New-York tribune., 1922-12-18


which make up nfne-tenths Of 20
business Is not at al harmful; IN IA
the pockstboOk.
This nan msntions HaNsn. Duneans
Mitchell and Barnes in order 81 being
victims Of the deadly plaque. very
.s.-~ell; let's take them IN that erosr.
The winter before iaat--that IL, 1920
walter Hagen played very little golf
ana fniSAsd whersi Nowhere Quite
fhis iast winter walter sid consider
akls eiub teting and train travelling,
played IN more tournsmcno ana
matches than he ed IN 1920. played All
,.Vorth and then went abroad. Then
whatf Stepped out and made himself
famous a. the hFst and only home,ored
Mo ever wen tke British open cham
ssptonship. Inasmuch as be dnishsd IN
tha money In the national open Il can
not be said Hagen had very bad year:
Just one year ago Jim Barnes and
Jock Hutchison started on . tour that
took them into the Canadian kortn-
Coast, ell through the South and home
again. . distance Of at least 10000
.sMilea They played Ia all binds Of
weather, hot, lukswaTm aud frigid.
They played IN half dozen tourna-
ments and IN some forty mAtehes-
What was the resuitT
,,,s Lose Only Five Matches
- They lost only Eve matches. After
they had been out q month and had
Travelled Eve thousand milsa or more
uutehison won the northern California
Z. open ehsmpionship IN . romp, Barnes
finishing sixth. Three weeks later
Barnes tow.Fopsd the field in the Cali
fornia open ehanpionShip IN Jos An
angeles, while Hutehison vas third.
-, IN the Houston and New OFlesns
o. tournaments both finished we'll up In
the money, and a. the very end Of the
tournament Hutehison won hrst money
IN special eompstition at Washing
ton.
But the pair didn't stop there. They
sailed with Hagen 20 England shortly
. after their return North and proceeded
Ito help Hagen mOnopoliBs the British
open meeting by hnishing second and
third, respectively.
Surely II golf touring makes q wreck
of a man, Barnes and Hutchison ought
20 have been ordering easkets In May.
Instead, they dselsrsd--thiS was in
June--they were never In better phys
jeal condition, and they were hungry
for q chance At the nstionsl open.
You will recall what happened IN
that meeting. Hutehison, giving the
most marvellous exhibition Of medal
play ever seen IN this country, hung
Up record IN the qualifying round.
Unfortunately rain intervened and kept
rHuteh" idle three successive days.
Ialeness is what eats the spirit right
out of the brilliant Scot. Had he been
able 70 20 back into battle within two
days there is no telling what would
have happened.
Nov We come 10 Duncan and Mitch
ell. They toured this country for the
second time last summer. They ar
rived from England In time 10 play IN
the national open--and did nothing 10
gDeak of But along about the middle
.of their tour,-late In August-Dnnean
stepped out against q strong field and
won the New York State open cham
pionShip.
Gives Chase for Big Money
A month later his side kick, the
hafd-hltting Abe, had . merry chase
with Leo DieRel for fret money IN
big money tournament held at Nhsh-
vile, Tenn,
a. what must q star do 10 prove he's
rot stale. win everythingl
Take the case Of the youthful Gene
,saraEen. He got his an Of golf last
winter, playing, as he did, IN some
eight tournaments. Then he won the
national open at skoke. Re spent
",the rest Of the summer playing ~
hibition matehes, but between games
he found time 70 win the American
professional ehGmpionthip, 70 beat
Walter Hagen IN a special match OF
eeventy-tWo holes and 20 have his ap-
pendix removed. He is back on bis
tiftet, none the worse for wear and
tear, looking for more victims.
"And That Amt AL" for Proof
Going from the young to the old
for further facts we come across the
achievements Of two veterans-Harry
VArdon and Ted Ray--whsn they were
on tour. The proof 10 not 20 striking
IN this ease because this pair played
IN the national open before their tour
bad gone far. Nevertheless they had
10 travel an approximate 5000 miles
20 run one-tvo IN that tournament at
Toledo.
One can 20 into n tournament stale
Ito be sure. But that condition ID
generally the result Of too much prae-
tics. or too much golf. II you will
Just preceding the tournament. Barnet
"A HutchlSon, and others who have tried
Il TIE scheme say that too much golf
before q tournament does no harm II
you can End time for q few days res,
just before the start Of the com.
petition. Sarszen makes Il stronger
than thst--"Give mo twelve hours
rieao ana I'm ready"