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.. • .• • • . . . . . . . . . . . . ELL. ...... E. E.EE . . . .11 • I SPOTLIGHT Oil ASCIMILfI SPOTlIGHT ON A SCRAMILER he get racin g? Well. How did be get started racing? Well , when your family are friends with famiy our a re lies who bave ot he r good racers in lOOm li e s hav e other ra c ers the m sucb t he Taylors su ch as tbe Taylor s with #15 Larry Tay lor (now serving in Germany) and the in a nd Walters wi th Class " C" Amateur Lonnie alters witb Cl ass "C· W th e Army can Walters (also in the Army now) how ca n (als o you help it? Scott aske d fo r a bike of asked for hel p his own to ride for fun, but it was n't it wasn't long before he was off to the races l ong ra ces himself. hims e lf. Sc ott used to do a lot of ice-skating Scott us e d l ot Ice-skating but now it's" motorcycles all the time.· ti me." but it ' s " motorcyc les He likes foo t ball because ·there you lik es football becaus e " there bave to use your bead. T he quar terback ha ve us e you r head . The quarterback has to learn the plays and the rest of re s t ha s lear n the team has to understand him.· Basehim. " hall? " Dull !" ball? "Dull'" says Scott . Scott. Now in the 8 th grade, Scot t s ays he 8th grade , SCott says is an a vera ge s tudent , he likes Mathbest average student, like s Mathbes t ge tting hard er of all hut the work is getting barder the a ll but furth er he goes in s c hool. His least l ea s t further school. favorite? En glis h . a lways favorit e? English. "They're always asking you to tear down a sentence and and in g it .· We didn ' t suppose e define it." W didn't su ppose he had any ideas about what he'd like to do id ea s be ' d finisbed school? Scott's when he fini s hed s chool? Sc ott ' s eyes li t lit up, " a pilol' "a pilot. " As tu tbe" rough est course he's ever the' roughest c ourse ridden, ·that would have to be Rosarita " t ha t Rosari ta Beach. Ensenada was a lot of fun this Bea ch. Ense na da year. but Rosarita was rou gher ." W d Ros arita rou gher." Would oul year , rank s ? li ke he like to gr adu ate up to the pro ranks? graduate SCott sure about tha t. "All Scott isn't too su re a bout that. ·All the fun might go out of racing when you rac ing start doin g it for money.· doing money ." Word is ' that Scott an d his huddies W ord tha t SCott and buddi es stage pret ty short trac k s tage some pretty wild s hort track events on their bicycles. "Not quite the t heir bicycl es . qu it e same thing, but the s pirit is tbere' thi ng , spirit there! SCRAMBLIN AROUND Le e By Maureen Lee At Sports Committee meeting ThursCommitt ee Thm5night got kick of day nigbt we llIlt quite a lUck out of the thir teen-yea r Meet thirteen-year old Scott Au t rey. SCott Autrey. Carrying Lightweight No. 141x, Scott Carryin g Li ghtweight 14lx , SCott can alw ays be found Sumay s scooting always Sundays a roun d L.A. a rea tracks in the.. 10 0c c around L .A . area the 100cc t wo Amate ur class a boa rd one of two maAmateur aboard chines, ei th er a n 80 Yamaha or a Van c hines , either an Tech powered with gh Ma c T ech powered with a McCullou gh Mac engme. He ' s been ridin g bikes 10 e ngine . He's been riding hikes two thos e a nd half years with two of those years and hal f ~ears 10 competltlon. He rides with a relaxed in co mpe ti tion. rid e s rela xed na tural st;yle. SCott's natural s t;y le . Scott's only sponso r, his sponsor, dad Don Aut rey , doe s the wrenchAutrey, does bending on the bikes. on na me chosen name cbosen for a " new" club in the "new" cl ub Topanga are a. Some VERY famil iar fa ce s area. familiar faces Its member s we re tbere were there among its members as they presented their shiny new charter from sbiny from pre sented A.M.A. and applied A. M.A. headquarters an d ap pli ed for listing in District 37. Th ey were all dres s ed 37 . They a ll dressed in g in in red jackets and belonged to the re d jacke ts and bel onge d ·Striped Crusaders.