The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
BREAKS BEAT OSBUN J
 NV CHICAGO TOURNEY
All Southerners Eliminated In Second Round; ;,
 Chick Evans Wins Through

CHICAGO, July 23.-Four Chicago golfers, including the defending cham pion, Chick Evans, three St. Louis players and the Minnesota champion, | survived today's match rounds in the western amateur golf championship at Hinsdale Golf club. all three southern contenders and 17 Chicagoans including two former national title-holders hay ing been eliminated.
 Nearly all the winners had to shoot par or better to overcome their oppo- | nents. In the case of Bob Gardner of Chicago, who has won the national title twice, even par golf did not suffice, for E. H. Bankard of Chicago, except for two holes, bettered perfect figures and won by one up. Bankard later was overwhelmed by H. R. Johnston of St. Paul, who clipped three strokes off par on the first nine for 32, and with only 4S strokes for 13 holes, in- cluding five birdies, overwhelmed the conquerer of Gardner, six and five.
 Another similar performance was staged by A. E. Knepper of Chicago, former Iowa champion and Princeton star, who downed former national SAoA1PAOhS DdbC HI tue ing by the wide margin of seven and five, only to run into "a tartar in the person of another Princeton player, Burton Nudge of Chicago, who by cracking par overcame Knepper, ? and 1.
 SOutherners Lose
 It was bad day for the southern contenders, five of whom had qualified with good scores on Monday and Tues day. Jack Wenzler and Frank Dyer of Memphis, survived the morning round as did Douglas Hill of Cincinnati, al. though Wenzler had to go 19 holes to defeat l.. V. Cochran of Chicago, and Hill had to travel 21 holes to over come George Dawson of the University of Illinois. Keefe Carter of Oklahoma City, the sole Oklahoman in the match play, died hard, carrying E. F. Garter of Chicago, 21 holes. I. J. Osbun of Birmingham, fell before the fine game displayed by L. E. Burning of Chicago, only to see his conquerer later eliminat- ed by B. F. Carter, 6 and 4.
 Nine Chicagoans out of 21 survived the first round and two of the St. Louis quintet were eliminated in the first IS holes. Three of the five southern play. CTS survived after Keefe Garter of Okla. homa City, and I. J. Osbun of Birming- ham, had been eliminated. The only other survivor geographically was Johnston, the Minnesota champion.
 Osbun Beaten On Stymie
 . The defeat of Osbun was partly due to two stymies. On the tenth hole where he had fair chance to win anG almost sure half, Burning putted hi. ball between Osbun's and the cup anG took the hole from the southerner. Or the fifteenth hole when there was no a chance for the Alabamian to ever affairs, he made the first mistake of tn, day with his butter which had beer performing maryelously and curved 2, long putt to a position behind his op ponent's ball laying himself a stymie Neither player hit his, best stride on thu first nine Burning taking forty strokes and Osbun doing only a trifle better although he managed to turn two up
 Osbun had been three up at the end of the eighth but the Chicagoan won 1 the next five holes straight and was never headed thereafter coming home in one under par.
 Hill fell an easy victim to Eddie Held of St. Louis, in the afternoon, losing three and one, but Wenzler and Dyer fought it out to the last hole, where the southerner lost one down to Jimmy