New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-21
Chick Evans Makes Poor Start


An hour after Barnes and Duncan
had finished Chick Evans, amateur
champion, with another big gallery at
his heels started out for his test, the
first time he had played the course in
ever three years. The crowd was
al for Chick, but the Western amateur
began skidding for the first five holes
until it looked for a brief spell as if
his delayed appearance had been a
fatal move. Coming to the long fifth
after slipping at the first, third and
fourth holes, Chick was over the green
in 4, half way down the bank. He
was plainly worried and here
would have been fatal blow. From
below the bank, forty feet from the
cup, with a slippery green to traverse,
approach for par 5, waving his arms
in a wide circle as the ball dropped in.
This gave him new life, but even then
lie was out in 40 and still upon the
ragged edge.
At the eleventh he needed and sank
an eight-foot putt for 4. At the
long twelfth he hooked to one bunker
and came out 10 another, finally getting
en- in 5. But again his putting blade
came to his rescue and a twenty-five
footer cut q stroke from par. After
taking three puts at the fourteenth he
was told that even 4's for the last
four holes would bring him through.
Whereupon the spectacular Chick pro-
ceedcd to finish 4-2-4-3 for "a,
giving him IA for the round Murray,
the Canadian champion, qualified with
Evans and finished with a II, despite
an s on the long fifth hole.
Two stars VINO gave the gallery
heart failure were Bobbie Jones and
Leo Deigel. Jones opened with a 6
and closed out the ninth with 6,
while Deigel was struggling. and
struggling. They were still in danger
as they came to the seventeenth mole.
Here Jones, who needed desperate
~, failed to reach the top OF the pIa-
teau on his short approach. From halt
way up the hill he was eighteen feet
short on his third, but his bold bid
for mar 4 reached the bottom of the.
tin. On the last green Delgel, VINO
was still nervous, with 12-foot, putt
for 3. almost missed the ball, gong
onlv half the distance. His next at
tempt failed and so he took 5. But
they both slipped through after haunt
ing the score board all day.
Harding in Gallery To-day
With the qualifying test over the
NrSt OF inc 1OIIy -IouA P"..
viii be under way at 8 o'clock to-mor-
row morning, when, it is announced 70
night. that President Harding Will De
one of the gallery. Hutchlson ana
Kirkwood are the only two members
Of the six paired, and they will take
big gallery at 10:30. -, Wet
Abe Michel is linked with Emmet
French. while Walter Hagen is the
first Of the favorites to start with Nell Nell
son Whitney at o'clock. Theirs W VA
be at least ten notable matches TO toa-
low, SO the rolling, billowy landse1aps,
Nth its knobs and valleys, will BE
clustered with pursuing humanity an
day long, as reports fly back and form
that this star and that is tearing par
into shreds and turning miraculous
figures. Either that or the sadder story
that some favorite has found woe IN
bunker or the woods and his chancs
has gone where the woodbine twlneth
and the whangdoodle mourns IN ms
despair.
The big six are not the only ones s,
Keep your eye upon Mike Brady, JACK
Burke and other home breds, or pos
sibly upon Evans, Jones and whitney
from the amateurs. The struggle is
too evenly balanced to call for any an,
forecast, where a single putt may tell
the story of triumph or defeat.