VOL. XIV, NO. 18
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1911-
FIVE CENTS
EYANS' REMARKABLE CAREER
Woiderfal Record of Only Amateur Who
Has Won an Open Championship
"Whether Victorious or Vanquished
He 1 Always the Same Smiling:, Sun
Burnt, .Lovable Chick'"
THE PRESENCE of
Charles Evans, or
"Chick" as he is uni
versally known, gives
new meaning to the
United North and South
golf championship, for
this twenty-year old
university player is the
marvel of American golf. Just at
present the announcement that he will
participate in the British amateur cham
pionship has given him international
prominence and he is generally regarded
as the American who is to do for the game
much what Walter J. Travis has done.
With both these players and amateur
champion Fownes, in this years, cham
pionship, not to mention Whitmore,
Crocker, Lard, H. C. Fownes, Becker and
others satellites, Pinehurst, this week
becomes the center .toward which the
eyes of the entire golfing world ate turn
ed. In this connection the accompany
ing story by William H. Evans, a recent
visitor here, is of exceptional interest :
Western open title 1910
Western amateur title 1909
National semi-finalist .... 1909-1910
Western Junior title . . . 1907-1909-1910
Interscholastlc title . . . 1907-1908-1909
Chicago title . 1908-1909 .
This In a nut shell, is the remarkable
golfing history of Charles Evans, Jr., of
Chicago.' In addition he has won so
many club trophies and so many gold
medals for low qualifying scores that it
would take too much space to chronicle
them. His record for 1910 is a fair
sample. Last year he wou In addition to
the western open championship and the
western junior championship the West-ward-ilo
!, Ltike Geneva and Onwentsia
tourneys, was runner up in the western
amateur championship, and low medalist
in the western open,Westward-Ho west
ern junior, and Edgewater tourneys and
tied for the low score with Paul Hunter
at Onwentsia.
In a letter to the writer he says : "I
remember when I saw golf played for
the first time in 1898, the year we came
to Chicago, and how I showed my ignor
ance in defining it. As a youngster of
eight the boy living next to us, took me
over to the Edgewater course and there
I 'scabbed' a job as caddie and. made
thirty-five cents. I remember how rich
I felt. I went over day after day and
tried to caddie, going through the stage,
of being interested even in poorly played
golf up through the observant stage
where the caddies watch the golfers,
trees and everything except the ball, to
the desire to see the best golf played.
"Of course I tried to play some during
these years, but as my only club was a
shinney stick, I did not make much head-
door with irons on my legs. When I got
out of bed I was a different boy.
"As it was about April I did not return
to school that year, but remained around
home in order to regain my health. No
crutches were bought for me because
when I was able to get out of the house
my little Morrlstown and shinney stick
answered the purpose. Soon I aband
oned my shinney and was given the put
ting cleek, which I .now use. These clubs
were continually with me my compan
ions and chums. Gradually I became
able to support my weight on my leg and
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way. Finally my father gave me an
old Morristown cleek for a Christmas
present and then I realized the feel of
the contact of ball and club for the first
time. But I was a beginner and easily
discouraged and hence played little be
cause I was in everything going on in the
neighborhood. I was pitcher on the
baseball team, quarter on the eleven and
ready to do everything. In the late fall
of 1904 I broke my left leg playing foot
ball. Three long months I lay on a flat
finally lengthened my walks to the dear
old grounds of the Edgewater Golf club.
Each day I sat under an exceptionally
majestic poplar tree and watched my
former employers. Of course, they did
not know me for a golfer sometimes does
not discriminate between caddies,
"Later on I began to try to play. Even
after I had the fever and to this day it is
even more pressing than before. For
the first time I began to see and feel the
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SOCIETY CIRCUS MAKES HIT
Snappy, Colorful and Fanny It Was
Splendid Success Throughout'
Cavalier Equestrian lancers, Tan-
dent Driving-, Iady Bareback Rider
And Clown Are Features
NO ONE took the ad
vance announcement
concerning the Society
Circus "to miss it is
to mourn" seriously
until after the perform
ance! When the big
crowd had scattered,
however, it became not
a joke, but a fact I "Have it again, oh
please do ; I had a golf game," and thus
In endless variety, are the reauests
which have been coming to the commit
tee from the few who didn't attend, for
as a matter of fact, all Moore County
seemed to be gathered at the ringside.
Be that as it may, it was a splendid suc
cess, and not alone a success, but an at
traction which possesses almost endless
future .possibilities. Snappy, colorful,
funny, it caught the crowd as no sim
ilar outdoor entertainment here has ever
caught it, because it was different ; new !
The opening number an equestrian
lancejs by couples in gaily colored cava
lier capes and plumed caps, was run off
with the precision of a cavalry drill un
der the leadership of Elding Master C.
Gerald Taylor and Mrs. Leonard Tufts ;
Mr. J E. Watson and Mrs. Daisy Por
ter, Mr. G. H. C. Crocker and Miss E.
Marie Sinclair, and Mr. J. W. Ames and
Miss Helen Nason, forming the group.
The second number, tandem driving on
horseback by the women, was followed
by a really truly men's bow pursuit race.
And ever and always like the jokes of
the interlocutor at a minstrel show, were
Mr. Nat S. Hurd as the clown, and Mr.
J. Vr Hurd as the lady bareback rider.
As for Nat, he was just everyday;
circus clown and good, complete even to
pony; a ludicrous mimic and a good
acrobat; and clever ! But Jack;'
dear chubby, Dolly Dimple Jacby!
Pen description of this dainty creation
of curls, lingerie, pink tights, smiles
and finger-tip kisses, is futile, for he was
perfection in caricature. Artist's brush
alone can picture "her" as "she" re
clined upon the back of the white
"Arabian" upon which a native "Be
douin" danced constant attendance.
Yes indeed, we want another circus !