GOLF
TO PLAY FOR £2OOO STAKE. | Henry Cotton, England’s most colourful golfer, will take part in a golf match for the biggest' stake ever in Britain —£2000. Cotton, partnered by Harrv Bentley, will play General Critchley, and a professional yet to be chosen, in a 72 holes foursomes —36 holes at Birkdale and 36 at the Addington new course. A wealthy Lancashire sportsman, Cecil Moores ,who is a pupil of Cotton, has backed Cotton and Bentley for £2OOO, and has promised Cotton £5OO if he and his partner win. > General Critchley has wagered £505 with Moores and £5O with Cotton. Cotton has backed himself for £5O. The previous record was for £5OO aside,' when Walter Hagen beat Abe Mitchell in 1926. '■ Cotton is contemplating going to the United States early in 1939 to compete,iagainst some of America’s great-
est match players, possibly in a ? “world championship.” Latest statistics show the member- - ship of Britain’s golf clubs at 1,200.000,
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Grey River Argus, 1 December 1938, Page 11
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