LOCKE TO PLAY
WHITCOMBE FOR £500 BOBBY LOCKE, South African golfer, .is to figure in another challenge match in England. A Press Association cable from Johannesburg,; his home town, received . this morning,' stated that Locke has accepted an offer to play Reginald Whitcombe over 72 holes for a stake of £500 a side. Locke will sail for England on April 21 and'the match will probably take place early in June.. ■Last season Locke and Sid Brews,; whom the young South African, succeeded- as the golf ace of the a challenge to. ~Henry Cotton, . English golf ace,' :to. play, him and anybody else 'he selected, in a four-ball bestball match for £500 a side. Cotton chose Whitcombe, who in" the meantime had won the British open, and the English pair won after a dour struggle. Later Locke won the Irish open, with Cotton second, and then came on to tour Australia and New. Zealand. . Oh his return to Africa he won the Transvaal open two . ..weeks ago.' ,'
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 34, 10 February 1939, Page 13
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