10,000 PEOPLE SEE COTTON DECISIVELY DEFEAT VON NIDA
(Rec. 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, September 24. Henry Cotton defeated the Australian, Norman von Nida, three and two, in the first round of the News-of-the-World golf championship. There were amazing scenes during the match. The biggest crowd of the season lined the first hole from the tee to the green and were 12 deep when Cotton drove off. The size of the crowd —estimated at 10,000 —delayed the start of the match for 15 minutes. Cotton outdrove von Nida, but his strength was in his briliant iron play, with which he was wonderfully accurate.
Other first-round winners included the British open champion, Fred Daly, E. E. Whitcombe, R. A. Whitcombe, J. D. Rees, C. H. Ward, R. Burton, and F. von Donck.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 September 1947, Page 6
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