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Show Accurate Iron Player Will Win Next Open Meet on Tiny Greens Editor's note: Henry McLemore, United Press sports writer and daily contributor to The Telegram sports pages, is in Salt Lake City today to cover the Ute-C U. football game and Captain Eyston s mile rU" Todies story is about the Cherry Hills golf course In Denver, site of the 1938 U. & open golf championship. McLemore visitea the course Wednesday. By HENRY McLEMORE I nlted Pn-a Sport Writer I can't tell you the name of the nest or l3g United States open golf champion, but I can tell you. this far in advance, the sort of gams he will play. t . He'U be a fellow with a tee shot that'a accurate rather than long the sort of hitter who is good for 0 or thereabouts in distance, but whose marksmanship leaves no "thereabouts" as to where the bail will Una. But the feature or his game that wiU win him the title will be bis iron play. The 138 open champion will be another Tommy Armour with the steel blades, becinning with the No. 1 and going right through to th finish. Plays as Rough This Isn't guesswork on my part, f played the Cherry Hills course at Denver, site of the next open. Wednesday, Wed-nesday, along with the home professional, pro-fessional, Harold Long, and we examined ex-amined it from starting tee to home sreen. Harold played the fairways and I played the rough and between be-tween the two of us we saw it all It's no cwejf for the eat and out pa r hitter. It's SSSS yards emit for perfect control. The 0t-yard 0t-yard "sprayer" wont finish In th money. They might do all right on th first nine, but woo unto the wild hitter coming home. On eight of the nine last holeav the tenth being the exception he will find ditches ready to welcome tee and second shots that are off line. Cherry Hills, th first cours west of Chicago to be honored with the open championship, has the smallest small-est greens of any fine cours I have ever seen. The carpets are pocket handkerchief sise all the way around and If Gene Sarasen were right when he said that big and accessible accessi-ble greens are the chief answer to today's sensational acoring. then Cherry Hills will put the ol' damper- 00 on th boys. The boys will find the targets out her as hard to hit as a squirnL Adding Yardage Probably th finest hole on the course is No. 14. which, along with 12 others, is having yards added to j its distance. This hole requires s fairly long and perfectly pieced drive For the second, anywhere from a No. iron to a braasie is necessary. The minute green is guarded on the right by, a trap and 1 (CoalaaiM ea FoUowiae tar |