Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-23

Ray had a powerful wallop off the
first tee, the best of the four, but Mar
ston was closest to the pin with his
second. Halved in As. Evans was in
the sand to the second and dropped a
long shot from there with brassie.
Ray was just ahead on the bank and
played safe out, drawing applause as
he crashed into long brassie. Vardon
was on in four, the same as Ray, and
the Americans went l up when Mar
ston and Evans both got their par fives.
Nardon was trapped at the third,
Marston to the rough and Evans just
on the corner of thcgreen. Ray was in
the hay.
Nardon missed his second, but Ray
chipped close enough to sink from his
hard lie for half with Evans. Vardon
hit perfect iron from hard approach
to the fourth, Marston catching the
rough on the Nft, but Clipped so well
that he came in on triple half, sVardon
taking three puts.
Evans and Vardon played their third
through the fifth at the same time, and
the crowd applauded loudly is both
landed the green: Evans stopped
fairly two feet from the pin, but he
failed to sink the putt, laughing as
usual, when he missed. Half all
around in 8.
Marston got hard lie on n bunker
bank with his drive to the sixth, and
had to play out, short. Evans was
short of the green, the same as Nardon,
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Ray was conceded n three as Vardon
had four to the Americans five. All
square.
All got the short seven, Ray away,
Evans being the closest after a fine
spoon. Nardon putted next, missed,
Marston next, missed, and it was up
to Evans again. He finally hooked one.
bird two, American one up. Evans
was right on the pin to the eighth with
his iron. Marston from the rough was
short in a/trap, but his out was nicely
on. The long putt dropped right on the
left of the cup. Everybody in the hole
had another chance for a bird win, but
booted the putt in his inimitable way.
Halved.
Ray alone was off the short ninth
trapped, and too strong outs. Marston
took three puts, Vardon was conceded
his put for three and Evans made Il
short one for half. Evans was out in
30, Ray, 81: Vardon. 80; Marston, 40.
American one up at the third.
Ray got a trap front Of the green at
the tenth, Marston and Evans getting
the green by a kick off the guarding
banks, They narrowly missed their ap-
proach puts but won the hole in As
when Ray missed from six feet. Ameer-
lean two up.
A big crowd gathered early at the
first tee in anticipation OF this clash
between Evans and Ray, who won the
American open title by a stroke at To-
ledo.
Ray and Vardon deserve the plaudits
of the multitude, bordering on fifty
years of age. Vardon is more than
that, Ray close to forty three. They
are at the fag end of about seventy
days of thirty six holes per diem, in
Guiding night jumps between many
of them, all over the country.
1t would have been difficult for
Merton to have gotten together a better
match than that which was staged to-
day, from Philadelphia standpoint.
Hundreds In the gallery today saw
that thirty six hole match when Evans,
then the open United States champion,
met Bob Gardener, then the amateur
champion. Evans was the astounding
golfer then that he was at the Engin-
GERS when he beat off Francis Ouimet
this year.
Gardner, the long driver, the ex-