New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

stored and reincarnated against what
ever test the game might have.
These were the first two stapes Of
Chicks progress up the last stcen
slope to the emblem crowned HILL
Facing Ouimet he stood as the West
ern amateur champion and the leadino
amateur in the open championships
racing Ouimet he knew that he could
more than match the great Bostonian
from the tee to the green--that he was
MS master or at least his peer, with
wood and iron. But there must have
been always that haunting doubt that
oulmet would overcome this margin of
superiority by finer putting on the
rolling, slanting green's.
Evans knew within his soul that
Oulmet ordinarily was the better put
ter But when Chick saw in the early
stages of the match that the Easterner
was putting without confidence, was
constantly short-that he lacked for
this one day the old masterful touch
within sight of the pin-then the
shadow of harassng doubt was lifted
and Evans was ready to step forth, un-
hampered and at ease, for the conquer
ing drive to victory.
Braces After Ninth Hole
"hen Evans saw at the ninth hole
IN the morning round that he was
holding his own with Ouimet M on he the
greens his expression upon the tenth
tee was like that of some explorer
who has at last come upon the borders
Of new land which he had travelled
long to find. For more than twelve
months the memory of that one-hole
defeat by Ouimet in the last cham
pionship had ranked in Evans's mind,
and he saw at last that his time had
come to wipe out the old slate and
write new record upon its surface.
For nine holes both had struggled
through bad golf after the manner of
two fighters sparring to find sn OPP
ponent's weakness. Evans found this
:ieakness IN the place he wanted it to
be around the pin-and from that
point on he played such superb golf
that no living master Of the game
could have kept pace with him.
After the first nine Of the last twen-
sy-one no les played, Evans had one 2,
four 3s, fourteen As, and but two SIS.
He played these last twenty-onc holes
in 80 strokes and upon one occasion
after another he was putting to beat
par. He played eighteen consecutive
holes over one of the hardest scoring
courses in the world in SO strokes-35
home in the morning and 81 back in
the afternoon.
AT the rate he was going and judg-
ing by the way he was hitting mis- shots,
he would have been around in the af-
ternoon no worse than g.
Inc vital statistics attached to
Evans's play show that he did not take
three puts on single green of the
xt,boc a.;
two puts on five greens. They also
show that Evans was in the rough but
once and In trap but once all day,
while Ouimet was frequently forced to
Joust in the sand filled traps or slash
his approaches from the heavy crass
or the course. Evans's accuracy from
the tee and through the fairway was
remarkable, while his opponent was
constantly struggling off the course.
Ouimet Rallies Slightly
Through the last nine holes Of the
morning round Evans got the jump he
was looking for by coming through the
seventeenth green, 3 up. He was over
under even 4s, while Ouimet had slim
ped on both fairway and green. Ouimet
cut this lead down to two holes NV
planting a par-beating approach at the
long eighteenth, within three feet OF
the cup for his birdie 3. And so he
/ started the afternoon Journey only 2
down and therefore close enough to get
| back this deficit quickly IL the cards
were right.
But, starting the afternoon round.
Evans offered Ouinet just what Ov.met
had handed Evans year ago. In sheir
afternoon match at Oakmont Cuimct
went cut in "a, with no less than Ave
| IS IN the first nine holes. On this oc-
casion Evans also went out In 81. and
! when he added TO his advantage on the
first few holes Evans started the final
| journey with supreme confidence. He
had the touch and he knew It.
On the first hole in the afternoon
round "Chick" ran an approach putt
| dead from fifty feet away, with Oufmet
facing n possible 3. When the West
| erner became up a& the second hole,
through two fine shots matched against
an overapproaeh by the Eastern golfer,
tsoss looking for ouimet rally began
| To shake their heads. The other man
! was doing ths ralIy,ng. When Ouimet
took three usts on the third hole and be.