New-York tribune., 1921-11-20

When one leans back to let the golf
ing season of 1921 pass in review, the
outstanding feature is the manner IN
which four indomitable contcnders,
after many years, at last worked their
way to the top Tor the first time in
each case.
All four had been rated high through
several seasons but none of them had
ever quite made the steep grade when
the big day or the week came around.
1t has been case of four fine golfers
being due to win, and then having all
four win in one campaign.
We refer here to Jock Hutchinson.
British champion; Jim Barnes. United
States open champion; Jess Guilford,
amateur champion, and Miss Marion
Hollins, women's champion.
None of these was veteran repeat
ing or golfing youngster suddenly
leaping to fame.
For each it was long, hard uphill
battle before the goal was reached
and held.
The -Four Champions
Jock Hutchison was the first to go
after competitive fame when the high
strung young Scot took his place in
the line at Myopia in 1908.
Thirteen years of open champion
ship competition followed before he
finally reached the crest at st. Andrews
and held one of the twin peaks of
medal play fame.
Jim Barnes was the next to start
Loug Jim made his first championship
bow at Buffalo in 1912, where he played
very good golf, but was somewhat be-
low Jack McDermott at the top.
Barnes had to hustle along for nine
more years before his skill was re-
warded with crown.
Manchester in 1912, where she took
104 strokes for qualifying purposes
and passed out in the second round.
She needed nine years of competi-
tion to pass Miss Stirling at Holly
wood and come upon her deserved re-
ward. She made a bold bid for her
scepter a year after her golf debut,
when she went to the final round at
Wilmington, only to fall before Miss
Ravenscroft, of England, by a two-hole
margin.
Miss Hollins, after this brilliant up
ward dash, fell back again, only to call
upon 1912 as the best season she has
ever known.
Jess Guilford was the last of the
star quartet to get under way. Gull
ford broke into fame in 1914 at Man
chester, Vt, and SO needed seven years
to make his way through the lines to
national renown.
All four crowns were earned by de-
served skill, plus the value of long
experience under fire.
Upon a general average the four
stars had to wait for nine and a half
years after their first championship to
gather in the laurel and profit by their
experience.
There was no mere flash-in-t the pan
in any one of the four cases. All four
are capable of winning again, and with
the old hoodoo at last broken they will
be even more formidable than usual
through the next few seasons, wherein
each has an excellent chance of re-
peating.
Of the four, Miss Hollins, Jim Barnes
and Jess Guilford all belong to the
serene, Unconditional class.
Hutchison is one of the nervous,
restless, high strung type, and his bril-
liant game has had to wait many years
for its reward on this account He
made the boldest of bold bids at IN
verness for the American open a year
ago, but after a sensational start
slipped just enough in the final round
to lose by stroke.
What are their main features as
golfers? Briefly, they might be sum-
married in this fashion:
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