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Show FRANK K. BAKER I TELEGRAM SPORTS fOITOft. Jackie Burke, the Ogdcn welterweight, may soon be returning to the fistic wars in the east. The Junction city gladiator, who has been back in the state only a couple cou-ple of weeks following three months of campaigning east of the Mississippi, now has a chance to start in again, according to a letter from J. R. Basco, his eastern man- ger. Basco writes me from his Barberton, Ohio, home that he has tentatively closed arrangements for Burke to meet Johnny Lucas of Camden, N. J., at Cumberland Md., in a ten-rounder August 9. Cumberland boxing promoters at first had Cocoa Kid lined Up as Burke's potential opponent, but Lucas, who has been going strong along the Atlantic seaboard, came along and whipped the kid. Basco also declares that Champion Barney Ross would come to Utah and tackle Burke here in his home state if somebody here would like to undertake the promotional arrangements. Ross beat Burke a few weeks ago at New Orleans. Now is the time for something to be done about it if the auto racers expect to have a IS- or 20-mile track for their peed runs on the Bonneville sa(t flats next summer. Pilots have dreamed about developing a larger track on ' the flats for years but have com back season after season to confine their activities to the ten- or 12'j-mll courses which have been used from the start If an enlargement is to be made, workmen will have to cut down the dykes which run across a large portion of substantial salt. The salt is soft along these dykes, however, and must be given a year or so to properly harden sufficiently to support the constant pounding from the racing machines. That's why the dyke ought to be cut through now. Perhaps a larger course would be feasible then by another racing season. The tracks now in use are perfect circles. Because of the peculiar shape of that section of the salt flats along the north side of the U. S. highway 40, a 20-mile circular cir-cular track cannot be laid out without putting portions of the track out along the edges, where the cake is too thin to support the heavy racing machines. 1 Surveyors have worked out an oblong track, however, how-ever, that could be kept on substantial salt and provide two straightaways on each side. The ends probably would be arcs from a 10-mile circle and would have to be driven at slightly less speed than would be utilized on the straight stretches. |