Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1917 — PINNACLE OF GOLFING FAME [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PINNACLE OF GOLFING FAME

Chick Evans of Chicago Performs Unusual Feat of Winning Open and Amateur Titles. e - ■ Accomplishing that whleh no other golfer in the world has done —winning an open and amateur national championship in the same year—Chick Evans of Chicago, has reached the pinnacle of golfing fame. His performance at Philadelphia, where Saturday he defeated Champion Gardner for the - amateur title, was even more meritorious than his golfing at Minneapolis, where he won in a field composed of the best amateurs and professionals in the country. This must be obvious to anyone who has ever participated in tournament play, for the mental strain in one tournament usually is severe enough to throw a man off of his game in a sub-

sequent tournament —especially one in which the stake was so high as it was for Mr. Evans at Philadelphia. Strange as it may seem to those who only casually - follow golf, Mr. Evans heretofore had never won either the amateur or open championship. He has been in the front rank of American golfers so long that nearly every layman had a xague faotion he at one time or another had wonsone or the other of the titles. Mr. Evans was the Western champion,, jbKlfia. .Kinping it in 1900 and 1910. In 1914 Mr. Evans was defeated by one stroke for the open championship of the United States. Walter Hagen won the title from him by shooting 290 to Mr. Evans’ 291. Mr. Evans traveled abroad a couple of vears ago and won the F rench cham tionshln. after having finished weh jp in the piny in Gfpat Britain

Chick Evans.