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10 MO VIES- Conlla.M frOII , • • APRIL 24 ·BA KERSFIELD CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA & NEVADA Third Annual Tri-State Classic SCRAMBLES AT SPROCmS PARK located at the bonomof C hina Grade Loop, near Bakersfi eld STARTING TIME: 10 a.m. Smal! Bi~es 12:30 a.m. Big Bikes Sponsored by the Sprockets M otorcycle Club for the benefit of BOY SCOUTS Of AMERICA Beach T riUD1llh . Jack Baldwin and Bob Ewin g r e pre sen ti n g BSA and Dutch Fielde r of Cre nshaw Honda. 1n May. Cycle Ne ws movies will bring the s how to fans in northe rn Californ ia. Pl eas e watch the Cale ndar of Ev en ts for the time and pl ace . (All entries must be postmarked before Midnight, April 18, 1966. Deadline for tech. inspecti on, 9:30 a.m and 12 noon day of the . races. M Entries to Sprockets M. C., P.O. Box 6132, Bakersfield, ail California.) american cycle associatiea Motorcycle Road Races CARLSBAD RACEWAY MARCH 20th 12:00 pm All N;A ClASSU a.us. INCI..LJ)ItC THE laoACJO 1WD RACD FOR nt[ "PIKlIIUCTIClI< IEGINS AT cuss. PIIACT1Ct ,..30. omna QOS( AT 11:30. FOR ADULTS ONLY The Horstman SUPER-CYCLE SPECIAL HODA KA with rigid re.u sus pe nsion $295. CUSTOM HODAKA with Swinging arm suspe nsion...S3 15. Hodak. 90cc Ene•••••••••• ••$139.50 1I0unllne Kit 10 fll Rupp cJ cl HORST MA N $54. 95 MFG. CO. 1301 S. Sham rock, Monrov ia, Calif. 359-2578 9 horsepower, 7 0 Ibs. THE FINISH UNE By BO XY ROCKWOOD All the young men went west like the man said a few years back and now all the good ones turn around and head east again- -Ior Dly.tona. Th e 200 mile national championshi p and I 00 big points are at stake th is Sund ay afternoon . Roger Reiman will try to become the Iir st rider e ver to win thr ee in a row at Daytona. li e will also try to be the first to win the e vent four time s. The effort extended this ye ar for the annual speed week is unsurpassed. Ri der s. distributors and tune rs have been aiming at the big one for many weeks. F or all events the re are over I. 000 entries. The cream of American racing talent, and many that are not , are all at the beach by the time you read this. Triumph built and tuned six machines months ago in England. B SAdid the same with five rigs. Yamaha dry-docked all their winni ng machines from last year and had six new jo bs flown ove r for the event. Harl ey-Davids on was at Daytona in January tes tin g engines. ti res and fairin gs . Th at new Sprint is something else to see in action. Suzu ki has been building and testing day an d ni ght to get read y in ti me. Tr iumph an d B SAare mak ing the ir be s t effo rt to grab the tit I e away from H-o. Dick H a m me r . Ga ry Ni xon. Skip Van Leeuwen and Buddy Elmo re are j ust a few In the tige r's den. BSA has long taken a back seat at the speedway but has coralled the likes of Dick Mann, Dan Baaby , J ody Nicbolas , Don Vesco and Eddie Moran to try and turn the tables this year. H- D will pin their hopes on the two rid ~r s that finis hed one-two last year, Reiman and Mert Lawwill. For a backup crew they have Bart Markel and G eor ge Roeder . National champions al l. H-D, BSA and Triumph will pit money, mechanics and engines against the only private team entry which is again the U Flyin g M' s " of Bob Hansen and his spotless three-machine Matchless "TeamHansen" entry. Bob has gone coast to co ast this year to obtain talent to challenge the factories . Team captain is Ralph White who won two national s for Bob last year. New riders are Swede Savage and - first year eastern ace . Di ck Qap rie py from Mass . The Norton twins will make a try, depe nding heavily on the ex perience of the popular Buddy P arr iott. The day belore the big one they run the 100 mile 2:1 0 cc race thai pits the best amateurs against the ex perts. This year there is a record breaking 1 2:1 entries with lIlmaha topping the list with '1:1 riders on the " Ripping Rags" sp ecials. Fo rty riders will be on the potent Sprints of H-D, Two time wi n n e r Dick Hammer will agaln watch the 250 ' s from the pit'!