The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-02-28
CHICK EVANS GREAT
BOOK ON GOLF GAME
National Amateur Champion WIN Pubs
ush Book That Has NecsssitAt1d
Lifetime Study

| Tvcntv wears ago Charles tCh!"H)
Evans. Jr. present western and nati".:al
amateur golf champion. started to t"'h-
er material for 81 hook on golf. He i:'t-
.sh.d writing t this winter. and 1t l.; 10
,.I,c published March ].
i "ChIrk Evans Coli liook"-thAts ihc
,,tI.--was begun Oh tho ink Of do
Old Edgcwater Golf Gu in Chicago. I
course now covered with apartment
buildings. Chicl; didn't know then 'nt1
;hr notes hr was always ScrIbh'lnS
would furnish the copy for the most
unIqur contribution - tho scottish
gam, ever put between covers. lie NILS
Simply imhuCd with one idea. and tHtC
wls la permit nothing 10 escape MN.
Whn, ne SAW on III" links as Z cAddio
hr jDti"d down and tiled away.
Somcriul"S Chick made mistakes. h"-
/ r.~sjrrally he mckci out the wrong Go!-
/ fer a. a moGcl. Then he had to bcS'n
all over again. He copied the swing %
noted p,a,crS u: that period and put
hi. impression down on paper. Then
10 started to practice. lie repeated that
SWING - million times, he says. ana
made careful nota,ionS OF how he pro-
crossed and why, only to discover a.
q later date that those mllllon SWINGS
We're all wrong.
IL itiIaal' sLhC w -
cha mpion at an age when most golfers
begin their game. but he never ceased
h,ing q student. After each match he
wrr,r dow wha; he had learned, and
uriJr never prevented him from chang
ing his style. After long and patient
rrIrticr lie once worked out 4 grip
which he considered perfect. and which
contributed TO his winning champion
. ships. ON his first trip around he found
| that Harry Nardon had a better one. 1t
! Look him six months 10 unlearn the old
! one.
The persistcncy which has marked
his career on the links is reflected
! through tho 400 odd pages Of his book.
! lie left nothing TO chance. With him
i, was TO be shown" Results alone
counted. \ style. backed by years. was
dronpcd in a day # a new style contrib
utrd to ;he clipping Of a stroke OF me
| course record.
4 remark overheard by him on the
links while 4 caddic that his persists
cncv would make him a champion, IL
nothing else, was never forgotten. It
was that a. much rs anything else
which started him on his notes. In
time this accumulated information
brought him title after title. at homo
and abroad. and eventually MADE MN
the lone American posSessor OF the t"l-
lcr'S Double Crown"
Printers INK mas now made q per
uaucr. record Of what Chick saw ana
, learned during tt" transition period OF
the game. Fortified by the mass OF
material. biographical. historical and
technical. I've has written a book unlike
any which has gonc before. The story
brings out in vivid style. not only the
nicturrSouc career of the author "ho'
with pure do~Egcdncss and without q
single golf lesson. made himself a chsm-
MON but historically ana technically it
IS invaluable.
VIVA, twenty years Of golf has tauSht
has hccu boiled down by Chick INTO t"o
Lapters on instructions. Shots ana
how ,n make them" and Clubs and no"
Ia use them" tell it all. explanatory
photographs cmhcllish the text. ln"re
arc ~;Nty-tiyc Of these fuli page li'n~-
trat,ons. Included is a picture or me
worlds greatest golfer and a stri"nS
III, of scenery on the most dihi'uit
course IN the world.
Chick Evans Golf Book Is punii>''ra
by Tho Reilly s. Lee 60. Tor lho|. r..
Wilson Co. In presenting this oo"s 20
ihc cUlrins world the Wilson houS" IS
making A contribution Of inestin'ao'e
value TO the game.