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Show - oo SPECTATOR DROPS DEAD IN TITLE PLAY PRESTWICK. Scotland. May 27 (By the Associated Press) Gret Britain's new amateur golf champion Is Frnest W. Holderness. an Englishman English-man His runner-up, John Caven young, Scotchman, stuck to him like a burr throughout tho final round of the tournament this afternoon, the match providing one of the most sensationally sen-sationally interesting tilts In golfing history. Holderness won on the 18th hole. So intense was the excitement among tho huge crowd or spectators that at tho sixth green William Hen-Iderson, Hen-Iderson, 62 years old. a retired inspector inspect-or of schools, dropped dead. Holderness had a stroke of fortune I si the thirteenth hole which contrljj-;Uted contrljj-;Uted materially to his victory Tn putting put-ting a nhot In his approach, the ball struck a woman spectator and was thua saved from iroiutr iutu thu ruuirh. |