COTTON'S VICTORY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22131, 10 June 1935, Page 9

COTTON'S VICTORY

GOLF IN A GALE CLOSE GAME IN FINAL ALLISS JUST DEFEATED SPECTATOR KNOCKED OUT By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received June 9, <5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 8 In the final of the Leeds professional golf tournament to-day, Cotton defeated Alliss 3 and 2. The match was fought out in a gale. Cotton reversed the verdict of the last meeting in 1933, when Alliss won 4 and 8.

Alliss was three down at the thirteenth in the morning, but on the homeward round in the teeth of a terrific wind he squared at the seventeenth. Cotton recovered the lead at the eighteenth. The gale increased in the afternoon. Alliss was one up at the twenty-seventh, but tired. Cotton, cleverly using the wind, was dormy three when approaching the thirtyfourth. His hall then struck and knocked out a spectator near the green. It rebounded and enabled Cotton to have an easy putt for a half, which gave him the match. In the third round yesterday the results were: —Cotton beat R. Cox, 1 up; Alliss beat Davies, 3 and 2; Easterbrook beat Busson, 1 up. In the semi-finals Cotton beat Green, 3 and 2; and Alliss beat Easterbrook, 1

up. Gale and rain marred the piay, but Cotton, in the semi-final, mastered the elements better.

Easterbrook won the third round after laying his opponent amazing stymies, hut stymied himself from victory at the fourteenth in the semi-final. When 2 down he missed a 6ft. putt, placing himself behind his opponent's ball, which he was not able to clear. Alliss, half-stymied, missed a short putt at the sixteenth, lost the seventeenth, but desperately holed a 10-footer for the match.

GAME IN AMERICA PITTSBURGH OPEN TOURNEY YOUNG PROFESSIONAL'S WIN (Received June 9. 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 8 In the national open golf championship at Pittsburgh to-day Sam Parks, jun., aged 25, who has been a professional for only three years, won the title with a score of 299. His scores in the two final rounds were 73 and 76. James Thomson, of Long Beach, California, who led the field yesterday, finished second with 301. Other scores werei—Hagen, 302 (his /3 and /6 today brought him up into the first flight with other low scores); Shute and Mangrum, 303; Sarazen, Picard and Krueger, 306; Metz and Runyan, 307; Dutra, 30S; Cruickshank, 309; S. Brews (South Africa), 312; Craig Wood, 312; Laffoon, 314; Goodman and Revolta, 316. Yesterday Thomson registered 73, bringing his 36-hole score to 146. Other scores yesterday were: —Krueger, 77 148; Sarazen, 74 —149; Parks, 73—150; Espinosa, 76—151; Shute, 73—151; Craig Wood, 79—152; Runyan, 77 Revolta, 75—155; Brews, 81—155.