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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablctt At last Salt Lake is going to have some big time fights. The West Jordan Assn. has two good ones lined up for the summer. Fullmer vs Turner in a return ! match, and Layne vs Baker in another rematch. The Fullmer - Turner fight should be one of the best seen i in the west in many a moon, i Turner stopped Gene's winning streak and th West Jordan cyclone cyc-lone didn't like that, so you can bet you will see a fight. Of course I think Gene will have to change j his strategy for this one. In the last fight with Turner he went ! back and that isn't his style. Turner was reaching him with too many long left hooks to the body and Gene was always a little too far away to counter effectively. ef-fectively. My guess is he will go after Turner from the bell and if he makes the going rough enough in the first half he could win. Turner at 150 is a rough customer, any heavier than that he loses his speed. But he is in smart hands and that will probably prob-ably be taken care of. The Baker-Layne go should draw the biggest house in Utah's history. Fans like the big boys. I think that Baker will win, but if Layne is in shape it will be worth watching. Baker should know that he will have to be tops for this one. In the past he didn't like training too well. Layne was troubled that way as well. With Archie Moore beating Valdez both Layne and Baker should know that this is their big opportunity. I understand Baker gets a $16,000 guarantee. Shouldn't be hard to make for this one. Too bad the West Jordan Jor-dan association doesn't have a TV connection. The other fight that is supposed suppos-ed to be on the docket has Milo Savage of Salt Lake taking on Holly Mims. Jack McCarthy's boy Savage beat Williams at ! Seattle last week and stopped Williams' winning streak. This one is supposed to go on at Derks Field, home of the Bees, in the j first week of June. I talked to j the boys in charge of Derks to-jday to-jday and they said they had not Ibeen contacted on it as yet. Getting Get-ting the field shouldn't be too much of a problem. McCarthy has friends in high places. I for one hope it goes because this should be the scrap of the year. Mims is always trying and Savage Sav-age likes the rough going. Handled Hand-led right I think this one should pay its way as well. Hope these bouts are not just a dream, and they tell me they are not. Should be a great summer sum-mer for the fight fans of Utah that have suffered oh so long. |