The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-08-20

MATCH SQUARED
All Even at End of First
Eighteen Holes at
0akmont.
BOBBY JONES THREE UP
ouimet Says Reports Illness
Exaggerated-Will Have
No Excuses.
BOBBY JONES THREE UP

Pittsburgh. Aug. 2o.-Charle
("Chick") Evans, Jr, and Francis
| Ouimet were all even when the.
completed the first eighteen holes o
their 36-hole match in the secont
round of the national amateur gol
championship today at the Oakmon
! Country club.
Bobby Jones, of Atlanta, was ny
on Bob Gardner at end of first eight.
cen holes.
Both Evans and Ouimet appeared
confident as they started from tine
home tee today.
my illness has been very much
exaggerated" Ouimet said. "If l am
beaten l will offer no excuses. II
will simply be case of being beaten
by a better golfer"
Evans drove first. hitting the ball
straight and far down the course
Ouimet topped his drive. He played
his brassie in the rough and made
an iron shot to the green. Evans
was on the green in 2. Ouimet
trimmed the cup on his thirty foot
putt, but Evans sank from the edge
Of the green for an eagle 3 and a
win, Ouimet taking five.
Both hit beautiful drives going to the
StCOnu HOltt Ouilltt 6Gtllub litD lOlSci
distance. He played his iron shot into
the green. Evans approach caught a
deep trap and he wa>5 not out on his
third. Ouimet putted close to pin and
won the hole As.
ouImet Wins Third.
Ouimet out drove Evans fifteen yards
going TO hole three, both being straight
down the course. Evans played his
second shot to the edge of the green.
Ouimet also had a fine second shot.
He approached to within sixty feet of
the hole. Evans chip shot was closer.
and a win. Evans missing putt and
took Ave. Ouimet one up.
Going to the fourth, Ouimet pulled
his drive into sand trap. Evans hit
a fine long drive. Oumet made a re-
markable. shot out of the trouble, clear
being out on the fairway. Evans bras
sic shot was a good one, stopping
twenty yards from the green. Ouimet
played a beautiful iron shot, reaching
the green in three, his ball stopping
twenty feet from the cup. Evans
cup. Ouimet had a nasty putt but he
laid 1t dead. Evans missed the putt
and the hole was halved in par five.
Going to the fifth. Ouimet piled his
drive into the rough. while Evans
drive caught a sand trap He made
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teen feet away. Ouimet played out Of
the rough to the green. but was far
from the pin. Evans sank his putt for
a fine 3. Ouimet taking 4, the match
was squared.
In playing the short six-hole Evans
farther away. Evans sank a 3o-foot
putt for a birdie and win. Ouimet
taking a par 8, Evans / up.
An Square Again
Evans drive for the seventh was =, =
deep trap to the left OF the falrway.
a fine drive. He had nice but barely
missed another trap. Ouimet laid his
second shot to the green. Evans was
in the rorch. He Clipped up to within
10 feet of the pin. Ouimet laid his
run up putt and the hole in As; Evans
missed his putt for a four and half.
The match is squared again.
Ouimet drove to the edge Of the
green, going to the eighth hole. Evans
hit to the side of the green. Ouimet
played his mashie shot four feet from
the pin dt Ey4ns sgr past 5s the 5 cup oa and
parr 3 and win. Evans taking four,
Ouimet / up.
Both had fine drives to the ninth.
ouimet hit beautiful brassie shot. but
I went into trap. Evans just escaped
/ similar stopping. Ouimet sank his
luIL q lOuT, DdlNlHs tIlS IOle, Nv
ans also taking a four, Ouimet 1 /
lp at the turn.
The card
evans out ...........3 s 53354
0uimet out ..,.........5 4 4 5 1 8 4 3 4 |
Ouimet won the tenth hole, AS, maxi /
ng him up. The eleventh was halved !
n par fours.
Evans took the twelfth, 3-5. Oumet |
till ! up Holes 13, IA, Is and 16 |
we're halved at four each.
The seventeenth was taken by Evans,
IS, making the score even.
The eighteenth was halved the first
lalf Of the match ending all square.
Other Results.
Results at the eighteenth hole in the
morning round were:
Robert T. Jones, Atlanta, three up on
2obert A. Gardper, Chicago; r. E.
<nepper, Sioux City, and j. B. Crook
ton, Stanton Heights. all even; George
v. Hoffner. Bella, four up on Grant
\. Peacock, Oakmont W. c. Fownes,
r., Oakmont. three up on c. G. Waldo,
r., Detroit; w. J. Thompson, Missis-
aqua, four up on Nelson NJ. Whitney,
Audobon; Davidson Heron. Oakmont,
ne up on ]. N. Stearns. Jr., Nassau
:. Wood Platt. North Hills, three UP on
PAUL Tewkesbury. Aronimink.