8
...
...
t>Il
CL
C
o
~
~
~
en
W
...J
III
~
II:
U
en
I
tt-
~
...J
...J
e:c
>
...J
e:c
II:
W
Do.
:!!1:
Fau In th. covered cundstlllds • Imperial Fal,vo...ds st.,.d till dark to clift' the efforts of the two-whftl.d sportsmen.
Imperlal trophy ........ MI IS Jane Lov• •
Trav is P. ttan, an the pole. blnts 'off to win the op... Exp.rt fin l.
~
Otuck Baker. ZUndapp. was first , W
ayne Hosaka. Hodaka, number 2 In lOOcc 20·
for this autumn.
In ra cin g action , the 250cc expe rt
mota cross pro vided the day' s cl oses t
compet ition wit h a tense , 3-way duel between hi gh-jumpin g J ohn McMurren, Ha rry
Hay es and Bill Sil ve rtho rn. The pac e increased wit h each heat but McMurren
final ly won it on his Bultac o.
Expe rt big- bike action saw Leo St.
Germai ne take the lead in his heat only
to drop way bac k with a loos e shilt l ev er .
Travis Petton won the he at , and as Petton' s onl y serious competition , St . Germain e came through in the s emi, winnin g
it to transfer to the main event. Th e main
was restarted alter several crash es in
the first lap , St. Germaine bein g the victim or one and leavin g P eUon an e asy
rid e to victory . second place , though,
was a battle all th e way , with Le s Hom ,
an amateur, just edging out Vern Gillihan.
Th e bike-bending open novi ces held
up their end of the s how with so me close ,
hard rid ing as well as s pectacul ar s pills.
Dave Cl emo took the s emi on a matchless si n g I e and BSA mounted Gary
McElrath won the main with F red Bevan's
Triumph pushing him al l the way i n a
close 10 lap duel.
Crash of the day was by Impe ri al ' s
o wn Bob HiU, who uninten ti onally got
....der his bik e co ming off the jump, and
at last re port was doin g weU in EI
Centro 's Hos pital.
Th e amateu r 250' s ran a tough mota
cross won by Bi ll Cody on a Montes a
ah ead of Don Harris , Honda.
In 100cc compe ti t ion the exp ert mota
cros s again went to Chuck Baker , who
has made a habit of bringin g his qui ck
Zundapp into first place. A large 100c c
novic e division fought it out in heats and
a main, runnin g s ome unusually close
rac e s . M. G. Satterfield soloed Suzuki to
fir st plac e in the ma in, with Ken Distler
and J ack J ohrls on a short distance behind .
(Re s ults on page 12)
