The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-28
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BY HENRY McLEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent


 New York, April 28. (UP) - Lawson Little came up to me in the Stork Club last night and advised me to go west.
 With the flippancy for which l am noted in my circle, I asked Lawson Little why I, no longer young man, should go west.
 He answered, and very promptly, that should go west in June if for no other reason than to be present when the National open golf cham pionship was won by the lowest score in it's history.
 This started an argument that lasted well into the night, because last fall I played round over the Cherry Hills Course in Denver, where the open will be staged this year, and could do no better than 105.
 "Dou you mean to tell me- I in- quired,' that you believe 90 will be broken on that hazardous courSe?' Then I described to MT. Little the thickness of the rough, the depth of the traps, the smallness of the greens, and the rapid currents of the creeks which traverse the course.
 q know all about those things Little replied. T have played the course myself"
 Really" I said, land how did you fare?"
 MT. Little crept into his shell of modesty at this point, and 1t was all I could do to drag from him his scores at Cherry Hills.
 Finally, after a full minute and a half, he broke down and related to me his Cherry Hills activities in the year 1883.
 MT. Little was an amateur then and vitally interested in the win ming of silver cups. Since then he has turned professional and learned to look on cups as something which hold flowers, but are not very nego- tiable when Dorothy wants a fur coat. But at that time he wanted the Colorado State Amateur Cup so he played at Cherry Hills and the best he could do, in winning it, was to journey around the layout in 19 under par. A few months later he had occasion to again visit Cherry Hills, this time to try and qualify for the National amateur.
 Having seen it once, Little turned in a score of 139 for 36 holes, despite a two-stroke penalty.
 Lawson believes that it will take a score of 278 or better to win at Denver this year. He sees the lay out, there in the Rockies, as an op- portunity for accurate iron players to break the record mark of 28l established by Ralph Guldahl in De- troit last year.
 Its course that will reward the short iron sharpshooter," Lawson told me. There is going to be lots of short irons hit, because in that rare atmosphere drivers are going to JrdVel dIlyWlleIC lIOiii HV oo "o yards farther. If I had to name few players whose games will be most benefited by Cherry Hills, l would say Harry Cooper, who IS always good on any course. Paul Runyan, Denny Shute, Henry Picard and Johnny Revolta. And, Of course Guldahl, the defending champion.
 asked Little if he didn't think that Lawson Little might do fairly we'll After all, I remarked, man who has done it in 19 under par should constitute fair to middling menace.
 "That was few years ago." Little replied. Since then they have toughened even more for the open But I still think 278 will be just about right to win it."
 We drank one another's health III clam juice and went out into the night. Copyright, 1888, by United Press)