Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-21
Chick Made Cro,UnIesS
King of GoHdom by
Fearless, Untaltering
York of BoStonian
HOFFNER -PLATT WIN
BY SPICK HALL
staff Correspondent Of fhe Evening Pub
Iedger

staff Correspondent 9f the Evening Public
= Ledger
Pittsburgh. Pa. Aug 81. - Today
Chick Evans is the crownless prince OF
golfdom.
/ At one fell swoop the laurels which
he won at the Merton Cricket Club three
years ago, when he snatChCd the ANA
teur diadem from Robert \. Gardner in
the finals, have been torn away. And
the man who thus uncrowned Chick
proved to be one of the gamest athletes
that ever performed on an American
playground.
This young man is Francis Ouimet,
of down Fast fame. He not only out
played Chick Evans yesterday afternoon
at the Oakmont Country Club in a
grueling thirty six hole match, but he
| OUTGAAIED him and OUTGAAED
him to a finish.
If that golf match had been a base
ball game we would be permitted to say
that it ended with a Garrison finish ;
but. of course golf ethics and etiquette
do not allow such brutal verbiage. But
that finish was one which the hundreds
of spectators that crowded around the
home green will never forget.
Crowd Interferes
Several minutes before the two play
ers, who were all square after the
thirty fifth hole, had made their ap-
proach shots, the big green was lined
on three sides with eager onlookers.
They literally swarmed around the
verdant board, giving the stewards all
they could do to prevent their breaking
through the official Gordon to the playing
surface.
Ouimct shot his approach to the right
of the green, and while the officials were
madly shouting fore :" the ball landed
squarely in a small sand pit. Evans
made shot from the green that hurtled
to the opposite side of the green and
apparently it was going into the other
hazard.
But it didn't. Here Evans had a
break that might have won him the
match. Although the ball bounded
twice directly toward the pit, it took a
queer" hop" and rolled nearly over to
the edge of the green.
This looked to be the end of Ouimet
whose ball was deeply buried in the
sand at one corner of the green. But
the game champion of 1914 made q
wonderful out, landing about six feet
from the pin.
The Elimination Putt
Evans's long approach shot overrar
the hole seven or eight feet and his next
attempt was short by inches. Ouimet
after speaking to his wife, who was
bending down in front of the gallery
steadied himself and before the tense
crowd realized it. had sunk his putt and
eliminated Chick Evans from further
participation in the amateur tourna
ment.
The victory of Ouimet was far more
than a mere advance over great player
in the second round for a national title
1t settled, at least temporarily, all ar.
guments as to the relative merits of the
two men in match play. This, by tn,
way, was the first time that the two
men had ever met in anything except q
minor match. They played an eight,
cen hole match in Detroit in 1915 II
an East vs.. West tournament.
Evans was dormie three on that occa
sion, but Ouimet had one of his famou,
low scoring streaks, winning the mex
three holes, which squared the match
then won on the nineteenth.
0uimet Has Courage
That small match proved little. Blu
yesterdays proved great deal.
In the first place Ouimet was i'll
He had all he could do to get AROUND
the course on Monday, and while he wa
better yesterday he had u fever, whicl
was surely a great handicap. But hi
playing, particularly in the afternoon
did not show the effects of his illness.
His work on the first nine holes Ii
the afternoon was Che equal of any gol
ever played in thir csluatry He dn