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NO. 33
THURSDAY.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
DEATH VALLEY
COMES TO LIFE
3,000 Enter Worlds
Biggest Road Run
'Way out beyond the scrambles
courses, ou t past the hare 'n hound
country, in between the shift ing sand
dunes a nd the purple mountains li es
Dea th Valley, the mecca each ye ar
for every activ e r oad r ider in the
state.
The st ory of the ann ual Death Valley Run is like the story of motorcycling in Californ ia - it just grew
and grew . This year 3,000 riders sent
in th eir entry fees in time t o be eligL
ble for the mountain of a wards that
were given out by the D.V. Commit tee led b y Dick Hutchins. Honcho
"H utch" and his hard-working crew
set up a beautiful run this year, as
they have for 10 years past. At le ast
5,500 riders attended, we would guess.
One Inyokern County S he riff we
spoke to said for the last two years
d e pu ties have drawn lots to see who
wo uld get to work the Dea th Valley
Run. "It's so m uch fun," he said.
Clu bs and individuals from California, Nevada, Arizona, Idah o, I lli nois a nd as far away ' as Mon tr eal ,
Canada came to t a ke part in the fun .
Th er e w ere the t radi tio na l contests,
presid ed ove r by t he Com mit tee, a nd
w e noted happily t han only one u n ifor m club wo re the traditional " Gestapo" garb. Mostl y their cost umes rese mbled color fu l march ing band u nifor ms.
If the number of enthusiasts a t the
Dea th Valley Run keeps increasing at
its prese n t rate, we wonder if the
d eser t will become to o small to hold
them all . S hould this e ver become a
problem, the Com mittee will no do ub t
solve it, as they have never been
stumped in the past. E ven if they
have to line Dea th Valley with bunk
beds all the way t o S tovepipe Wells .
(P hotos and Con te st R esu lts page 7)
"Just where in the Football League rulebook does it
specifically say we can't be motorized?"
Loo k out for the "F ear some F oursome of the L.A. Ram s def ens ive
line! As if t heir ove r half-ton of combined bulk we ren't impressive .
en ough for their offen sive n umber s, now they . have h orse~o:v er . Actu ally the team pa r k their Hond as before ven tu ring on the gr idiron , but
usu ally they manage to overcome the opposition anyway. From left
are: Chuc k J ay, Dick Dor r esteyn , oops we mean: Lamar Lundy , Rasey
Grier, Merlin Olsen and David Jones.
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F or news of other Ram 's doings (M.C., not F .T.) , turn to the California Calendar on page 12 .
TONY HERE FOR
TRIUMPH-BSA BLDG.
CEREMONY
Princess Margaret
To Attend?
At 11:00 a.rn, next Tuesd ay- an
honest-to-Betsy m ember of t he British Royal F a mil y w ill arrive to lay
the cornerstone for the new co mbined
Triumph-BSA headquarters in Du arte.
Recently wedded to Brit ain's Prin,
Earning his kee p in a straig htforward way, the Earl of Snowdon .
(continued on page four)
SCRAMBLED BRANDS CONTEST WON BY U.S. NAVY
James E. Brammer is $5 richer for havin g kept close track of AMA
Na tional Champions and the brands th ey w on on this ye ar . His w as
the only correct entry among earliest postmarks in our "Unscramble
the Brands" contest announced in th e Oct. 21 issue of CYCLE NEWS.
Brammer, a sailor servin g at the Lon g Beach Na val Station , postmarked his entry Oct. 21, the sa me date the conte~t was ~nounced.
Other entries which could have tied Brammer either om itted one
national race or left a brand unscrambled .
Of the entries postm arked Oct. 22, tho se which were correct should
r ece ive Honorable Mention and free m embership in the Successful
Cycle News Proofreaders M.C. These we re se nt in by :
Mr. Blackie Br uce, Norwalk
Mr. Keith Hu mmer, Canoga Par k
. Mrs . George B. Meiferdt, J oliet, Illin ois
Mr . Bob Wa tkins, Tor rance
Congratulations Mr. Bramm er, your prize can be claim ed at CYCLE
NEWS as soon as the next subscription comes in . And if all the unsuccessful sharpshooters will kindly turn to page 10, th ere th e correct
answ er appears. We hope.
CALIFORNIA STATE T.T.
CHAMPIONSHIP RACE
Ed di e Mulder bo u nce d back after
a bad spill in the dash to close ou t
th e 1965 Ascot T .T. season with a
fl ag to fla g w in in the big 20-La p
California Sta te T.T. Ch ampi onship
race Satu rday nigh t at Ascot.
Edd ie came close to m issing his
second big title of th e year w hen he
got off his T r iumph h a rd in the first
turn of the trophy dash. A lert flaggers untangled him b ut he missed the
da sh.
Mulder was in command all the
w ay in the 20-lap champion ship race.
Dorresteyn made a b id midway in t he
race to ov ertake the flying Mulder
but a sour engine dropped hi m back
to third. Hammer was sec ond.
Besides w inning the state title,
Mulder also took the h igh poin t honors for the sec ond straight year.
J im Nicholson added to h is all
aro u nd laurel s by win ni ng the a mat eur fi n al f or Harley-Davidson . Two
nea r -crashes nearly cancelled his
hopes but his closest challenger, Ge ne
Romero d id n't pr ofit by Jim's errors.
Romero wo n his heat for his 13th
straigh t win before losin g the track
t o Nicholson in the r ed -h ot opening
lap of the final.
Finding h im self
pushed back in last pl ace, Gene r eal ly poured it before crashing.
The be st r ace of the night was for
the novi ce state title. H onda-riding
h alf miler Ron Krusem an, for t he
fi rst ti me this year in TT racing, w on
his hea t, then ca me back to wi n the
dash ove r Rich Thor w al dson .
It was all Kruse man in the final
unti l his e ngine started tha t tell tale
m iss that sl owed his pace.
Ron still held off repeated challenges by Thorwal son a nd loo ked li ke
the winner, on on e cylinder , unti l the
fi nal lap when R ich eased pas t t o
win by a narrow m argin .