first
| tournament. In addressing the ball I
knocked It of the tee without actually
taking tho stroke. Ny opponent in
sisted that I should play my second
shot from where the ball rolled did
so and lost on the nineteenth hole. !
| baya aIu, va tried a, al,o,y my onnone n,