New-York tribune., 1922-09-03
Tales of a Wayside Tee
By GRANTLAND RICE
Copyright. 1888. Nsw York Tribune 1--we

Once more the golf domain is in ths
throes of an amateur championship
with all its drama, thrills, upsets
tragedies and the forty other things
that go to make this one of the great
est of all weeks in the calendar of golf
| AS we look back over the past cham
plonshlps that we have followed by hill
and valley, stream and wood, there is
IN each still lingering memories of in.
cldents that never can be forgotten, of
certain thrills that caught and held
Naturally there comes in the wake of
these memories the anticipation OF
further episodes of like nature as each
championship comes on.
For golf is no game to be igured in
advance. You can make your guess
but you can never tell just how long
it will last.
In 1918 at Garden City we recall the
prediction that Jerry Travers would
win. And then in the qualifying round
we stood and watched him facing a
seven foot putt to get on a par 8
finishing hole, to tie for last place.
He qualified by the margin of an eye
lash and then went on through to
triumph.
The Quick Shock
In 1914 at Ekwanok, Francis Ouimet
was on the verge of defeat by Max
Marston and Bill Fownes, only to sur
vive each match by stroke. Then he
romped in.
We recall year later offering a
small wager on Travers, Evans and
ouimet against the field The wager
was taken with much hesitation by the
other party. Whereupon Evans was
beaten in the first round, with Ouimet
and Travers eliminated in the second,
where at that time they looked to be
the class of the field
There are not MANY who can forget
the Evans-Lewis match in the 1920
championship at the Engineers.
Evans came to the final hole / down
and to play. Here Lewis hit two
fine shots to the edge Of the green.
Evans hooked his tee shot to the right
Of the course and from there hooked
his second into group of majestic
oaks, far out of line, in his desperate
effort to reach the green. When his
second shot started for those oaks the
ODDS against him might easily have
been DO to l. But the ball struck a tree.
bounded back into the course and by
fine mashie shot and a miraculous
twelve-foot side hill putt Chick squared
the match. The duel ended on the
forty-first hole, leaving Evans intact to
survive. and finish with the great game
ne used to overpower Ouimet.
Great Matches
Two of the greatest matches we have
ever seen were between Ouimet and
Evans at Oakmont in 1919 and Bobby
Jones and Willie Hunter last fail.
The Evans-Ouimet match was all
square in the forenoon, each having
73s. In the afternoon round Ouimet.
over the long Oakmont course. had
five IS in the first eight holes, vet
Evans hung on and was only 9 down
at the turn. The match was all square
coming to the thirty-ffth hole, where
both made spectacular approaches and
got 3s. The finish came when Ouimet
came out of bunker and sank mis-
putt on the final green.
The Jones-Hunter match had
dramatic finish also. Jones had all the
better of the forenoon round, although
he was only 2 up, Hunter averting "a
landslide by brilliant putting
In the afternoon round they came
to the long thirteenth hole ell square.
Hunter looked to have this hole won
when Jones jumped trap and Hum
ter's second caught trouble. Then be-
fore any one knew precisely what had
happened Hunter won the next three
holes ard Bobby faded from the tour
ney.
At Brookline
What thrills and what upsets has
Sroekline to offer this next week I