The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-28
Evans Will Meet Gardner In Championship Round Over Mayfield Course Today

Chr< ElLANIi OnlOs July Si-- NDy Associated Press. )-Msslng an 1S inch putt on the second extra hole after running up dead from all over the green all day and sinking many long ones today, cost Jess Sweetser, national champion, his golf match with Chick Evans in the semi-hnals at Mayfield club of the western anna teur championhip, which Evans has defended for the seventh time.
 Sweetser, after leading much of the forenoon round was overhauled and put one down at the eighteenth by Chicks fine round of 69, but he in turn overhauled an Evans lead of three up and squared the match at the thirty sixth, only to lose at the thirty eighth by failing to sinN wisp of a putt for a half in the five on the 340-yard hole. He had just saved himself on the 3S5 thirty-sey- enth by holing a 12-foot putt for half in par four.
 It was a dingdong battle of the links from start to finish, both com hitting faults and playing supernat- ural golf at times in what they con- sidered a return meet for the defeat Sweetser administered to Evans last year at Brookline in the national championship where the Yale stu dent overcame Evans three and two in the finals.
 As a result of his victory over the national champion, Evans will play Hamilton Gardner of Buffalo in the finals tomorrow, the New Yorker having eliminated Joe Wells of East Liverpool. Ohio, four and three, in fine match that was almost forgotten on account of the 36-hole thriller.
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 Large Gallery.
 A large gallery ot gayly bedecked women and eager men followed the Gn int hp plnGR scrimmage that many spectators in their eagerness to hang to every shot lost their balance and plunged down the steep cliffs that line many Of the fairways. At one hole on the top of a precipice, Sweetser pulled his long iron into the gallery, but hurt no one. although the crowd kept the ball from going over the cliff. This rub of the green did hi mno good for Evans was all but down in two while Sweetser was 12 feet away on the like.
 Evans had lost the fifth, sixth and seventh holes in the morning after halving the first four and was three down, but turned for home two down after halving the eighth in two and wining the ninth with a birdie three. He was again three down on the tenth, where he was trapped but re- covered two holes by winning the eleventh and twelfth with a par five and a birdie two Evans squared the match on the sixteenth with birdie three and adjourned for lunch con one up by winning the eigh- teenth with a birdie four, having gone out in 35 and back in 34 for a 69. three under par and within stroke of the course record, set by Sweetser last Monday. Sweetser had gone out in 33 equalling the rec ord for the first time and was home in 37, one over par for TO, two under perfect figures.
 Evans had committed some faults even in scoring 69, and he had had some bad breaks for out of a half dozen chances to sink ten to twelve foot puts, he had failed every time, while Sweetser had got homo some long butts.
 Evans Gets Breaks.
 In the afternoon Evans got some good breaks, but committed more faults than his opponent.
 Evans won the nineteenth hole by holding a long putt for a birdie three and the twentieth for a par after pitching dead from a trap in three while Jess flugged his drive into the hillside of the blind hole and took five. leaving Chick a lead of three up. Jess put beautiful brassie sec ond on the green at the 4S5 yard twenty first while Chick from an
 
 lost five to four.
 The defender kept his lead of two up at the short twenty-second by halving in par three, but dropped margin of one when Sweetser after slicing to the creek put beautiful Iron on the greens as in the morn ing, while Chick likewise, as in the morning, was over the carpet and took another five. And each having been a maximum of three up thus far. neither ever again got to be more than one up They halved the 515- yard twenty-fourth in birdie four. both reaching the green in two amidst the plaudits of the now high iy excited gallery
 They both drove well for the 345 yard twentyfifth, SWeetser this time, out doing Evans 300yard drive, which he duplicated from the first round, but the son of old Eli squared the match by pitching to within n few feet of the cup and holing birdie three while Chick had to be Iatisfied with par. Evans went one flown on the 160yard twenty-sixth when. after dropping 20 feet over the Y Flag, his comeback hit Sweetzer's ball half way to the hole and he took four, conceding Jess the chance to hole in three.
 The struggle was beginning to tell Dn the two players and they both had trouble in getting five on the 450yard twenty seventh, where Evans had won with q birdie three in the first circuit. Evans had taken 37 out to Sweetser's 35. Like their duplication of shots on the fifth. D. they again played the tenth alike, Evans, this time after pushing his long iron in the trap chipping out dead for a half in birdie four.
 They had to take five each on the e2b-yQr0 twenty ninth for hOth pulled to the rough a trifle short of the green on their brassie second and clipped up short Sweetser this time avoided the dense woods in which he enmeshed his second in the afternoon.
 Evans Squares Match.
 Evans squared the match at the 2S0-yard thirtieth with perfect three, while Sweetser pulled his tee shot so vciously that it would have gone down a 50-foot cliff if it had not struck in the gallery Again they halved the 220-yard hole in par three and then both drove we'll down the thirty farway, which ends in a narrow strip between a rocky cliff and creek with pits on both sides.
 Chick was on the green hole high in two. 20 feet to the right of the flag, but Jesse pulled to trap and was short in three. He overran the cup several feet in four and picked up when Evans sank his par four to take a lead of one up again.
 The advantage was short-liVed, for Chick hooked his spoon tee shot through the gallery to the left of the fairway on the 370-yard thirty-third and his ball landed in grove of trees, directly behind enormous trunks, which blocked the way to the yuhI la