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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 24, 1989

BURTON WINS TITLE BY TWO STROKES

(Continued from Page 22) the gale. Among Burton's successes is the Leeds Tournament in 1930, and the Dunlop Southport Tournament the following year. He tied for first place in this year's Silver Quaich Tournament.

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CRUEL LUCK FOR POSE Burton lost his overnight lead the hurly-burly of the critical third round to-day, when exciting things, too numerous for detailed chronicle, happened. Every one of these is dwarfed, however, by the cruel mis- fortune that defeated Martin Pose, the Argentine golfer, who otherwise would have been in second place with

one round to go. As it happened the leadership at that stage was taken by another good and stylish golfer, John Fallon, the old Lanark boy, who now at Huddersfield.

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15 at the road, where he played a good

chip from the hazard:

RAPIDLY CHANGING

SITUATION".

CUBA ELIMINATES

CANADA

Havana, To-day. Cuba elimin- ated Canada by three matches to, one in the first round of the Da vis Cup, North American Zone. --Renter.

Cuba will meet Australia in the Zone final.

Poso, who is a smooth-swinging ex- caddie from Buenos Ayres, a player with a strikingly-grooved 'action, had everybody's sympathy about his Road Hole misfortune. Even with that he the had a 76, and filed into second place lic. temperature rose, however, when four strokes behind Fallon. The pub- Shankland, of Leeds,

whom comparatively little has been said this week, slipped in between them to se- cond place with a 72.

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field.

Bulla's thrust set the crowd up to fever-heat, His 73 and an, ag- gregate of 292 put him right out on his own at the top. This was a first-class sensation, The Cup was in real danger again.