VICTORY FOR COTTON
WORLD GOLF TITLE A CURIOUS INCIDENT (Kl«c. Tel. Copyright—United Tress Assn.) (Reed. July 14, noon) LONDON, July 13. A gallery of 5000 spectators watched Henry Cotton (Britain) deieat Densmore Shute (America) for the world golf championship on the Walton Heath course. Cotton won the match by six up and five. He was five up at the end of the morning round. A curious incident occurred at the tenth hole in the afternoon, Shute's tee shot landing in the seam of a woman’s swirt. The woman stood still until James Braid, the referee, arrived and picked out the ball and replaced it on the fairway. Cotton won the eleventh with a birdie three and the twelfth with a birdie two, becoming dormie six. He halved the thirteenth to win.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19376, 14 July 1937, Page 6
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