GOLF IN AMERICA
AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP NOTABLE ELIMINATIONS (Received September 10, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 9 Lawson Little, 1934 champion, won his opening match in the national amateur golf championship at Cleveland, Ohio, to-day, defeating Rufus King, a 19-year-old Denver youth, 3 and 1. Most of the favourites won their first matches in a field of more than 100 competitors. Notable exceptions were Francis Ouimet, who was eliminated 2 and 1, and Chick Evans, who lost 8 and 7 in the most humiliating defeat of a long career.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22211, 11 September 1935, Page 13
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