New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

from the towering nils.
More than 10000 devotees of the old
game stood upon the myriad knobs and
ynshed through the endless valleys of
&he Engineers Club yesterday after
noon to gasp in bewildered amazement
AZ the fawless golf which Evans used
70 batter his game and skilled op-
moment into q state Of utter helpless
ness.
4. In vain Ouimet peered through the
shadows of impending defeat to catch
one faint ray Of light to find lust one
opening through which he might start
a eounter-attack toward victory-but
the ruthless perfection of Evans's
Sane blocked all hope and left the
great Bostonian struggling vainly in
fhe grip Of defeat as certain as the
last grim day that waits each human
pilgrim as he takes his rag and pack
and starts through the final twilight
down the last, long trail.
Winner Real Master
Evans, in his conquering march, ap-
Piled his club head to the ball as some
master violnist might apply his bow to
the strings Of 4 Stradivarius
The great crowd that stood and
watched. or that rushed in brcathless
haste to get one feetng look, saw a
mighty master Of harmony of each in
strument, attuned to a perfect pitch,
giving an amazing exhibition of rare
coordination and Swinburnian rhythm
20 each stroke. While Oumet was
struggling to get back the old touch
that once conquered Vardon and RAY,
Evans was perfect picture of supreme
confidence and enduring grace as he
lashed his long tee shots straight down
the middle and then lofted his we'll cut
approaches to within easy putting dis
lance Of the nearby cup.
The great crowd, composed of old
men and young men, of women beyond
sixty ard young girls below eighteen
rowing, rushing, billowy mass of hu-
manity who followed the last nine
holes in the morning round to the finish
Of the match-saw the finest exhibi-
tion of golf that any champion ever
offered
After bad start in the, morning
xsand through the first nine holes, they
aS@ Evans come back in 35, and they
ta'Y him pick up this relentless march
!. the afternoon by going out in "a and
then stopping at the tenth hole
sen holes in 36 strokes. or tour better
than even As. Tnd they saw all this
done with such grace and ease and har-
noay that the battling game invented
fve centuries ago by some wandering
Scotch shepherd seemed to be zoo easy
for any one to play.
Loser Is Outplayed
. Evans outdrove, outapproached and
outputted Oumet through the last
twenty-one holes of the contest and
proved beyond the shadow of a doubt
that Chicago to-day can claim the
greatest amateur golfer in the world
In tournament where Tolley, Hope
and Wethered failed to qualify, where
Ounet beat Tommy Armour and
Bobby Jones, Evans alone survived.
There were three decisive stages to
Evans's victorious journev The first
came when he was battling in the
Western amateur and national open,
while Ouimet was waiting TO cast his
tate upon one supreme test. Evans
was developing the needed stamina and
steeling his soul through the white
heat of struggle. while Ouimet was
resting in his tent
The time has passed when any man
can win our amateur championship by
playing IN one big tournament without
any previous tests under fire
This summer training beneath the
harrage of competition was the first
stage
The second came OF Wednesday af-
ternoon, when the spectral hand of Des-
tiny took Evans by the neck and lifted
him from the quicksands Of certain de-
ieat. One down and ore to play against
keggie Lewis, a cool, game fighter,
Chick" missed two shots in success
SION on the decisive hole of the match
AS ne stood sixty yards from the baf-
Inlng green, with Lewis just over, the
last FIVE minutes longer, for he was
called upon to play two miraculous
snots III succession to live another
night.
he made these two shots just as the
curtain was about to ring down on his
ac:; He came safely through the dark
valley whore there seemed to be no
exit and where fate for moment
mad extinguished the last light.
Makes Uphill Fight
Evans groped his way from the bleak
wilderness Of early extinction into the
promised land Of glory where ninety
nine times out Of a hundred q Eardon
or Ray would never have survived
oa' with MS back to the wall on that
~ Yseasioh lnlck stuck and fought it out.
a. ns teVer wayered or gave up hope, and
s sns'; ne iinally survived the 41-hole
'eys ne was playing on velvet.
he was dead man who had been
"acned back 70 life by the wand of
conc come mysterious force After his suf-
.Ssnng in the valley of the shadow Of
osleat he has come back upon the
yfeat white light Of renewed hope. He
xaa oeen tried in the balance and not
Ioohd wanting. He had proved the
durability Of his own soul against the
AZ ssSpieme test. He was ready then for
'ae rest Of the journey, revived, re-
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