THE CHIN
AIL AUGUST
A. D. Locke's Irish Triumph
Cotton's Poor Finish
Costs Him Title
AD. LOCKE, former South African amateur,
"FINEST GOLF OF MY
He was overwhelmed with, congra- tulations on doing 36 holes on a course neafly 7200 yards long in-189 strokes. To a reporter he said, "When I Left South Africa I knew I was playing the right kind of golf, but in the Bri- tish Open, never had the "breakı,” After two rounds here I felt I was
won the Irish Open Golf Championship in dramatic fashion at Portmarnock yesterday, beat-offered a special prize of $200 to pro- never going to get the "breaks" but
ing Henry Cotton, former British title-holder, by one stroke, with an aggregate of 292 for 72 holes.
With one round to play Cotton appeared a certain winner, for he led by three strokes from Locke and Arthur Lees (Dore and Totley), the overnight leader, and he seemed to have placed himself in an invulnérable position when he did the first nine holes of the
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Locke had taken 86, but he came home in 34 to complète a last round of 70, whereas Cotton" dropped a stroke at each of the last four holes. and could do no better than 74.
There was a dramatic scene on the last green when Cotton, watched In silence by 5000 people, took three putts from the edge. Having tapped the ball in with the back of his putter, he turned to a friend and asked, “Have I
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Soon afterwards Cotton met Locke at the clubhouse, and took the year-old winner's hand, saying: "Well done, Bobby; your last round was two good for me."
So ended a remarkable tournament on one of Britain's longest courses. Portmarnock was expected to be difficult that a sporting syndicate had
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fessionals beating 70. Locke won this morning I played the finest golf this with a third round of 69, but at of my life, and that gave me the con- that time he had small hopes of fidence to keep going in-my last
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South The championship turned on the African achieved a winning aggregate, last four holes. Locke in his final closing stages, however, exciting round." and so won £850,
round accomplished them in 24 4 4
Leading scores:
A. D. Locke (South Africa) T. H. Cotton (Ashridge), A. Lees (Dore and Totley) D. J. Rees (Surbiton). M. Faulkner (Leamington) S. F Brews (South Africa) B. Gadd (West Cheshire)^3. J. Burton (Hillside) W Nolan (Portmarnock) Mr H Bruen (Muskerry) P, Mahon (Royal Dublin)
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Cotton took 4′5 5 5, a-turnover of five atrokes which made all the difference. Locke, having holed a long putt for his 2 at the fifteenth, played the next- two holes perfectly for a birdle" 4rat each. At the eighteenth his iron shot was caught in rough grass, but he re- covered splendidly with a chip.
Cotton, who had taken three putts at the short fifteenth, because he went för a2; and had been short at the next two, reached the eighteenth needing a 4 to tie. The ex-champion drove into the rough on the left, and his second shot, missing the right hand bunker by two yards, rolled reluctantly on to the green. "Cotton left his long ap- proach putt five feet short, and he missed the next, after having" ap- parently relaxed his concentration to the extent of giving only a perfunctory examination of the line.
COURAGEOUS RECOVERIES
When play began Cotton was three strokes behind the overnight leader, Arthur Lees, but the latter played un- inspiring golf, and Cotton, taking eleven putts in an outward half of 38 in his third round, was hot-foot for the "under 70" prize of. £200.
He cut his drive into long grass at: the tenth hole, which cost him a 6, and he was again in the rough at the thirteenth, where, he took a 5. That. began a series of mishaps from which only courageous recovery shots saved him. On the last green Cotton-had a putt of five yards for a 69, but the ball just missed, and he had to be con- tent with a 70.
Locke had already finished in 69, so that with one round to play Cotton led by three strokes from Locke and Lees. The South African started his brilliant round with two "birdie" 98," and everything went well with him until he walked down the thirteenth fairway, three under 48. Then He found his ball in deep rough; from B pushed out drive, and finally he missed a putt of eight feet for his 4, He -made amends, however, by a magni- ficent finish with three successive "birdie" fours.;-
Locke, who recently became a pro- fessional, and Sid Brews, are to meet Cotton and Reginald Whitcombe, Bri- tish Open Champion, in a seventy-two holes match for 3500 a side at Walton Heath next week. As an amateur, Looke had a fine record as a score- player.
LYNCH BEFORE BOXING BOARD
London, July 29.
Benny Lynch, of Glasgow, who lost his world fly-weight (8st), boxing title last month by being overweight for his fight withi Jackie Jurich, the American, ap- peared before the stewards of the British Boxing Board of Con- trol in London yeaterday, After a meeting which last hours Lynch, who was, necomp hia trainer. “Puggy
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