The Washington herald., 1920-09-09

Walter J. Davis and Wilder OF
Massachusetts went to forty holes
at Garden City before the former
finally won. Today Evans and
Lewis set a new championship rec
ord when the worn and weary
Evans sank his two-toot putt on
the forty-flrst green after the
equally worn and weary Lewis had
= taken three puts and had missed
q his final bid by an inch. Chicks
short attempt iuttered in, fiuttered
out again and then as II imbued
with the WEAKNESS of both the gall
lery and the players finally sank
from sight in the bottom of the
waiting hole. The story of the
last few holes contains far more
drama and concentrated human
emotion than it does in the way
of technical golf.
Greenwich star sticks.
All through the forenoon round
the young Greenwich star had stuck
to Evans with the grip of destiny.
He was not to be shaken loose.
Blow for blow he carried on the
battle through the afternoon fnish
until he finally squared the match
on the fifteenth hole Of the thirty
third green All square now and
but three to play. From all over
the course scattered galleries, scent
ing the possibility of a thrilling
finish, rushed from knoll and knob
from hill and valley. to be in at
the death.
At the thirty-fourth hole Lewis
topped his tee shoe where Evans
struck of a far swipe down the
middle of the half-blind fairway'
Lewis, forced to play short OF the
guarding ditch. had little chance lot
a half But Evans mashie pltch
caught a roll of the green and hnally
trickIed into the heavy grass ring
ing the foot of the green. Lewis at
this point proved again that he was
a golfer of both raw nerve and rare
class. He pitched boldly to the cup
with enough back spin to hold his
hail only six feet away, and when
chick chipped out twenty feet short
Of the pin all the advantage had
been wiped away. His putt failed
TO 20 down and then Lewis turned
ba1 start into a fine finish by
bo1aing his six-footer for par four.
Ha was then one up in place Of being
one down.
Lewis sinks Hard Putt.
Ooa agaip at the seventeenth
after he had Clipped by the cup on
bis n ird- Lewis had 10 hole ten
g., c,-Iinp putt to hold his ad-
yantave. and when the ball dropped
In the lusty shout that went up gave
fn1Iv approval to his cool game
stand -,.,. -.
I hole Ieft-it was at this hole that
the Western star made the most
desperate stand to stay in that ne
has ever made In his tournament
experience of twelve years Both
hit two good drives down the MD
die. with Chick a trifie short and
a trife to the left Just few sec
onds after his club crashed into
the ball, the ball crashed into d
gap of ancient oaks well to the
left of the green and bounded back
some sixty OF seventy yards from
the green
the tree limbs seemed to re-echo
ike the voice of doom so far as
Evans was concerned. And when
Lewis played to the bank beyond
the green for a sure no one
who knew the contour of this
fnaI green could conceive of any
thin but a victory for Lewis
But Evans refused to quit. He
pftcbed down the slope ten feet
beyond the pin. leaving himself
a 7sloping, treacherous putt over
the hardest green of the course to
manipulate. Lewis, taking his time
cooIIy Clipped down within eight
feet of the cup.
1t was then up to Evans. He
had to get his putt and his pponent
had to miss, or the lights were
out for the Western star. Evans
started his putt a good three feet
of sharply when about two feet
above a straight line to the hole.
The ball took the curve, broke
away and then disappeared from
siEht-One of the greatest puts
ever sunk in any championship any
where on earth.
Lewis Misses Needed Putt.
Lewis missed his four and so they
moved along to the first extra hole.
Here two fine drives travelled on
down the caurse. Evans away,
elected to play safely to the right
of the pin, catching the bottom Of
the green's big dip. Lewis. playing
boldly for the cup, caught the
green's down slat and the ball,
while perfectly struck, rolled into
a trap beyond. He was barely out
on his third. still forty feet or more
away. Evans, fifty feet from the
hole, had a treacherous put to han
die up. the sloping battling bank
and he did well enough to get the
ball within five feet Of the cup.
Lewis here made his bid for vic
tory. His long put hit the cup and
bounded out. A moment later Evans
putt curled up to within a hair Of
the rim and hung there. on they
were to the second extra hole. where
another flare and flash of drama
was in the making.
Once again two fine drives came