The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-08
Today's Sport Parade
BY HENRY McLEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent

Denver, Colo, June 8-(UP)- -- Mrs. Martin Johnson is my choice to win the national open golf championship, which starts tomor- row over the Chery Hills course.
 l pick Mrs. Johnson because the past 13 years of her life have been spent in the jungle. She is accus- toned to the chatter of monkeys, the shrill cry Of tropical birds, and the eyer-prescnt threat of Pythia which is plural of Python. ct isn't --ed.)
 The rough that surrounds the Cherry Hills course is the nearest thing to South American and Afri- can jungies that we have ever had ia America. I do not guess at this. I know. Because on yesterday, in company with Al Watrous, Lawson Little, and Joe Before, l played the Cherry Hills course.
 For l8-holes I drove into places that Stanley would not have dared, even had he heard Liycngstones "halioo." from just across the brush. Wild places. Hot and fe- tA places. Places where the cry of the Bengal tiger mingled with the sinister roar of the ant eater.
 This all came as surprise to me, because when I played the course seven months ago 1t was q lovely and natural course. Trees grew where trees were supposed to grow. Bushes sprang up only from their native habitat. Only snakes and animals native to Colorado roamed Cherry Hills. went around the course at that time in 108. To- day the best I could do was l28. This makes 1t obvious, even to little Freddy back there on the back row, that the course has been toughencd l8 strokes worth.
 The first time I played it. I only had to play my golf ball. Today had to make many Selectiye shots. On the third hole, for example, had to make up my mind whether to play my ball. which was resting in an mongoose nest, or q giant banda which was browsing off the waist high rough. elected to play the banda and fortunately he held the green beautifully and was able to get him down in two puts.
 was not so fortunate on the seventh hole. Distracted by the sight of my fore caddy being swung through the tree tops by d phython, l muffed my eight iron chip of q young zebra and only got down in four puts because Little and Wa trous conceded after l had played the zebra within three feet of the pin.
 My difficulties were not lessened by the fact that quite a sizablc gal lery followed our foursome and di- rected rude remarks toward Law son Little, the man who two or three months ago expressed the opinion that Cherry Hills was an enhy course.
 l might AS well get this off my chest at this point: Denver has been very unsporting in It's atti. Jude toward Lawson Little. When hs said Cherry Hills was an easy course, he was speaking Of the Cherry Hills course he knew when he was an amateur, and not the Cherry Hills course that has been hopped up. so to speak, for the na- tional open, They have booed his every practice round, in fact. his every practice shot. Yesterday they have booed his every practice round. in fact. his every practice shot. Yesterday they gloated over every shot he missed and were si- lent when he played il lovely shot. That, to borrow an expression from the Hungarian, Is lousy.
 But to get back to the course. As ] said before when l WAS here ear