New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
BY Ray Mccarthy

Long Jim" Barnes, of the Pelham
Country Club, the United States golf
champion, and Jock Hutchison, Of the
Glenview Club, Of Chicago, British
open champion, will start Thursday on
the longest tour ever undertaken by
a pair of golfers in this country. The
two champions will travel upward of
10000 miles, not including the walking
they will do over the various courses,
which will add another 1000 miles to
the itinerary.
This tour of the champions promises
to be the big feature of the winter
golf season. The various clubs at
which Barnes and Hutchison will ap-
pear already are beginning to line UP
the strongest teams possible to play
against the title-holders, so that Barnes
and Hutchison will not lack competi-
ton.
The start will be made on Thursday
morning from the Grand Central Sta
tion and the first stop will be Van
couver, B. G.. Barnes and Hutchison
are due there on December 1S, but they
will rest up for day or two before
they start playing.
First Match at Vancouver
The first match of the tour will be
played on the beautiful course of the
Vancouver club. The Vancouver club
has not as yet selected the players
who will face Barnes and Hutchinson
there, but two days later at the Vic
toria club, jim and Jock will find the
going swift enough. for Dave Black
and Phil Taylor, two of the best known
golfers on the Coast, will be pitted
against them. e.
After playing Victoria & the pair will
visit Seattle and will next. play at Ia
coma. At Tacoma it is planned to
have Bill Dalgleish and Neil Christian
oppose the champions.
But the. real excitement will not be-
gin until Barnes and Hutchison reach
California. Out there they believe
they have several golfers who are the
equal Of any in the world. George A.
Dow, of Alameda, Calf, for instance,
golf enthusiast anxious to see some
real competition, arranged to have John
Black, and Abe Espinosa, two of the
best in the Sunset State, meet Barnes
and Hutchison in special match for a
side bet of $1,000. Long Jim and
happy-go- lucky Jock quite naturally
still think tEsy are pretty good them
selves and promptly accepted the chal-
-lenge.
1t is likely that in the first match in
Los Angeles, which will be played on
the course of the Ambassador Club,
Arthur Clarkson and Macdonald Smith
will oppose Barnes and Hutchson,
golfers that ever played the game
When it was learned that Barnes
and Hutchison were intending to visit
the Coast and the South Immediately
every kind of association began to
arrange the dates of its annual tour
naments to suit the convenience of
the world champions.
Play in California Meet
The Northern California open title
meet, for instance, will be held on
January and Z, and the big Cali
fornia open championship will take
place on the course of the Wiltshire
Country Club on January Is, is and
II. Barnes and Hutchson have agreed
to play in both of these, and it is also
likely they will consent to compete in
the San Antonio meet, for which a
purse of $4,000 already has been sub
scribed
However, Barnes and Hutchison are
making this an exhibition tour and
not a competitive journey, and while
they are anxious to satisfy the many
demands for their appearance at vari
no other tournament if these in any
way interfere with their matches.
The champions will play about forty
five matches in all, not including the
various tournaments, They will arrive
in San Francisco from the Northwest
about Christmas Day. The first match
in California is scheduled for the
Olympic Club in San Francisco.
Barnes and Hutchison will remain in
the vicinity of this city for about ten
days and will then move on to Los An
geles. They will be kept busy for two
weeks at least in that section Of the
country, and in the latter part of Janu-
ary will move further southwark to
San Diego
They will leave the land of the Col
den Sunset behind them on February z
and will start eastward, heading into
Arizona. Their first stop after leaving
California will be in Phoenix. The citi-
zens of this famous old city are keenly
enthusiastic about the coming of these
great golfers, and are preparing to give
rival.
Texas Also on List
| Next comes Texas. There was
time, not 50 long ago either, when golf
was never heard Of in this country of
cowboys and bucking steers. But with
in. the last few years everybody has
taken up the game and they are raising
a yumber of tournaments and matches
for the invasion of the Northern pro
fessionals.
1t is likely that Barnes and Hutchi-
son will be joined In San Antonio by a
host of pros from this part of the
country. who are planning to compete.
as well as others in Texas, Louisiana
and Florida
From Texas the tourists will proceed
to Louisiana, thence to Mississippi.
Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Flor
ida. II is planned to bring the tour
to q close in Jacksonville. 1t Is also
probable that Barnes and Hutchison