· Would you believe "Strip e d Crus a ders . · ridi ng? they dig dirt riding? SpealUng the re' s Speaking of clubs, there's an idea DOW making the rounds that really needs now mak ing tha t so me thought by all eompeuuon riders. some aD competition brou ght up tbe Competi tion It will be brougbt ... to tbe Competition Coomittee, but in the meantime here it Committ ee , t he mean time It is so you can kind of chew it o ver a bit: over Is ca n I first beard from of the I flrl!lt he ard of it Irom Lyman Ham of tbe Sportsmen and then Red Sportsm en M.C., and tbeo Red Ludford of tbe Cbeckers talked about it Thursday the Che cke rs ta lke d abo ut It Thursd ay nigbt, and I say thanks to both you s ay tha nks ni ght , geolJemen. A sucb th is gentlemen. A topic such as this to write about a bout warms a columnists' beart! col umnis ts' he art ! No Points (or Loners? No Po ints for In District 37 we rely on our clubs to Dist ri c t cl ubs run our scrambles, but lately some of la tely Our clubs aren't getting any bigger or bi gger our clu bs aren ' t bet te r the m ju st better and some of them are just in plain trouble. Now to win a coveted low numcoveted lo w trou ble . ber plate, you go out and ride Sunday s at plate , Sundays bunch guys (an d a scrambles run by a buncb of guys (and gals) like yourself wbo a re doing the who are work for tbe day. However, a lot of riders the day . ri ders clu b don't belong to any club and so get -to to ride " free" all season. They don't put "free· Tbey any and ri ght no w any work into their sport an d right now this includes some of our top riders. Others of our top guys belong to clubs guys bel ong and are actually penalized for it as they forbidden events are forbi dden to ride their own eve nts rid e while their " fre e-loading" opposition thei r "free-loading" goes right on riding on those Sunda ys an d ri ght ridin g tho se Sundays and and collecting more points. co llecting poin ts. Now here's the s uggestio n. To help suggestion. here' s buil d cl ubs co nti nue build the clubs up an d to continue ha vand ing good , well-run scrambles , points will i ng good, well-nm scrambles, thos e rid ers bel onging only be paid to those riders belonging to a club. Th i s means that to ge t that get tha t cl ub. This mean s tha t co ve te d #1 pl at e In Distri ct 3 7 much coveted #1 plate in District 37 you'U have to pitch in a nd help run some you' ll ha ve and hel p scrambles fair of the scrambl es yourself. Sounds fatr it? doesn't it? I understand that this was s uggeste d suggested I unde rs tand before but didn't work because people beca us e pe ople got confused to the point that they poi nt co nfused thought you wouldn't even ge t a riding eve n get ri di ng number unless you belonged to a club. numbe r unle ss belo nge d cl ub. This isn't so . You could s till rid.e a s isn' t so. still ride as always if you choose not to join a club, c hoose al ways an d could carry home trophies for wha tand whatever win, unl e ss eve r class you win , but unless you are a club member you would not ge t points get as well. Number plates will be issued as they he Iss ued plates always hav e been , al way s have been, every rider " ith his rid er with hi s tb e lo w ones own number, but the low one s would onl y Yt'3.y only come your way for • services " se rv ic es rendered" to yo ur District. Th ey would rendere d" yom They only who wiUo nly be carried by riders who were "illing to wo rk for the rigbt to wear them, work Ing tbe ri ght because our District IS its clubs, and its cl ubs , bec au s e Distri ct without the clubs we' d have no scramithout cl ubs we'd ha ve w the pre sent it' s the bles. Under Ihe present system U's Ihe club members " ho ge t penalized. members who get pena lized. I realize that there are many sides to the re I rea lize this su bject and like any rule, if it subject rule , it comes into being it would need work to into make it run properly, but the abo ve is prope rly , above the general idea, and we'd like to hear idea. bear it . Here' s cha nce some comments on it. Here's a chance commen ts for discussion eithe r individually or at di s cus s io n either indi vi dually at club meetings before it comes up a t it comes UP at Co mmitt ee Committee meeting. PjJMt~ p~~ 2707 - W. lst Street Santa Ana, Call I. Calif. 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