The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19
BOBBY JONES WINS 2 AND l OVER COCHRAN BUT CHARLES
 EVANS LOSES TO HUNTER 2-I
Hectic Golf Features Open ing Day Of Play In National Amateur Golf Tournament At Chicago

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 e CHICAGO Sept. 1S.-CBy the As seciated Press .)-After a day of hec- tic golf that threatened the extinc- tion of several favorites. all the na- tipnal and former national cham pions survived the first round of match play at 36 holes in the nation al amateur championship at Floss Haoor, except Chick Evans of Chi cago, who was eleminated by Willie Hunter of Los Angeles, formerly British title holder, 2 and 1.
 Only three of the matches were one sided, including the overwhelm- lrg victory of the incumbent titlist, Hess Sweetser of New York, who defeated Albert Seckel of Chicago. once intercollegiate champion, 10 and 9.
 ssAnother one sided match was that in which George Van Elm of Salt Lake City, formerly trans-Missis- ,sippi champion, downed Capt. E. r. Garter of Chicago, formerly Irish champion, and ', by shooting the best golf thus far displayed. making Nle first round in T1 or three bet ter than par. The other easy match went to H. K. B. Davis of San Fran fcIseo, who, although only two up at the end of IS holes. best George Blossom of Chicago, and 5.
 !. The national open champion, Bob- by Jones of Atlanta. did not have an easy time at any stage of the game. .barely holding T. B. Cochran of sWichita Falls Tex even on the first ,nlne, leading by one up al the end of IS holes and losing that advan- itage on the third nine. He finally Wlled ahead and after becoming dor mic 2, halVed the 35th hole to win ty a narrow margin of and 1. Al one time the Georgian was down to the Texan, but Cochran never got "a commanding lead.
 lAn even narrower escape was ex- perienced of Jesse Guilford of Bos- ton, title holder three years ago, fo, Louis Jacoby of Dallas, not only held him even for Is holes but after los ing hole to Guilford' on the third nine. yielded no further. taking the aBostonian to the 36th green where Ae won 1 up by halving that hole.
 Francis Ouimet of Boston, the tamer of Vardon and Ray in 1913, lost the morning round to Anthony aHaines of Rockford H.. being one down to the former Yale athlete at noon, but he took four holes from Haines in the first half of the after 1ioon session and turned into the home stretch up only to lose part of the advantage and finally finish winner and l.
 Bob Gardner of Chicago twice Winner of the title, won his match, lIpIn tSuuuy hneppeT or SIOUX City, la, by and l, lead that he ac- quired in the morning and refused to relnquish wholly, although the former Iowa champion, by shooting par 36 on the first nine of the afternoon round and scoring a birdie four on the 2Sth hole, cut Art Gard ner's lead to one up. But. after halving five holes in par, Knepper dropped the 34th and 35th by going one over par on each, and he was Out.
 4o Another former champion to get nt thl ough today's play was Dave Heron of Chicago. who won the stitle 5 years ago by defeating Bobby Jones in the finals at Oakmont. He had sn uphill battle with Russell Martin, a Chicago youth. who led Heron by two holes on the first nine and was even with him at the end of IS holes. Heron got lead of up on the third nine and in- creased 'this to up. at the S2nd hole. winning and 4. |.
 The seventh national title win ner in the contest, w. c. Fownes of Pittsburg, held the lead all day by narrow margin over Tom Frainey of Chicago and finally won and q
 The closest match of all, however. was that between the champions of Ohio and Michigan. who went 3S holes, before Joe Wells of East Liv- etpool won for the Buckeye state rom r.. C. W ells or Ann ArDor, the University of Michigan domaine weakening after he had led the other Wells most of the way.
 A spectacular match was staged by youthful expert from Wheeling, w Va. Densmore Shute and Eddie Held of St. Louis, trans Mississippi. champion. the former winning 3 and by shooting a fine 71 in the after neon. after he had been one down ali the end of the first round.
 peculiar incident probably changed seeming defeat into defea. of the West Virginia lad. who has rot had much tournament experi- ence- He had notch on matches today were at IS holes, so when he found himself four down and four to go in the morning, he unleashed all the golf he kned in a desperate effort to win the last four holes in row and square the affair. He did win the first three of the row, but finally missed long putt by hair for win on the 18th, and pleasant ly shook hands with Held to greet him as victor. When Held ex- planned that they had 8 holes more to go, Shute finding that he needed only to play desperately to over tme his opponent went out after luncheon and whaled out pars and bardies, until he was victor 3 and l
 In the other matches. Dexter Cum nlings of Chicago. intercollegiate champion, eliminated Harold Weber veteran player from Toledo and 4 and Ned Allis of Milwaukee oust- ed Art Sweet of Chicago, , and 8 Max Marston kept Philadelphia drumming by defeating John Simpson of Indianapolis and James Manion of St. Louis retained a chance to make St Louis a championship city by overcoming Francis Blossom ot Chicago, and 2.
 In the second round Guilford will meet Cummings. Heron will play Sweetser, Shute will face Allis, and Fownes will try his skill against Gardner in the upper half. In the other half Marston will play Jones. Wells will compete with Davis Ouimet with Hunter and Manion with Won Elm.
 Many of today's spectators followed Bobby Jones over the sodden course wnich an over night rain had made heavy although Bog Gardner drew a goodly crowd. But the largest gallery watched Evans go down before Hun ter's deadly run-up approaches and no fewer than five stymies. Without the stymies, Evans likely would have had a comfortable margin, for Hun ter was wild from the tee, driving three balls out of bounds on the sixth hole of the afternoon round, and allowing Chick to square the match for the first time.
 Evans did not play as well as he did Saturday and Monday, when he tied Bobby Jones for low medal score at 75-74-149, but he was better than Hunter, barring the stymies. The rugged Triton did not seem to mind the rough, however. and he ploughed fhrou1h if several times to even him.