The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-10
Chick Evans, IT,, The Best Golf Player Sport Has Ever Known Is
 Frank Opinion Of Gardner White
Competent Judge Pays Tribute to National Amateur Cham piOn-NeWs Notes From the Links.

Links.
 It Is the belief of Gardiner White
 of Nassau that Chick Evans, Jr., na- tional amateur champion, is the greatest golfer extant. White. ought to be able to judge fairly well, he constituted one o- the party of four to make the Canadian tour recently, the
 others being Evans, Oswald Kirby, Metropolitan titleholder, and D. E..
 Sawyer, former Western champion. Large galleries were on hand | wherever the quartet put in an appearance, this being especially so | at the Rosedale Golf Club, To- ronto. The tour was for the bene- 1 fit of the Canadian Red Cross. White and Kirby won by 3 and l at Ham l flton, where Evans established a new | course record of 70. At the Toronto Golf Club Evans and Sawyer won 2 l and l, while at Rosedale White and 1 Kirby had to play an extra hole be- fore the match was decided in their | favor.
 Two of the golfers. White and
 Evans, broke the record at the River
 meade Gold Club, Ottawa, Evans get 1 ting 68 and White 69. The last | named and Kirby won by 2 up. At 1 the Ottawa Golf Club the four were 1 all square by the time the twentieth 1 hole was played, so as they had to | run for a train, they left it at that. | They also finished even at the Royal i Montreal Club, where Evans eQualled
 the course record despite the pouring
 rain. He had 70 there At | Andrews-by-the-Se the morning round ended all square, but later Evans and Sawyer won by 1 up, the | national champion and Kirby each l getting 72, which equalled the record | for the links.
 | Irish golfers took part in the na- | tive professional tournament oyer the | Portmarnock links recently, and Pat l rick O'Hara, brother of Peter, the
 popular professional at Shackamaxon.
 won the title. His score of 323 was l five strokes better than his nearest
 rival' M. Ho1ley, of Killiney, with BPS for the seventy two holes.
 James O'Hara another brother, | started off well on the first day, with
 rounds of IT and s2, but he picked up | on his fourth round when everything l went wrong. No championship has 1 been held since 1914, when c. w. |
 ran had won for four years, Moran,
 one of the best golfers Ireland ever | produced. was killed in action last | March.
 Scoring was high, as a strong wind | veered round the course so that it
 was impossible to play straight. A | good many of the players threw
 away strokes on the greens. As a re-
 suit of his victory, O'Hara got ten i pounds and a gold medal Immed- l lately after the championship he l took part in an exhibition match with l James Braid, and the last named had
 to play twenty-four holes before he settled matters.
 Invitations for the tournaments at | the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club | Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July "A, 25 and 26. were issued recently. It | is years since this organization held an invitation affair. Conditions call for an eighteen-hole qualifying round | on Thursday, with the first and sec ond rounds on Friday and the semi
 hnal and final on the last day. There , will also be a handicap on Saturday, l prizes being offered for the two best 1 net scores. Winners and runners-up
 in as many divisions as fill will be i awarded prizes, well as every win | ner in the beaten eight sets | A call for amateur golfers to keep
 score in the open championship tour | nament at North Shore tomorrow ana Friday has been sent out by A.
 H. Pogson, secretary of the Metro
 politan Golf Association. About fifty
 are wanted tomorrow and thirty-five | on the second day.
 1 Caddies at the Oakley Country club | are being encouraged to take part in | Competitions. and the first of a series | of eighteen-hole handicaps was held | a short time since. Each player is | given a handicap by Mike Brady, and l prizes are awarded for those with the | two low gross scores and for the two
 best net totals. Brady takes special ! interest in fifteen year-old Charley
 Doyle, who caddied for him in the
 national open at Brae Burn Doyle
 won the first tournament at Oakley | with a pair of 9O's
 Golfers at the Idlewild Club near | Chicago, are being treated to a sertes l or tips on how to play the game Ev-
 cry week the sports and pastfmea
 committee posts a few terse and
 timely hints, the latest being: 'eKeeD
 your heac still when approaching. | ihe closer you are to the hole the
 more apt you are to look up." | In tEe annual midsummer tourna ] ment of the Hotel Mems Golf Asso- I citation on the Gedney Farms links l the winners were follows: H. C. Beakers, Jr., handicap, against par;
 D. $. Hanley, association first prize;
 guests prize, A. H. Johnson The women are getting so set up in
 these suffrage times. that soon they'll,
 De demanding the right to leave the