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THE Open Golf Championship is already but a memory, although it was only last month that Richard Burton donned the mantle of cham- pion. To many of us, however, it will be a memory that will remain long after other golfing days and golf- ing weeks have faded.

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corner of the clubhouse; and when the battle is hot he is more likely to meet it in the same joyous way as he played his niblick approach to the home hole at St. Andrews as he is to be wrinkling his brow over playing a safe stroke.

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In the long history of the Cham-low who was going to come to the

His golf is as honest as his Lanca- pionship there can have

rescue of the British flag when there shire face, and he goes in for none of weeks which provided more thrills in was a danger of the Stars and Stripes the fripperies which have entered in- BURTON is the right type of cham- being hoisted to the R. and A. flag-to the game of golf in the past few SO

pion-the man who enjoys his years. Whether it be championship, golf, and he resembles the great Wal- challenge match, or representative en-ter Hagen in that he does not alter counter, there is nothing of the fad- his mode of living in any way-diet dist about Dick Burton. Not for him or sleep or practice-because he is the masseur, the rest in bed between playing in a championship. If there rounds, and the elaborate preparation.were more Richard Burtons in the When the game is over he is far game there would be a lot less talk more likely to be found enjoying aabout the strain of championships, cool glass of beer in the bar than and the game would be the happier brooding over a bad stroke in some for it.

the closing stages and provided many men who had a chance of win- ning. Dick Burton was the right man at the right hour, however, and I have no doubt that he will prove HE is a charming, unassuming chap, himself a worthy champion.

this new champion, and though he Burton came into the reckoning may lack the colour-to dip into the with very few people. He was looked language of film folk, one might al- upon as a good golfer who would most say "glamour"-of one or two keep on turning in good cards, but no other players, Cotton or Compston, for one ever expected him to be the fel- instance, he is none the less attractive.

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