Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-01
BRASSEY SHOT, MAXWELLS
LONG PUTT AND BARNES AND LOOS'S
OF WINS FEATURES OF MATCH
Loos Makes Up for Loss of Fourth Hole by Win
ming 1t MOnday-Some Interesting Statistics
of Two Famous Contests
BY PETER PUTTER

HNHERE were many high lights in the
L big match at Whltemarsh MondaE.
Those who saw the final match between
Gardner and Evans in the national amateur
championship at Merton last year will re-
member that Gardner, then the amateur
champion, took four puts on the fifteenth
hole in the morning round Yet Chick took
five shots on the first hole at Whitemarsh
to reach the green. He had a long tee shot.
only Il few yards back of Barnes. lie was
thoroughly chilled by his ride from Beth
lehem. The second shot from where he lay
was an easy iron. Yet he hooked the bal
short, sent his third in the trap to the right
and took another before lie was out and
another before he was on. Chick had hard
luc!; on the third, for his second shot was a
beauty, about ten feet from the pin. But
Loos dropped his approach in from the edge
of the green for n win. on three holes in
row Loos had but single putt.
On the ninth, Evans won the first hole
for the amateurs with well-gauged twen-
ty-foot putt. ON the thirteenth, Evans laid
his approach dead for bird and Barnes
did the same thing on the fourteenth
Barnes repeated on the fifteenth. He took
bu, one putt on the sixteenth On the seven-
teenth, Barnes holed out from the lot and
it turned out that he had promised two
women members Of the club that he would
have an eagle on this hole. In these four
holes Barnes took but one putt on three
holes, hoing out on his approach on the
other and his total was twelve strokes and
his actual figures were four threes in
row, a very extraordinary feat.
In the afternoon the amateurs had the
fourth hole apparently won, but Loos saved
II 10y running down a twenty-footer for
half In the forty-two-hUle match Loos
missed n putt on this, the fOTtieth hole,
which WAS about a foot and a half long
on Monday lie won out in the morning and
h lived il in the afternoon.
Evans's Remarkable Brassey Shot
Perhaps the one shot that sticks out is
that brassey shot Of Chick Evans on the
eighth hole of the afternoon round. He
had driven out of bounds and his second
tee shot was well short Of the others and
the green seemed a mile away Between
him and the green was the big trap, and
the professionals who saw him take out
his brassey' said the carry was fully 2lO
yards, But he hit a screaming shot that
fairly whistled ana the shot was fully 2GO
yards long. This was the hole on which he
got his only SIX.
The eleventh hole was an interesting ex-
hibiton of hitting. 1t IS 525 yards long
and each time Evans had the longest drive
and both times. in spite of the fact that his
ball lay i'm the rough, his brassey was
further than the second shots Of the other
players. The wind was head-on both
morning and afternoon and his two shots
were beautiful In the afternoon both
Barnes and LOos were in the big trap to
the left on their drives and both used mid
irons o'i Tor long distances, two very fine
shots, az she trap is steep, and il required
quite r. TO get the ball out so as 70
escape the ndnks of the trap.
II does not seem possible TO have an