COTTON TOPS THE LIST

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 148, 10 July 1937, Page 5

COTTON TOPS THE LIST

-PreBi Aisri.-

Play in Open Golf Championship "one of the best ever"

(By 'l'elegraph-

-Copyfight.)

(Eeeeived 10. 11.20 a.m.) LONDON. July 9. Heavy rain fell in the afterrioon and there was a daiiger of the scofes iri tho opfen golf champioiiship being wiped out. The championshdp committee inspected the links, but the weatrifer cleared later and abandonment was unnecessary. Cotton was oUt in 37 iri the firiai found and stafted fof home playirig par golf in a fierce downpbUr. He Was attended by a feCofd cfowd. He achieved par at the foUrteenth, being ttnpertUfbed by the weather, Cottori missed a five-foot putt at thfe fiftfeentb, bfit seCured par foUr at the seVenteenth. He was bunkered at thfe last hole off his iron shfet to the gTeen and then missed a fifteen-foot putt for four. Gotton said; "It is one of the best rounds I havfe ever played. Tharik goodrieSS it's over." The ' third and ffeufth round scofes aiid the grarid total afe as folloW:—

The riewspapers acclaim Cotton as the world' s best golfer. Beafing the fcream of the Americans, he has won the championship for the second time in four years.

Gotten ' 73 71 290 C. A. WMtcoffibe 74 76 294 0; Lacey 70 72 293 C. A. Whitcombe q4 76 294 Nelson 71 74 296 Dudley 78 75 297 Padghain .............. 76 76 298 A. J. Lacey 75 75 298 Laidlaw ................ 73 76 298 Hdrton-Smith .......... 79 72 299 Guldahl 74 77 300 Snead 75 76 300 Shute 76 80 302 Alliss 75 77 303 Picard 70 80 303 Locke, 77 79 304 Eobertson 78 78 304 Havers 76 76 304 Adams 76 76 304 Eees 78 79 304 W. J. Cfex .. .... 81- 73 305 Busson ......... . ... . 79 76 306 Collinge 83 74 307 Cairncross 77 82 308 Hagen SO 8l 309 Dellemagne 79 77 309 Buitori ...... .......... 77 82 310 E. E. Whitcombe ...... 81 77 310 Kirig 75 82 310 Boomer 77 83 311 Eevolta 83 76 3il Ballingall 79 80 3ll Dailey 79 79 311 McLean 81 79 312 Taylor *83 76 312 Nolan 78 81 312 Ayton 80 79 312 Mcintosh 81 76 3.12 Fallon ................ 74 80 312 Shrinkland 82 SI 314 Criiiekshank ............ 77 85 314 Dobson ...... .. ........ 79 82 314 MeMinn 80 81 314 ■Fairweather ............ 82 81 315 Eager ................ 82 8.1 317