Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-31
AMERICAN SLMON-PURE
20 GOLFERS SUPREME
Had Edge British amateurs but Pros abroad Made Clean
Up-Chick Evans Ranks No.
BY SANDY McNIBLICK


vTHE international golf invasions and
i countcrinvasions Of the past season
Strengthened out finally. with the bulge
in favor of America in the amateur
realm and the balance favoring Great
Britain in the open championships.
Ted Ray won the American open and
George Duncan the British title. Amer.
icn finished second and fifth, respcc-
lively.
Ray, the Briton. led Harry Vardon.
fellow countryman; Leo Dicgel and
Jnck Burke. homebreds. and Jock
Hutchinson all tied for second by
single stroke Mt Toledoy where tho
American open was held. Ray scored
295 strokes.
Diegel and Hutchinson both had long
putts on the seventy second hole for
birds. and tie with Ray, but both
puts were missed. and Ray took the cup
overseas.
For the amateurs, Chick Evans tied
with Jim Barnes for sixth and seventh
places with 29S, and Bobby Jones was
close behind, tied with Willie McFar-
lane, the pro. at 200. Walter Hagen.
who was,deposed as champion. tied with
Clarence Hackney: the, only pro Of the
Philadelphia district clubs. to qualify.
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twelfth places.
Bobby Comes Cropper
Evans had meantime oustcd Bobby
Jones from the western amateur, win
| ming that event, though Jones captured
| the medal with sterling card Of 100
strokes for the thirty six hole qualify
ing round
Their play in the western and ma
4 H.. 60 40,
10 win the national amateur. which was
played in early September over the
Engineers course at Roslyn. l.. I. Half
the qualifying round was played at
North Shore. Bobby Jones lived up to
his reputation by tying for the medal
with Freddy Wright, another yOungstcr
and Massachusetts, champion. They tied
at 1874 strokes, 1916.
A feature of this round was the fact
that only four Britons entered quail
fed. British Champion Cyril Tolley,
Roger Wethered and Lord Hope failed.
Tom Armour. Scotch and French ANA
teur champion, did the trick, but was
beaten in the third round by Francis
0uimet. "
Though nearly all the Philadelphia
leaders entered the play, only five of
them qualified. 1t was fine showing,
however, and J. Wood Platt. in par.
ticular. furnished some of the most
spectacular playing of the event. Three
down to Maurice Risley in the morn,
ing of the first round, Platt turned
tbe tables on his conqueror at Shawnee,
up.
Two down in the morning to Dave,
Heron, then champion. Platt played
some Of the most remarkable, shots OF
his young life to oust the champion,
and /. Four down to Ned Allis in
the third round, Platt oil but won the
match, thirty foot puts by Allis alone
keeping Platt out Of the semifnals the
next day where he would nave met
Chick Evans.
Platt's rapid, fighting. expert style
drew a crowd at his heels every day.
He was the only player from Philadel-
mia 70 reach the third round. and was
big boost for this city's golf there
Hofrner Shines
George IIoffner all but beat Tom
Armour in the first round by wonder
ful comeback after being badly down.
Hoffner lost on the thirty sixth hole,
d down.
Meredith Jack, Merton, gave Reuben
Bush a bad beating in the first round,
but Ouimct beat the local man soundly
lin the second round. Marston lost to
Phil Carter the first day.
Bob Gardner, American runner up III
the British amateur, gave {. Is. Grier,
canadian champion. dire lacing in the
tirst round, 0 and 7. There were many:
many exciting moments in the play all
week and the climax came Saturday
when Francis Ouimet, after beating
bobby Jones quite thoroughly, met
Chick Evans in the final.
Evans finished the morning last nine
|in 80, got to the turn of the afternoon
In "a, and played the twenty eighth IN
b bird ., which gave him total of II
STROKES for nineteen consecutive holes.
Chick was on rampage and, as
Ouimet said later, "nobody can beat
him when he's on n rampage The
season ranking would place Evans first,
Ouimet second and Jones third.
Evans came to Phi ladelphia shortly
afterward to play against Vardon and
Raw with Marston at Merton. Six
Thousand fans saw some of the best
golf of the year here that day. After
being down in the morning the British
pros won the match on the last green In
The afternoon.
The day before they beat Jack Ho-
bens and Dwight Armstrong, the pro
amateur pair. at Huntingdon Valley in
q brilliant match before great throng
and followed up with win at Aronl