Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-24
GARDNER-GU|[FORD
MATCH ALL EVEN
Rivals for National Amateur
Golf Title Each Win Hole
and faIve Another
BIG GALLERY SEES MATCH

twice Massachusetts amateur champion
and once open titleholdcr there. was all
square with Bob Gardner, Chicago, at
the fourth too of their match here to-
day in the final round for the amateur
golf championship of the United States.
An enormous gallery witnessed the
play between these two mightiest hit
ters in the ranks golf amateurs.
Both Gardner and Guilford started
of in slugfcst, each trying to keep
up with the other and not lose any pos
siblc advantage from the tee.
Hole I. 800 yards, par 4-GuiforI
drov2 close TO the road for 30 yards,
while Gardner hooked 10 deep rough and
Iushcd his iron forty yards short of the
nag. GuiIford pulled tn Il vale below
tne green and pitched over the cup
eighteer feet. while Gardner was twelve
feet over. GuiIford holed fora !. while
Gardner alto went down and halv"d.
Hole 2, 221 yards, par 3-I;oth irons
were on the green. but Guilford was
fifty feet short. while Gardner was orly
fifteen feet shy. but had TO putt over y
ridge. lie almost holed >. but Guil-
FORD was ton feet over in aud tool;
to Gardn"r's 3. Gardner up,
Hole 3, iSd yards, par 3-tiardncr
having the honor, pushed his nridiron to
the verge Of Tho green aStridn dccp
trap indcnting the green. He had tc,
pitch his first putt across the chaem
and was ten feet away. GuilfOrd rolled
dead and Gardner failed to hole in ),
All square.
They survived the semi final round
over a water soaked course with
driving rain beating down on the field.
Guilford stopped Evans, amateur golf
champion of the United States. 6 up
and . to = lay. while Gardner was ) up
and to play on Hunter. amateur golf
champion Of Great Britain.
Guilford has been pounding at the
door Of the championship for long
time. He won the New Hampshire
title as boy Of fourteen. and reached
the semi finals Of the national cham
plonshp in 1916. He has won the
Massachusetts title twice and also has
captured the State open crown, and was
among the American invaders of Great
Britain last summer. but lost to Cyril
Tolley, former British champion, .
and 1.
Gardner won the title in 1909 and
1919 and was runner up to Evans in
ToIlcy last year after going to an extra
hole.
There was little doubt about the re.
suit of either match after the noon in
termission when Guiford had Evans
3 up.
Evans was not able to putt at any
stage of the contest and after watching
one short putt after another refuse to
go down while Guilford sank his ball
from all parts Of the green. the cham
pions game went stale. It was not
Evans poor game that lost for him. for
he played well enough most of the way
to win an average contest.
The Boston player proved good
mud horse. playing as we'll as though
the green's were not seas Of water into
which the balls dug almost out of sight
at times.
Guilford played about the best golf
of his career, although he did not
need It.
Evans played carefully and tried his
best to get his game back. hut it was
no use. He acted like u man who bad
stiff muscles, although he offered no
alibi, saying that it was not his day.
The heavy rain that started at dav-
break vas falling In torrents when the
matches started, and a fash Of light
ming that NhivcrPd a tree nearby caused
both Gardner and Hunter to miss their
drives from the first toe and take sixe~
for the first hole. u was drcar,
affair. the large galleries Of preyiou~
days giving way to small Coteric of
persons who moved along with the
dripping players under umbrellas that
gave the crowd the SCmblancc Of
patch of black mushrooms. Women
onlOokers were drenchpd 10 the skin
like every one else on tho course.
Gardner never gave the Brton
rhanCe and took revenge for his failure
10 lift tho British title last year. Tho
American showed his championship
ralihor by scoring Il rs in the morning
round