Evening star., 1921-07-21
CHICK EVANS FINDS
Z REAL PUTT|NG.EYE..
Amateur Champion Fairly
ScintiIIates on Greens in
Qualifying Round.
BY ". n. McCALLUM.

The metamorphosis of the tadpole
| into the full-fedg. frog has nothing
on the transformation of Charles
Evans, jr.. United States amateur
| champion, from one Of the worst put
ters in the country to one Of the best.
Chick. who holds the two major
amateur titles Of the country-the ma
tional amateur and the western ANA
teur-proved his putting ability with
out question in the qualifying round
yesterday. Turning with a card OF 40
for the out nine, Chick faced rugged
! task He knew he had to negotiate
the second nine Of the Columbia course
in 38 or better to stay In the tourna-
ment. Chick locked them over care
fully on the second nine holes and
putted himself into the tournament.
Puts that strayed away and would
not drop on the first nine hole APP
peared to be drawn into the cup as
If by a magnet on the second nine.
Using the mongrei Schenectady putter.
which made it's first appearance In the
bag of the champion at the Engineers
course last year. Evans found himself
unable to miss q putt on the incoming
nine.
Play ON Fairway Weakens.
His play through the fairway-
usually the most brilliant part of his
rame-faded gradually on the last
nine holes. But Chick didn't need to
worry with his magic putter working
hn QftAr
he had just missed the bunker at the
he trimmed the cup for birdie 8.
Chick never was on the fairway at
the eleventh hole. yet he secured par
4. What's the use OF playing hne
drives and irons when a man can an
as he surveyed the greens. which had
| suddenly turned from his worst
enemies into his best friends.
The champion sliced his tee shot et
| the eleventh into a trap and played his
second shot Into another trap: From
the second trap he Clipped up to with
in ten feet Of the hole and ran down
the putt. At the thirteenth Chicks usu-
ally fine iron shot was hooked into
trap, yet he ran down SIX .footer Tor
four-one over par-and at the sixteenth
he 1ioled another eight -footer for q two.
Chicks crowning performance, how
ever. came on the eighteenth. where.
faced BY a gallery Of about a thousand
persons. he sank a twenty-footer for
| a scintillating three-oneunderp par
giving him "a and surety OF being
! in the list Of men who qualified for
| the final two days play.
How He Once Missed 'Em.
Chick, as every one who has watch
ed him in previous years is aware. was
for years one Of our leading experts
| in the matter Of missing puts. Chick
could take more puts around the
| greens when he was not in q putting
mood-and that was very seldom
| than some motor cars can develop rat
ties after the factory guarantee has
run out.
! Things are quite different these
days-that IL, as regards Chicks putt
ing. The amateur champ hits his ball
( differently He puts with implicit
onfidence-nonchala withal-and
the ball finds the bottom Of the cup
more frequently than it did in years
agone. Chick lays his improved puttA
ing to the careful coaching Of K. L.
| (Snake1 Ames, the old Princeton foot
bail player, who Is . careful student
Of golf. A couple Of years ago <mes
took Evans in hand after particular
lily weak exhibition Of putting, put this
mongrel schenectady affair In his hand
= and told him TO hit the ball as II he
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