Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-27

from tee to hole in The mini
mum number Of strokes to-
DAY clashed for the amateur crown ol
American golfdom over thls plctut
esque course.
one is the present holder of the
british open championship, held by
many to be the finest golfer VINO ever
pulled on "A spiked shoe. and the othef
the crafty veteran who won the chain,
pionship as long ago as l9i" ana
started playing IN the event pack III
1909-noarly two decades ago.
Robert Tyre Jones, il, bron2cd
earnest son of the South. playing in
this championship the most consistent
golf of his meteorc career, met smil
ing Chick Evans of Chicago, veteran
of the game, who is playing in his
fifth championship final, and who al
ready has twice worn the amateur
crown.
Evans is playing under the handi-
can of a irazzlsd bunch of nerves. the
result of his spectacular 3T-hole match
yesterday with Roland r. Mackenzie
of the Columbia Country Club of
Washington. which the Chicagoan
won when he holed % footer for a
birdie on the extra hole.
Jones in the meantime, has been
hreezng along. winning all his
matches since Wednesday by the wild
est kind of margins, scoring under 40
twice in two days of match play and
exhibiting the wiZardry OF when ne
alone is master. The match today
marks the fifth appearance of the AT
lanta marvel in the ultimate round
of the amateur championship. lie mas
lost twice-in 1919 and 1926-and won
twice. Evans also has won twice and
lost twice.
Jones Should Win Today.
II is in the cards that Evans will
lose again before the impeccabillty
of thu Jones game, for If Jones keeps
on in the happy scoring streak ne
has enjoyed here, he will set a new
record for consecutive championship
nlay. Yesterday, for the second time
IN two DAYS. he was around under ~.
shooting q CO over the morning halt
of his sami-final round against Fran
els Ouimet and closing out the Bos-
tonian on the eighth green in the
afternoon, IL and 10
Jones was shorn of his amateur
crown in a hectic engagement with
George Won Elm at Baltusrol last year.
Inasnnuch as holding national cham-
pionship is more or less essential IN
the life of the sturdy Albanian, he
TODAY over Evans, who has played by
no means the same spectacular brand
of golf that has brought Jones 10 MS
fourth championship final.
The two men, Evans "a years OF age,
fighting back for vindication from a
crushing financial disaster four years
ago. and Jones, the 25-year-oid KID,
who at four years past maturity IS a
veteran of the game. have clashed
twice before in championship play.
Today's match is the rubber engage
ment. for each has won a victory
Evans won at Memphis in 1920, in the
Western amateur. closing out Bobby
on the last hole, and Jones poured a
2 and > defeat into Evans in the third
round last year.
Ouimet Easy for Bobby.
Bobby's match yesterday against
Francis Ouimet was nothing more
than a set-up for Jones. Sadly on
the great putting stroke that had car
ried him to the semi-final, Ouimet
was 6 down at the turn ana nm
jshed the morning half down to
r Jones' GO. Ouimet was around In 40,
a good enough score against an
ordinary golfer, but not good enough
to keep abreast of the impeccable one
Bobby had four brides in this round,
permitting Ouimet to win put one
hole-his only hole of the day-the
tenth, where Jones missed siA-ioo'
putt for a half.
And the afternoon round was but
renetition of that of the morning, with
Bobby closing out Francis In the
tweuty.siXth hole, administering TO
0ui,net enc of the worst beatings he
ever has had.
And while Bobby was shooting the
works at Francis, Roland Mackenzie
and Chick Evans were out there
locked in grim struggle that found
the fortunes of each swaylng BACK
and FORTH while 5000 people hung on
the verdict as they fought silently Tor
mastery.
Roland was l up at noon, fighting
for every shot against the veteran
Evans. whose putting was the sad
dest affair that ever has been seen in
the championship. Roland was around
in rs over the first half, getting the
leading margin when he ran down
25-footer for birdie 3 at the seven
teenth, and they halved the eighteenth.
Previous to that there had been
plenty of spectacular golf-gobs OF 1t
with the Columbia kid usually out
in front. though he blew 3-footer
at the sixteenth for half.
The cash customers who found Jones
8 I'D on Ouimet at noon abandoned
the British open champions exhibit
ton to watch the stirring combat be-
tween the scrapping lad from Wash
ington and Evans-and saw golf
match worth travelling many long
miles TO sea- match that didn't close
until Ro!and's 15-foot bid for birdie
81 at the thirty-seventh hole stayed
above ground.
Evans Leads i'm Afternoon.
One down starting out in the after
noon Evans squared at the first hole
when Roland's pitch shot ended in the
grass at the right of the green. They
halyed the second in SIS, one over par,
with Roland missing a four-footer, one
of the few holeable puts he missed
all day. They split the short third in
par IS, and Evans holed an eight
footer for Il birdie to so l up at the
fourth.
Then il was Rolands turn and al
though his tee shot found the rough
near a clump Of trees. he holed a 20
footer for a birdie to win and square.
And Roland became l up when Chick
missed a six-footer for IA half in at
the 195-yard sixth.
Then came the seventh and the first
of two fine puts that kept Fans in
the match. The Chicago veteran holed
q curling sx-footer for a half in 4
here and got down 15-footer to halve
the short eighth in after a sad ex-
hibition in a bunker near the green.
And they halved the ninth in IS,
where Chick laid Roland a dead stymie
and the youngster couldn't get past
for his 4.
Roland again hooked into the woods
at the tenth. duplicating his perform
ance of other rounds, and lost the hole
10 par 4, squaring the match.
Then came Chick S turn to miss a
couple He laid a high iron shot nine
feet from the pin at the l11.Sard