New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-09

ter J. Travis and Wilder, of Massachu-
sets. went to forty holes at Garden
City before the former finally won. Yes
terday Evans and Lewis set new
championship record, when the worn and
weary "Chick" sunk his two-foot putt
on the forty-trst green after the equally
worn and weary Lewis had taken three
puts and had missed his final bid by
an inch.
"Chick's" short attempt fluttered in.
Auttered out again and then, as if inn
hued with the WEAKNESS of both the
gallery 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 concen-
trated human emotion than it does in
the way of technical golf.
Squares Match at SD
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 finish 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 gal
leries, scentng the possibility of
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 shot where Evans struck
of far swipe down the middle of the
half blind fairway. Lewis, forced to
play short Of the guarding ditch, had
little chance for a half But Evans's
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and finally trickied into the heavy grass
fringing the foot of the green.
Lewis at this point proved again that
he was golfer of both raw nerve and
rare class. He pitched boldly to the
cup with enough backspin to hold his
ball only six feet away, and when
Chick Clipped out twenty feet short of
the pin all his advantage had been
wiped away. His putt failed to go
down, and then Lewis turned bad
start into fine finish by holing his
six-footer for a par 4. He was then
up in place of being l down.
Once again at the seventeenth, after
he had Clipped By the cup on his third,
Lewis had to hole a ten-foot, curling
putt to hold his advantage, and when
the ball dropped in the lusty shout
that went up gave full approval to his
cool, game stand
Makes Desperate Stand
Evans was now / down with but one
mole Leland it was at this hole that
the Western star made the most des-
perate stand to stay in thatohe has ever
made II his tournament experience of
twelve years. Both hit two good drives
down the middle, with Chick trife
short and trife to the left. Just
few seconds after his club crashed into
the ball the ball crashed into a gap of
ancient oaks we'll 10 the left of the
green and bounded back some sixty or
seventy yards from the green.
The crash o. the ball against the
tree limbs seemed to reecho like the
voice OF doom, 50 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 final green could conceive of any
thing but victory for Lewis
But Evans refused to quit. He pitched
down the slope ten feet beyond the
PIN, leaving himself sloping, treach-
erous putt over the hardest green in
the course to manipulate. Lewis, TAX
Ing his time, coolly Clipped down with
m eight feet OF the cup
1t was then up to Evans. He had to
get his putt and his opponent had to
mlss, Or the lights were out of the
Western star. Evans started his putt
+. .. good three feet above a straight
line to the hole. The bali took the