>. He is not entered. Last year's winner , Dick Mann. has switched from Yamaha to Suzuki so it is wide open for new combinations In victory lane. The Bates Co. and Ernie P ica have been s w amp e d with orde rs for colored leathers of all variations. Dick Jackson has been working ove rtime painting helmets and fairings for the California aces who will invade F lorid a with over 80 entries. Suzu ki heads Into co mpe tition for the firs t time with blu e leathers, trimmed in whit e and red . Th e machin es ar e blue trimmed In whit e . Th e Hansen Mat ch les s te am is azain orange and white from top to bottom and front to back. These three team s ar e the only ones that hav e arrived at one colo r for the e nti re group . One exceptio n is the Dud P erk in s H -D team that p a ir s Laww ill and Ken Ridd er wit h the blu e and orange co mbination of leathers. Fresno' s Monte Miller has entered a three rider amateur team this year that has Pete Bodette , Dick Hayes and Lee Patterson in the saddles. All will be using engines that have led both the amateur and expert races in F1orida.in past races. PREDICTION TIME: and we ha ve to predict a Californi a sweep this ye ar with Lawwill, White or Cal Ray born home fi rst In the 2 0 0 miler. In the 2 5 0 cc race it s houl d be White . Parriott or Lawwill with the checkered nag. A young Florida lad by the name of Hollings wor th shou ld take the novice 75 mile r but Walt Fulton Jr. could change that one . The amateur big bike event is wide open but Bodette and Ridder will get into the limeligbt before the rac e is over. " A real surprise at Da y ton a will be Swede Savage. He has the tools to work with for the lirst time since he barely missed winning the amateur rac e in '6'1. Will give yo u the highlights after I get back from Florida next wee k. This should be a Clllifornia ye ar . SAN fRANCISCO CYCLE SCENE By Darry I Skra bak (Cont in ue d from last week ) " RACE WA R" Last year with audience s uppo rt falling at Champion. local officials lai d a portion of the fault on co mpeting night IT s crambles ra ces at Hay war d. The li ttle IT track , t hen running a sportsman se ries , was sald by the officials to be drawing fans from Champion. The officials urged' ri de rs not to compete in the Hayward races . The attempted boycott was too late . however, Champion closed it s half-mile program and also c an c el ied the speedway's TT e vents. At a bout the same time a San Francisco moto rcycle club experienced tro u ble that was to bring motorcycle racing back to Champion and escalate a " race war" bet ween th e A.M.A. and an other sanctioning organization. the American Federation of Motorcycli sts, or A.F.M. Th e troubl e be gan when the club, the Bay City Motorcycle Club, lost ac.cess to a scrambl es trac k in Marin County when the land chan ged owne rs hip . Th e clu b which financ es itself th rou gh ra cin g r'; venue , ha d to thr ow ra ces or go bankrupt. It searche d for a track. Ch ampion Speedway , as it worked out: was the sale track available. A satisfactory ar ran gement was ne got iat ed with the Speedway owner an d the club set about laying out an infield scram bles course and promoting a series of races . But the local A.M.A. officials balked. No sportsmen ev ent s -,rt professional tracks, they said (th is despite the Hayward TT track having hosted both money and trophy events for years. ) The club pleaded its financial woes, but the orncials remained adamant. So th e clu b pull ed a switch: us ing it s A.F. M. charte r, it secured an A.F. M. s an c tio n for the events and ran the rac es anyway. Th e A. F.M. waived membership requ ire ments for competitors. the rac e s were successful. the club made money. For its impudence the club lost its A.M.A. charter, but club ollicers are unperturbed. Though they hope to regain use of their former scrambles track for the upcoming season, they say they will return to Champion if necessary. At pres en t, racin g ar ound San Francisco is unde r the weathe r. but the season cale nda r is one of the fullest in rece nt years. A ne w hall-mile facility for nrotesstonal racing is reported to be nearing completion on the north e as t ern side of the bay. Called Altamont Speedway and located near Livermore , the track is slated lor its rlrst TT race March 13, a SUnday. A series of 2'1 Saturday night oval races . begins May H . Short tr a ck racing may be makin g a come bac k in the north. The class A 250s have alre ady begun a monthly series at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. scene of the annual jazz festival . The t rack is the perimeter of a tennis court with a tanbark s urface. something that makes for very squir rely ra cing. A weekly QUarter-mile series opens June 3 at Vallejo and is scheduled for 12 Friday nights. Most bus y in the nort h will be IT men. They'll be rid in g at Altam ont, San J os e. Selma and Hayward. (O:mtinued next week) • •