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MARCH 13,1926
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The Dixie Pilgrims
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By E. Ellsworth Giles
| nWO hundred and forty-one golfers from the northern
III Part these United States comprising the personnel
| X ] of the Dixie Pilgrimage, the itinerary of which was ar
ranged by the Golfers’ Magazine, of Chicago, motored into
Pinehurst from Fayetteville, Thursday morning, March 11,
and took to the links at once. The Dixie Pilgrimage appears
to have been the outcome of the trial trip which was run
from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest last summer, with
much success.
Chick Evans, former open and amateur national champion,
and globe trotter extraordinary, was the big noise of the
party in a golfing way, as he was in the initial pilgrimage
and will be in the trips to follow, the next being to the shrine
of golf, old St. Andrews-by-the-sea next summer. The Pil
grims entrained at Fayetteville and started for White
Sulphur Springs where they will have a day of golf and then
on to French Lick Springs and home.
Evans’ presence here served to remind the golfers who
follow the fortunes of the competitive golfer that Chick has
announced through the press columns of the country that
he will go abroad and play in the British Amateur cham
pionship, notwithstanding the fact that he has been left off
the American Walker Cup team. The dropping of the
Chicago golfer, who has, all things considered, perhaps the
greatest record in the history of American golf, started a
lot of comment among the close followers of the game all
over the country. Evans, like Bob Gardner, captain of the
International team!, is right in his golfing prime, at an age
when Harry Vardon, the incomparable professional stylist,
achieved his greatest success and fame. And like Bobby
Jones, Chick took up the game as a boy and while a veteran
of the links, he is a very young man of the world. With a
style which has been admired and copied, lo these many
years, Evans has the technic to go on to other golfing
heights. The season of 1925 found him dropping below the
level of his high standard on some occasions, particularly at
Oakmont in the qualifying round for the National Amateur
Championship where he failed to qualify for the first time
since 1909. This was at the Chicago Golf Club when he
tied with Gardner and Tom Sherman, son of former Vice
President Sherman, for the low qualifying score at 151.
Evans was not the only star golfer and former champion
to fail to qualify in the Championship sixteen at Oakmont.
, , - _ rfpiiaht he found in presenting the trophy to Joseph P. Hotchkiss.
Stuart H. Patterson, of Plainfield, N■ J-, had a double rea f , With them is T. Bussell Brown, the runner-up.
Hotchkiss was the Medalist as well as the winner of the tournament. >r photo by Hemmel, PillehuKt