The Archive · 1940

Richard Burton, the British Open Golf Champion, won the Daily Mail Red Cross Golf

Tournament, which now virtually replaces the Open Cham= pionship, Burton's scores were: 71-69, 69-71. Henry Cotton was Second. His scores were:

72-67, 73-69. Third place was gained by E. Whitcombe, who scored 73-71 and 71-72.—Reuter, Little opposition but in their last two chukkers they meta team consisting of LB. Moller, C.D. Culbertson, Hornby and Krikoriantz who were far too strong for them.

Rest of the afternoon was spent in playing pick-up chukkers and over Atteon chukkers were played. Polo will be played again today if weather and ground conditions permit.

The Seaforths had a large portion of the play in the frst chukker; in fact, they had nearly all of it inthe early minutes of the chukker, but oer marksmanship saw their shots go wide of the mark. It was not unfit the latter part of the chultker that the Light Horse got into their stride and began to hit the ball squarely. They pressed in the last minute and White /Reored on the. bell.

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