Evening star., 1928-11-19
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

- HICK EVANS of Chicago has
| been a prominent figure in the
game of golf so long that many
~ of the younger generation OF
| golfers look upon the smiling
| man from the Windy City as somewhat
| of a senile old veteran That there still
remains very much of kick in the
youthful and lissome swing of Evans
was demonstrated to the full satisfac-
ton of J. Monroe Hunter and George
Diffenbaugh yesterday, for it took all
the good golf the famed Indian Spring
duo could master to master Evans in
a hastily arranged best ball match in
| which we we're fortunate enough to
have been chosen as Evans partner, and
went along more to marvel at the shot
making of the Chicagoan than to believe
we could give him real aid in the match.
Hunter and Diffenbaugh won by 2
and /. their winning margin coming on
the fifteenth and sixteenth holes. where
the gigantic Hunter holed birdie and
an eagle on successive holes. But they
knew they had been in a golf match, or
SO they said and after the game they
described their struggle to beat Evans
as one of the best matches they ever
have had at Indian Spring. Playing
from the back tees Hunter knocked the
ball around Indian Spring in the i'm
DreSsive score of g. Evans was ~,
Diffenbaugh 76 and Evans awed part
ner brought up the rear with n.
Busy on Courses Here.
Chick is in Washington ~ testify in
the trial of Robert W. Stewart. cited by
the District Supreme Court for con-
tempt of the Senate, and probably will
leave the Capital late today for New
RYtf hi or lo l1oe
been busy in a golf way. On Friday he
played a few holes at Indian Spring,
after the Government had rested its
case in the Stewart trial. Saturday
afternoon he played at Burning Tree
with Roland Mackenzie, and yesterday
morning he began full day of golf
with a round at Burning Tree with
John Barton Payne. chairman of the
American Red Cross Secretary of the
Interior Roy o. West and c. Bascom
Slemp; former secretary to the Presi-
dent. Judge Payne, according to Evans,
registered an 83 over Burning Tree,
one of his best scores.
Evans started the fireworks in the
afternoon yesterday by holing IS
footer for a birdie to win the third
hole, and he and his partner finished
the first nine holes l up on Hunter and
Diffenbaugh. But little George played
great iron shot to the eleventh green
and holed his putt for 4 2 to square
the match. We were fortunate enough
to play a mashie shot to within 10 feet
of the hole at the twelfth, but the
putt hit the back of the cup and refused
to drop. The next two holes were
halved, and the way was paved for
those tremendous clouts OF Hunter to
get in their deadly work.
Hunter Sinks O-Footer.
He reached the edge of the fifteenth
green with drive and light iron
and holed a good putt for the birdie
to win and put his side up. At the
sixteenth he hooked to the rough, and
from rather poor lie in the high
grass, knocked his ball onto the green,
where the others, from positions in the
fairway, couldn't get close to the green
And then he holed a 40-foot putt for
the eagle 3. The seventeenth hole was
halved in Is and the match was over
Somewhere in that abbreviated back
swing of his, Chick Evans has con-
trived to get more distance than lie
ever had before. Yesterday he was
knocking the ball only 10 to 80 yards
behind the gigantic tee shots of Hunter
And as any. man who has seen the
Indian Spring giant. hit them when
he is right knows that is hitting the
ball from the tee.
Chick was over the fifteenth green
with a drive and a spoon and was on