The evening world., 1920-09-08
Blu William Abbott.

lTTHE amateur golf championship
| at the Engineers Club reaches
the second round to-day and
also the stage where former national
title holders will begin to get the
hook. The feature match to-day will
bring together Bob Gardner, twice
holder of the premier trophy, and
w. c. Fownes of pittsburgh, veteran
former champion, who was winning
silver cups when many Of the present
young stars were still in their swad-
ding clothes. Tom Armour, the
Scotch holder OF the French title,
will tackle Phil Carter and a rough
time, and several others will line up
against stiff opposition.
II the second round is anything like
the opening days matches, the tour
, nament committee will have to sup
, ply shock absorbers. There were
many unusual spectacles In the open
ing session, Chick Evans. smiling,
confident, shooting around in 72 for d
new course record; Francis Ouimet
lighting desperately to shake off
young Richard Hickey, Jess Sweet
ser beaming all over as he eliminated
Ned Sawyer, Metropolitan champion;
but the one that made the most i'm
preston was the big, worried look
ing Dave Heron. who had to battle
three extra holes 20 defeat Pete Har-
mon, a twenty year-old graduate OF
the Van Cortlandt Park public links,
and prevent his national title chang
ing hands.
II any champion ever fought game
ly to retain his laurels it was this
same Heron. II was only a wonder
full combination OF nerve control and
grit that enabled the husky Pitts
burgh lad to weather the storm and
remain in the tournament.
In Pete Harmon, tall. slim youth
who failed to Qualify for the national
title at Oakmont in 1919 Heron
caught trouble from an unexpected
quarter. The New Yorker laid his
iron shots up beautifully and putted
like fend, a valuable trait on the
tricky Engineers greens, where many
bright hopes have been extingulshed.
Harmon finished the first eighteen
holes ] up on his stocky opponent.
The afternoon round was give and
take. Heron became 2 up on the
sixteenth, where Harmon missed a
short putt. The champion, dormie 2,
was apparently safe. He only had
to halVe the next hole TO cinch the
match. But his second shot on the
seventeenth missed the green and
stopped on a bank to the right. This
cost Heron the hole.
Both had flne drives on the eight
zenith. Heron, slipping for second,
| hooked his mashie shot and the ball
sailed high up on mound ana IN the
| midst OF the gallery. The recovery
ran over the green and fell into a
bunker. Harmon, nicely on in two,
easily won the hole.
HEBRON ONLY SAVED HIMSELF
BY DRIVING 315 YARDS.
On the first extra hole Heron only
saved himself by driving 315 yards.
Both had Is here. SEerrOn was CIV
ing himself plenty to do just now.
| He leaned on his tee shot on the
next hole and shot 1t way TO the
| left, far over on the fifteenth fair
way. It looked like curtains for the
champion, as Harmon was straight
down the falrway, but HERON played
high over a clump OF trees and got
on the edge of the green.
Harmon, over the green on his
second, approached so close to the
cup that the gallery exclaimed you
winl" But Heron still had his nerve
and holed a short mean putt for q
half Then came one Of those sud
den breaks that are common In golf
Harmon, Brinning widely, stepped or
the twenty-frst tee and promptly hi
two balls out of bounds. Both were
badly hooked and unplayable.
Guess that's enough" said Har
mon as he walked over to congratu'
late Heron.
"Close escape, Davey," said Her
ron's father as he caught UP with thu
perspiring victor.
"I'll say It was" answered thu
champion,
While Heron was besieged Will
woes Chick Evans, a strong favort,
for the title, enjoyed a Roman holi
day Evans opposed f. c. Newton,
veteran campaigner from Boston
Chicago Chick won eight and sever
and shot his first round in 72, new
, record Tor the difficult Engineers