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SCRAMBLIN
AROUND
By Maureen Lee
DirtDiggers Reject AMA Offer
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lIere i the addre s for .I'our Corriganville Entry. DirtDiggers M.C.. P.O.
Box 2513,
uh'er
ity, CaJifornia.
Standard ntry blank required with an
entry fee of 7.00. ee you there!
From all that has happened since
last Wednesday night's Special meeting
between the DirtDiggers, the AMA alld
the Disl. 37 club representatives, one
thing is now certain. Corriganville is
not goillg to be an AMA event. IL will
be all ACA sanctioned scrambles with
an Internatiunal profetisional and motocross event, open to professional rIders
under F.I.M. rules.
If you're considering entering the
International class. you can't ride anything bigger thau a 500 as the points
will no doubt be counting towards the
500 Internatiunal Mntocruss Championship. Not only that, you must have the
correct license, so we suggest you
contact the ACA office for information.
Dist. 37 Referee and president of the
club.
Big things are under wa.y in the
District, but one thing we must all try
to r member regardletis of how hot we
get under the collar with tbe AMA. etc.,
etc., for pete' sake gang, let's not
throw the baby out with the bath water!
Secede From The AMA?
The DirtDigger • it appeared, had
invited District 37 representatives to
their club meeting chiefly to discuss
the proposal that District 37 secede
from the AMA and run its own affairs
independent of the ational Association.
It is not known whether this proposal
will be accepted or voted down when
it is brought up at next month's Sports
Committee Meeting. In the meantime
Cycle News will offer equal space so
tbat both sides of the question can be
heard. We note with approval that the
AMA is now paying attention to local
sportsmen are beginning to take a "ealty
interest in the go"ernment of their
sport.
THE FINISH LINE
By ROXY ROCKWOOD
(714) 847-7629.
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District 37 Sports Committee President Jean Carter and Secretary Bill
Adams came to tbe meeting bearing the
largest conces'sion that AMA bigwigs
ha ve made to lncal sportsmen in anyone's memory--the promise of a double
sportsman-and-professional sanction for
Corriganville. This they believed waS
what tbe DirLDiggers' grumble was about,
the fact that the recent ban on professional riderti from competing ill sportsmen events. It would have prohibited,
for example, Eddie Mulder, two-time
champion of Ccrriganville. from defending his reco!'d.
Carter and Adam:; could have saved
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their breath. Tbe rebel club bad aiready
decided to reject the AMA offer. Posters
advertising Corriganville as an FLM
event were stacked around the room.
Reasons for the rejection were the
high cost and unreasonable demands of
the AMA insurance company. the cooperation and assistance it was receiving as an international event, and a
history of indifference to local problems
on the part of our National Association.
Tbe belated notice taken of District 37
and tbe DirLDiggers beefs was regarded
'''' "too littlp. tno late" by Larry Reed.
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FEE'I'S FRACTURES FOOT
Fans of tI3x Chuck ("Feets") Minert will be sorry to bear he cracked a
bone in his foot at Carlsbad Sunday.
but they should cheer up to learn it
isn't serious.
Feets took to the fence to avoid
fallen Joe Clocow. His foot will be in
a cn~t for :l few weeks.
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AFM SCENE
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Markel and Rayborn really putting
it on the rest of the troops la t week
end. Markel was in hi old 1960 form
and bounci ng off the A cot cra hwall like a tennis ball. He' still
the only rider who can dri ve off the
wall--and win. Lacher tried it and hi
econd 250cc win. This is the ecWANT SOMETHING FOR
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ond ti me he ha. sCOl'cd th double
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at San Diego H-D ales. Thi was
probably due to this being the la t
CLASS "A" SHORT TRACK ..,. ~
major 250 race of the year and Ray~ AMA SANCTIONED
born will have all new equipment for
'{'7.
The three factory lightweight
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eremonies and a fine ight, indeed. ..,.- APPLY TO: C & C Enterprises
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They include just about every top
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Iittle jobs once again put on a show ~ MADERA FAIRGROUNDS
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that rivaled the big hike national.
The three factory I ightwe ight
t.cams. H-D, Yamaha and Suzuki, will
be joincd by a fourth tpam next yetiI'
as the Kawasaki ofTicial were on
hand to view the race and stated
they will also have a team under the
AMA banner in '()7.
The big bike may have been around for many, many more years but
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they still let the newer mall jobs
steal the adverti ing thunder by creTRIUMPH OF BURBANK
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the paper with these ofTicial team .
Gerry &lguin finally won himself
a big one. Gerry, who i hi own
press agent, had been denied a win
earl ier thi
year at Da.vtona and
pringfield by just plain bad luck .
PARTS GALORE!
He made itlook easy at Carlsbad and
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will also run at the fairgrounds.
To date this column i batting a
thousand on the Californi!}. national
prediction with Tannel' and Rayborn.
We predicted earLier that Law will
wrap up the acramento win for the
second time but this can be the mo t
far out of the three with riders Iike
Nixon, Markel and Roeder on hand.
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