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Show Golfer Swells Red Cross Fund by Quarter Million CHICK EVANS. ; j fl IHCAGO, Dee. 15. Although Chick i Kvans, national amateur and open golf champion, did not go to war, aa he was accepted in the aviation corps only a few days before Germany was defeated, de-feated, his record in Red Cross1 work, just .tabulated, shows an amazing performance in polf. The fifty-two exhibitions participated in by Evans, who sutrsrested- the plan managed man-aged by the Western Golf association under un-der the personal direction of President Charles F. Thompson, brought in $."0.-000 $."0.-000 ot the ?ou;:,oTj procured from golfers for tbe Red Cross. In order to play these matches, Kvans traveled 2G.LT)0 miles, played in forty-one different cities, and was on the road almost al-most dally from April 23 to October 5. The field within 'which he ranged is bounded by a line drawn from Winnipeg to Denver," and along the Atlantic co;ist to Boston, and thence to Toronto, Canada, Duluth and back to Winnipeg. Probably no other golfer ever in any single year played half as many courses, and certainly no one ever before by his . play contributed so much to a public fund. The match that brought in the most money was that at the Lake Shore Country club, when Chick and Jim Barnes played Jack Hutchinson and Bob .Mac-Donald .Mac-Donald a tie. which brought in $"1,000. The highest price paid for the privileiV of caddying for him is said to have been $1300, paid by F. J. Johnson at Beverly. The champion did not play as good golf at times as is his standard, because he was overgolfed a". id travel worn. He lost twenty pounds in weight during the campaign. cam-paign. He was paired several times with W arren ar-ren Wood of Chicago and other amateurs, but in most of the events the other competitors com-petitors were famous professionals, who volunteered their services for the Red Cross. |