Evening star., 1921-09-25

able brides ou the next four no
J halving the 29th.
Such an enormous gallery. esti-
mated at upward of 1000 persons.
followed the match this afternoon
that the players and referees We're all
but trampl ed under foot and the gal
lery swarIned onto the twenty-ninth
chance To hole his easy putt for an
easy victory, s up and 6, and they
halved it in four. making it up
and s.
Gardner Is the FnvOrite.
Gardner, who won the title in 1909
and 1915 and was runner-up to Chick
Evans in 1916, was an odds-on choice
his best game part of the way, how
ever, and he was ragged on the
green's most of the time, missing up
ward of dozen holsble puts.
while Guilford. who never before got
farther than the semi -tilxals. at which
point he was defeated by Gardner in
1916. played an unbeatable game on
the green's and made few errors else
where.
Gardner outdrove the Boston "siege
gun on nine holes. while Guilford
>eNceeded his opponent from the tee
ON Il like number.
The Boston player scored the long
est drive of the day. getting 800
yards on the fifteenth hole, where
Gardner was twenty yards behind
him. Gardnsy. had three drives of 500
yards or ntpre, while Guilford had
two
The drifting. however. had little to
do with ne result. although Gardner
lost the eleventh. twenty-fourth and
twenty-sixth through errors from the
tee. Neither did the irons bear much
no tina outcome. Putting had most to do
WITH the result. as the Chicagoan imi-
tated Chick Evans game of yesterday
by missing short ones with fire.
while Guilford missed few long ones
and almost never any short ones.
Driving Amazes Crowd.
Thus up to the green's it was a
battle royal, the crowd gasping in
awe as one tremendous drive after
another cracked from the tees and
rushing forward to see where the
cAddies planted white flag for Card
ner's ball and red one for Gull
1ord's. Then when one player would
snap an iron to the green. close to
the flag, only to have the other fire.
multitude. like herd of stampeded
steers, would fairly run for van
tage point around the sixty-foot
. square, only to see Gardner laborious-
: ly take two or three puts. while
Guilford not infrequently got down
in one, if close, and in two if barely
ON or even just off the green.
Then the throng. which openly ia
vored Gardner, groaned and dashed
to the next fairway to see the siege
Of Chicago whale out two more
= drives. 1t was a good-natured mob,
., if unruly at times, and coatless men,
gayly clad women and barefoot boys
hurried and Scurried from hole to hole.
The contest started evenly enough,
a n
ner winning the second hole with
perfect 8 and Guilford the third
in the same manner. Then they
halved two and again each won a
hole, but after halving the eighth in
par Gardner made the first turn 1
down because of topping his brassie
to the creek. Then he lost two in a
row. the eleventh, because of woods
and water. and he was never threat
ening thereafter. He dropped the
thirteenth by missing short putt
and the next two in the same manner.
After winning the short sixteenth
and halving the seventeenth the for
mer champion had to yield the eight
ing one of his long puts and quitting
for lunch. up. Guilford had scored
IS. 37-73, q remarkably low score at
the end of such a grilling tourna-
ment played in heat and rain.
Loser Receivers for Time.
=. In the afternoon Gardner showed
momentary signs of recovering his
losses by taking the nineteenth hole
with a par 4. the short twenty-first
with a perfect 3 and the twenty-sec-
j. ond with a after dropping the short
twentieth. He kept his opponents
lead to 4 up by halving the long
twenty-third. but a row of four
brides. while Gardner got only two
pars. made him 8 down at the turn
into the final nine.
Gardner cut this to z down when
the wizardry of Guilford's putter de-
serted him momentarily on the twen-
ty-eighth hole, but Guilford became
dormie 7 by halving the twenty
ninth in par. and grasped the crown
which Gardner had worn twice by
halving the short thirtieth.
Gardner had gone through the
tournament in good form and repelled
two dangerous foreign foes in T. B.
Armour of Scotland and Willie Hun
ter. British champion.
: The new champion, who takes the
crown, held by Evans for total of
four years by reason of a two-year
holdover during the war. won 1t by
the same score as Evans took il in the
final last year from Francis Ouimet.
in addition to defeating Harrison
johnson of st, Paul, who had ousted
ouimet, Guilford downed George Won
Elm of Salt Lake City, Trans-Misss-
sippi, 5 and 4: Dewey Weber of Chi
cago in the second round. and 2. and
Chick Evans in the semi-finals, z
and S.
GuilfOrd Long Prominent.
rTuilford won the New Hampshire
championship when a boy of fourteen
and he soon sprang into fame as a long
driver He has captured the Massa-
chusetts amateur, and open titles, once
defeating Ouimet in the final. He
has PLAYED in the national event sew
eral times in the last dozen years.
. If1s margin of victory today has
seldom been exceeded, the easiest VIC
tory being that of c. D. Mcdonald in
the first meet ever held in 1895. He
won from c. f. Sands at Newport
re and IL, while the closest contest
Was that in which Harold Hn'nn
OF Great Britain defeated Fred
TIArreshonf at Apa wants in 81 holes
for the only victory a foreigner ever