Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

• I • P AGE NINE in the main and was never a threat as Haaby came from third place in the early la ps to pass Dick Hammer and Gu y Lou is and h old off a lastlap charge by Louis for his fourth main event win and the fastest 15 laps of 1965 - 5:55.29. Bruce fin ished third, Hammer fourth, Tanner fifth and Ca l Rayborn sixth. Tan ner still h as a commanding poin t le ad of 2,025 to 1,498 for Haaby. Amateur poin t leader Eddie Hammond also lost , and hi s defeat could prove far more costly than Tanner's. Hammond, w ho dropped out with mechanical trouble for the second straight week, watched from th e pits as J im Nicholson, riding a Triumph, won his ninth main of the year and u pped his po int total to 1,466 - just 56 less than Hammond. Jim missed a shift and came from last place to w in . P aul Conser rie and Gene Romero both among the top five amateurs: scratched with mechanical troubles leaving only Ch uck Jones to chal~ lenge Nicholson. J ones grabbed the early lead with Nicholson dead last but the race ended with J ones secand and Sonn y Nutter third, J ohnny Isaacs fared better than the other point leaders, winning his 14th heat in track record time (2:04.97) and adding his lOth main , (ninth in a row), with a 3:21.26 victory over Ron Kruse man and Bar ry Whitmore. SAN JOSE Y2-MILE REOPENS RACING Close racing throughout the day highlighted the five star flat track race presented last Sunday by the San J ose Sportsman MC on the full half-mile d irt track at the Santa Clar a County Fairgrounds in San Jose. Perhaps the finest race of the day was the Novice main. Southern California's Tim Harris, who had won his heat and the Novice Dash shot to an early lead and a ppeared to be an VAMAHA O . ~l :l'"I ~DU CAT RENTALS SERVICE PARTS SALES easy winner until he hit a ho le in the sou th turn and went everywhere but off, losing two positions to K en Lewis and Mike Yam. These three riders then tangled for several laps swapping the lead intermittently. On the last lap a phenominal job by Lewis pulled him even and he outpowered Harris to the line to win by half a wheel In the Amateur m ain tw o separate battles were w aged for first and third positions. Ab ou t six lengths separated Kenny Helling and Les Lollar in their first place scra p from Weldon FULL CIRCLE By David Shaw It was the expert semi main, the last event before intermission at Ascot Park Friday night. Ten riders rolled their machines toward the starting line. Another rider, the first alternate, stood at the edge of the infield-his helmet in hi s hand, his tuner sitting next to him on his bike. The alternate looked intently at the ten starters, apparently counting them over and ove r aga in t o himself, hoping desperately he would find only nine riders - and an opening. Unlike most alternates, he did not walk away when he sawall 10 on the line and ready to go. Eyen when the starter gave the riders one la st look, nodded and mounted his stand, the alternate remained po ised at th e gate, straining to hear the ca ll that would never come. When the flag dropped, his tuner immediately wheeled the m achine back toward the pits. The alternate ri der stood still a few moments,. lowered his head, turned and slow ly fol lowed. On the track, Mel Lacher was on his way to vic tory over Eddie Wirth, Bill Ershig and Manley - hardly a championship field. I n the pits, first alternate AI Gunter - Slid in' Al Gunter, the threetime eigh t-m ile national champion and only dirt track rider ever to win 300 races in hi s career-took off the blue jersey with th e big white "3" and slum ped d isconsola tely a gainst the guard rail, only half-interested ill watching a race he onc e would have scorn ed, but no w wanted de arly t o ride. RIDE NOW PA LATER Y R TAwNAle D Haaby leads his heat, fo llowed by Pau l Bostrum, Bill Ershig and all the rest. Number 53z Tom Clark led half the ma in. Novice Ken L ewis # 11 7 won by inches over Tim Harris. COME ':r Hogu e and R ick Vetter who were d icing for third. After two tight heat races and a nip and tuck dash, the ex perts stretched out in the main and played follow th e leade r after the f irst fe w la ps. Off the lin e Eddie Mulder led the pack in another perfec t start but qu ick ly rlropped back. Tommy Clark took over th e lead and stretched his advantage by a comfortable margin ove r Dick Mann an d Dan Haaby . Midwa y through Mann began hi s move and m an aged to pass Clark com ing off the back st rai ght going into the north tum . F r om then on he was ne ver headed. CYCLE INC, I SJ2<1 H A WTHORNE BOUL E VARD . LA WN DALE, CALIF . S P .2· 1822 05. 6- 9546 ')ORllll1 DUC."I~ D E A L ER Pro mp t C.O .D. Mo il-O rder On MATCHLESS Ports FLOYD BURK MOTORCYCLES 15514 S. Atl8nt ic Btvd., Co m pton , C.Uf. MONTEREY SHORT TRACK By Dale Boller "Mr. Sh ort Track" of Northern Ca lifornia, Butch Corder, capitalized on a three r id er spill in the last lap of th e main event to claim the vi ctory at a two star short track m eet held in Monterey Saturday night. Dick Mann an d Phil Cancilla battled for the lead around the short, bumpy oval throughout the main until Cancilla went down on t he last lap and Mann unavo idably ran over him, breaking his collar bone. Corder avoided the fallen r iders and sped his Triumph acr oss the line ahead of Tommy Clark and Byron F arnsworth. Th e eveni ng began w ith Mert Lawwill setting fa st time on the same Dud P erkins Sprint which won 31 short tr ack r aces throughout the nation this year . Mann rode another Perkins Sprint to second fast t im e. The bumpy track w h ich w as se cond gear r ight leg d ow n all the w ay ar ound claimed many victims. Mert Lawwill sa id he d idn't believe there were more than three riders w ho didn't go d own at lea st onc e. 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