The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-29
EVANS WINS TITLE EN WESTERN MEET
 FOR EIGHTH TIME
Title Holder Defeats Gardner Of Buffalo In Finals,
 6 And 4

CLEVELAND O., July 2S-Chick Evans today won the Western anna teur championship foc the eighth time by defeating Hamilton Gardner of Buffalo, 6 up and to play al the Mayfield Country club. To make his eighth victory the greatest number in any golf clasic ever won by any one he waded through a fine field, including the national champion, Jess Sweetser, who pushed Evans to better than par golf as did Gardner most of today.
 Gardner played excellent golf ex citing the admiration, openly ex- presented of Evans who played four better than par on the 16 holes finished in the morning round and was three under for the Is holes he finished in the afternoon. The cham pion just steadily frightened up on his younger opponent until with birdle two on the short 31st he became dormie 5.
 With the high hill of the fifteenth hole to climb unless the match ended at the thirty-second green. Chick studied his approach, snapped into it crisply and he would have defied a sharpsAooter to send a bullet straigh- ter for the cup The ball was well out when it struck four feet from the hole and stopped within 30 inches of the pin, thus applying the last drop of the Lethal dose to Gardner's s vanishing hopes for he was in a trap and after two tries Dicked up.
 Not only did Evans play we'll under par to down the doughty Gard ner, but he laid his younger opponent four stmies Tn the 32 holes, winning the thirtieth hole by virtue of one, halving only the twenty sixth, de- spite another which Gardner cut around for three from eight feet away and conceding the other two, which might have put Gardner farther back in the race.
 The contest was remarkable in that although the holes played out made a total better than perfect figures, four holes were conceded be- cause they had been ruined by bad play or unluchy Abreaks. Evans and Gardner both drove into the creek on the 415yard fifth hole, and Evans had to drop back. He went again from a faulty lie and conceded the hole, for he could not have done bet ter than six or seven, while Gardner was pretty sure of five.
 l At the long eleveINh hole, Gardner | again was never forced to play to | the green, as Evans got in a bunker. | hooked to a dense woods and fai/ to get out on his third, conceding the hole when only half way to the green On the twenty eighth hole, Evans uIlNe was oll lHt tuS6 ol d lIdp -oU yards from the green andshe chose to slice brassie to the green from the left side. Standing well behind his 1 ball. which was so close to the pit he could not take a square chance he made the shot beautifully, but il went five feet too far and was Ii a deep sand trap whence he failed tc recover in two attempts, so he con- ceded. And finally on the last hole played Gardner never got on the green, having put his second in { trap and his third in another, while Evans was dead in two and needed only a half to win.
 q From th match standpoint, Evan! played about as tight game as yes terday against Jess Sweeter, al
 though his golf seemed to com' easier and he was never down tc Gardner. The champion got the leaC on the first hole and Gardner never was able to square the match, finish. ing tlte first nine tNo down, the frs round three down and the twenty seventh five down.
 The golf throughout the week O
 the tournament was good. Jes