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COTTON LEADS SHUTE TWO UP ON FIRST DAY ANOTHER 36 HOLES TO GO (Eloc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. July 13, noon.) LONDON, July 12. Two thousand spectators watched 11. Cotton, the open golf champion, drive off in a £SOO 72-hole two-day match against Densmore Shute. The match is unofficially designated as the world championship. It is being played at the Walton Heath course, which has been stretched out to 7022 yards. ,
Shute took the lead with a birdie two at the sixth. Cotton squared with a birdie three at the ninth. The players were also all square at the eighteenth, where Cotton scored an eagle three.
The match still was all square at the twenty-seventh after halving two birdie threes, but Cotton was two up at the thirty-sixth at the end of the first day’s play.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19375, 13 July 1937, Page 5
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