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Show FRANK K. BAKER i 1 TELEGRAM SPORTS EDITOR. W-elBansB'-)e It is pleasing to learn from H. F. Russell, local golfing enthusiast, that the United States Golf association is thinking think-ing about arranging one of its sectional qualifying trials for the national open here again this summer. The local adepts must turn out at least a dozen entries if Salt Lake City is designated as one of the qualifying points, but that number should be comparatively easy to get The advantage ad-vantage of having the trials here is one the local golfers should hang onto zealously. Besides keeping the community definitely in the national golfing whirl, it will afford qualifying opportunities opportu-nities to several players who would not devote the time and incur the extra expense of going to some other city for the test. This feature alone might lead to the earlier uncovering of a star who could go unnoticed if such opportunities were not laid so conveniently at his doorstep. The open this year will be held at the Mill Valley club in historic Philadelphia. The qualifying trials probably will be held May 22 over 36 holes. Ed Kingsley and Jerry Henderson qualified for Utah's two positions last summer. It seems that John Cobb, tha husky English fur broker and speed demon who has helped make racing history an Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, just can't help doing things in a big way. The intrepid Briton who held the world's land speed record briefly at 350.2 m.p.h. last fall has Just finished a record-breaking fur sale in Russia, according ta a wireless dispatch t the' New York Times. According to the dispatch, the soviet fur auction just 'Contlniwd M FolMMrtn Fa.) Backseat Driving (CosuaaeS Fran rnatiu rw) ended at Leningrad waa tha moat successful sine tha bol-shevist bol-shevist revolution, with a record total sales of $2,500,000 to about 120 foreigners, including a group of 35 Americans. Cobb handled the auction for the third year id English, with prices running 10 to 15 per cent above tha general world wholesale average. , ' Cobb plans to bring his racer to Utah again this summer and make another assault upon the record now held by his countryman. coun-tryman. Captain George E. T. Eyston, at 357.50 m.p.h. His sue cess with tha machine last season in what was tha car's experimental ex-perimental year was outstanding. He and Reid Railton, its designer, de-signer, had estimated that 350 m.p.h. would be sufficient to lift the record and they got that much out of it in its first real crack at the mark. And while Captain Eyston recovered the record, Cobb did convince a skeptical world that he is on the road toward still greater speeds with his. policy of reducing the weight of his craft It weighs less than half of what Captain Eyston's seven-ton Thunderbolt does, accelerates remarkably fast and is the first light car which hasn't crashed after topping 200 m.p.h. |