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l ... .. CI> l>O Cl. <0 <0 .... '" .,; "" ::s ~ '" ::s l>O ~ CI) ~ ~ z .. ~ ....:l U :>.. u , Mike L1thlculD, her. 'In third place, h.lped him to a new record. Exp.rt winner Gen. Romero All EXTRA PAYDAY FOR THE TWIST & TURN BUNCH leads Dick Ham..er as h. "&bts for his third consecutlv. Ascot win. TT TIME AT ASCOT mount.d Amateur Steve Scott charged along with. Bradford and B.rry In tho earl, laps. Trlum~h "I ...... I . . flrla'" laid GeM - - . . . . . lie was. ~ Is stili ... hIs v. LA• • • (51) Is .. Ills . . , _ _ aft..... Ascet J-Po .., ., as By Cbucll Clayton • • "I thought I was flying," said Gene Romero last week after he had won the Expert main event for the third consecutive Friday night at Ascot Park.. Last Friday promoter J.e. Agajanian replaced the custer mary half-mile slide show with a special TT-steepleebase attraction in honor of the tremendous Expert exodus siphoned off by the 50-Mile Championship in Springfield, Illinois. It made no never-mind to tiger Gene, wbo bas Triumphed consistently in the two previous half-mile features. He t.. ns right and jumps just about as well as he Aattzacks •.• all except that first jump in the final. Dicing dangerously with Skip Van Leeuwen Romero overshot the shutorf mark and soared otf into the night, to end in a front tire wheelie while Skipper scooted into the lead. Van Leeuwen's recent luck hasn't changed, bowever, and he soon blew the rear tire while lengtbening his advantage. Skip's tire collapsed coming orr the jump and be controlled his Tri- Au'- Jolla Bradford strat.s that be Is .... hardest eII_gID, TT'w anIIllId as be leads JIll Her" over J....... umpb beautifully to a stop, reluotantly giving uP the win to Romero. There are long faces at Long Beacb Triumph today. SOmebody left tbe tube clamp out. This wee k Romero rode the • spare TT bike- tuned by Bill and Dick Love. 5th Ranked Amatenr Beats 1st Ranked Earlier that evening, Jobn Bradford demonstrated (in case there was any doubt) that be is still the hardest char&ing Amateur TT-er around, and growing more invincible every event, it seems. Bradford took tbe lead on tum two, leaving Ritchie Thorwaldson no place to go but the wall. Tben "Big Bad Brad" proceeded to give runner-up Jim Berry tbe impression that "if you get in my way I'll use you for traction.- Anyway, Ber" let bim have his way and setUed for a close second. But one of these days, boy, just you walt. Before that happened, Mike Lithicum set a new record in the Novioe climax on his Honda. Mike lowered tbe old time rrom 5:12.62 to 5 minutes 11 seconds even. Some of tbe credit sbould go to G. Roseberry (Benelli), J. Brown (Jawa) and Roy Spiker (Enfield) for chasing Mike so bard. The lead changed around among the front runners so often it looked like a relay race. Earlier still, some riders were injured. But 1 was lucky and missed all tbat. (Results on pace 16) ........._~-..- HARLEV- DAVIDSON OF LBNG BEACH U SPECIAL" 1967 Sprint SS Available HERE! 3654 No. Long Beach Blvd. 426-7101 ~~. . .- -......- . . . ,...I!IIII!-~~ , .. .......