Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-07-25 | Page 20 | Evans Retains Championship

EVANS REI AINS CHAMPIONSHIP I 1 Fight for Western Title Is Productive Productive Pro Pro- Pro Prot t of Stellar W Work ork at Cleveland S Cleveland 0 O. July 24 Playing t Playing the greatest golf solf ever aver witnessed over the course courso Chick Evans toc nl defeated J. J D D. D Standish Jr Detroit 7 and antI 5 S In the final match for tho the 1915 western amateur title lUe In doln doings doing s 's BO lIe he set Mt a now new reco record d for tor the course this till morning finishing the 18 holes In 71 l lone one ono stroke less than marks marka made mad by by W. W c. c Jr Pittsburgh and Ned ed Sawyer Chicago earlier in tho S S While the match did not have havo the thrills that th the Sawyer ct clash sh of ot Friday rl-da rl It was m made mado d I I- Interesting Interesting- to several sC hundred t Ii fans b the determined J by playing o of Jimmy Standish Standish was handicapped handl- handl capped by his own weakness to slice slice or hook hoole on his tee teA shots But tho the prettiest pret- pret golf of the day was I beautiful recoveries eries from the long i grass gratis woods and creek Taking Into consideration the fr ire ire- Jj I quency with which ho he did this his desperate desperate des- des 1 match a against tho the champion was wall remarkable But Evans E had no glaring glar- glar 4 Ing fault such as ns Ho Mo played an even avOn game gamo throughout hout Winning his fourth championship was not such sucha 36 a thrill to him He was used to It and went vent about the tile task with a carefree smile on his face often orten halting to discuss dis dis discuss cuss tho the score coro with a friend t Standish on tho the other hand hand- was de de- de and played out every c shot as Jf It his life depended upon It This style 3 i of play found round Standish leading at the i first turn In the tho morning round one ono up Only three holes were won In l those first nine holes the other six Ix being halves In ill good scores Evans made mado the first nine In thirty thirty- seven equalling tho the par up to the turn On the return he lie played sensational t golf being aided at the eighteenth by s holing out on a mashie shot from th through the r rough feet from the tho cup This i gave him a thirty four return two twe strokes under par He had overcome i Standish's carl early lean lead and stopped for foe torI I A lunch two holes holos to the good X The afternoon round was not so In In- In StAndish continued hooking and slicing with sensational mashie mashl shots to the tho fair ways Evans missed ij easy puts that would have havo given him f the match 13 Again the tho champion made the first w half of at the course In par He was two strokes under par when th the match 1 ended and might have broken his mornIng morn morn- i Ing Ins mark had he been forced orce to continue con eon the match to the eighteenth hole hola