COTTON'S £500 "NO"
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Offer from America
(Own Correspondent — ^By
LONDON, Aug. 12." Henry Cotton, British open golf champion, offered a £500 winner-take-all prize by Belmont (Mass.) City Council yesterday to replay Denny Shute, American crack, said "Nothing doing. *' Last month, at Walton Ileath, Cotton beat Shute, won £500 and the unofficial "world title. " He said on the telephone from Germany: "Surely they don't think I am going all the way to America, even if they pay my expenses. to play one match for £500. That's not business." "I'm willing to meet Shute any time, but it's got to be really worth my while. A golf er 's Iiif e is short. I haven't too much time to make all l want. ' '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 195, 3 September 1937, Page 6
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