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THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1935

ALFRED PERRY

PERRY NEW GOLF CHAMPION

(Continued from Page 4)

*Will Be Cack?”

on the previous day Perry faded But there was a setback at the yout of the picture and was forget- eighth 'and' ninth-holes, ~ each of {ter. Now he had bobben up which cost him a 5. "Was he again to some, purpose, for with about to crack was the question the last round to play he was on the lips of the vast throng of leading the field by one- stroke spectators. This, of course, was with a total of 211 Though a possibility, but Perry quickly slender margin, it gave Chifries scouted, the thought with a glorious Whitcombe, with an aggregate" of 13 at the tenth--a dzīve - and

212, something to think about. In smashing brassie shot within 10ft rotation there, followed Padgham, from the pin.

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As the patt went down a roar Picard, the only American left in

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His golf was irresistible, and round between Perry and victory was in sight when, at the jembe, though with the memories fourteenth, he hit & masterly of many past championships be- spoon shot from a downhill slope fore me it seemed dangerous to at the edge of a bunker on to the ignore the chances of other players (centre of the green. This was a treading reasonably close on the

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Whitcombe's Good Start tain at the fifteenth, where he hit

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another par 4. With a 3 at the just after 8.30. The first was a short sixteenth and two glorious fortunate hole. Cutting his drive 4s at the last two holes-a drive into the rough, where he found a and a great spoon, shot at each-good lie. Whitcombe took a spoon. the championship was decided befand thumped the ball close to the yond all possible doubt.

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Whitcombe took has first 5. An-gaily on his way, Perry reached other 5 came at the sixth, where the short thirteenth, where he had he was through the green with another 2, a putt of six feet being rammed straight at the back of drive and No. 4 iron.

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Out: 6 4 3 3 4 4 3 5 537.

in: 3 4 5 4 4 4 3 4 4--35.

Total

72.

It is conceivable that matters green with his tee shot. A 5 ated no serious consequences, came dead at the 17th, where Perry, in an might have been different had the ninth with the wind Whitcombe, who finished earlier. against him, was only to be ex-attempt to reach the green with was impossible tola No. 3 iron for the second shot. not broken down at the last two pected, as it [holes. Up to this point he had get up in two shots Whitcombe was trapped in a deep bunker on SAILINGS played with commendable steadithas reached the turn in 37, the the right. This was a five.

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was 5; 4; 4; 2; ‍4; 4; 3: 5: 435. "Padgham's firares for the last The No. 2 iron shot was again Total 69.

in-evidence in punching his sec- Perry, having started the day] nine holes tell their own tale plack and efficiency. They are ond shot to the fifteenth. These five strokes behind Whitcombe, 4 4 4 3 4 4 3 4 434

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At the close of the third round, which, history has shown is one

Whitcombe faltered again at: the eighteenth, a pulled drive) of the most fateful of the cham finishing in the rough. Taking a

Not The Usual Cotton “This was not the usual buoyant Cotton, claiming `a`sequence of 4's interspersed with an OC- Icasional three: Recognising a somewhat dispirited, though by (710 meaTUK a pessimistic, cham-

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Perry

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news flashed round the course green. A five at the long fifth, In view of the strong binster-that Perry had crashed his way where he was 50 yards short in ing wind that swent across the to the tum in the almost unbe-two, winde him two over 4'1. course. Perry's effort was magni lievable score of 32. His figures Cotton had several chances to Scent When his quick "round were 5; 4; 4; 3; 4; 3; 2; 3; 4 heat the par figures, but the putts the corner swing he slasher the There were three miraculous would not go down. The patter Toko-ball from tee to green with scarow-holes, sixth seventh and eighth had lost its magic.

ly a pause to think of the dangers where he picked up as many as "Nothing Went Right" abead: He reminded one of five shota Sarazen, whose attitude is: At the sixth, down wind, he hit Bankered from his brassie shot Well, here's the ball let's hit No. 4 iron five yards past the 38, four shots too many to give.

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