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• SUZUKI • COMPLETE PORTING SERVICE FOR ALL BIKES OUR SPECIALTY! ! Tues.· Fri. 9·9 Sat. 9·7 ARTESIA Closed Sun. and Mon. e eyeU aNnR 12539 E. Carson, Artesia, Calli. Tel. 860-1314 NATIONAL MOTOR SUPPLY CO. DISTRIBUTOR FOR Largest stock on West Coast Dealer QUALITY MOTORCYCLE I...iries ACCESSORIES ALSO InYiled IN STOCK /~ rt: fJ ~1--1#{I} PHONE: 213 633-5178 15710 Garfield Avenue, Paramount, California 90723' GO SUPER FAST willi CYCLE CITY OSSA - BENELLI - SUZUKI Complete Machine Shop 2142 Long Beach Boulevard Long Beach - 591-1389 TELL THEM YOU SAl IT 11 CYCLE lEIS With a bundle of rags wrapped around his left foot skidsboe fashion, Mert Lawwill wrestled bis HD Sprint to a win in the first indoor sbort track show at tbe San Francisco Cow Palace. Heavy rains in the bay area may have cut the first-night crowd somewhat, but inside the well·lit arena the riders were eatbusiastic. "it's a little track," ODe said. "You can get around pretty good." Dick Faria of San Pablo. wbo was high point m&D during the sammer short track season at Vallejo, grabbed an early lead in the main event but was unable to bold iL Faria was in the lead on lap three when Gene Romero and Jimmy Odom kissed wheels in the hack turn and went down in a pile of bikes and elbows. Both riders remounted and when attention turned hack to the main race it was Lawwill in front and gaining. Mert kept a close eye on the opposition, glancing ..ell over bis shoulder several limes per lap. Wbat be saw (if be noticed) was a slipping sliding "We involving Faria, Swede Savage. Phil Cancilla and IIatcb Corder. Lawwill spent the last half of the IS-lap race about four bike lengths ahead and was followed across the line by savage, Cancilla and Corder. With experts starUng from the secmd row a number of wbite-f)late riders fOlDld themselves lard pressed to make the main. Riding fast 011 the sliell pa veo ment is devili!!bly tridly and passing is even more 80. With a great deal of mclog experience DU1li lied by the new, unfamiliar surface, neither Dick Mano nor Diell DorTesteyn were in the filial. Gene Romero avoided the nasty rosiness of passing everyone during the race by the simple expedient of nipping by all the other riders right at the start of his heat. With the flag, Romero gunned it from. his inside position on the second row to a neck-andneck position for the lead. After a few hectic seconds of general bustling about in the first turn Romero emerged number one and was never headed. He also took the trophy dash. (Results on page 16) thalr I.athers .Isewhere, lIert Lawwlll steams abead 01 F.la and Corder. SAN FRANCISCO COW PALACE Dick Ibnn (2) _d Paul Bostrolll In I .at rac-....a... make lila mlln. Dick Faril snltclle. tbe Ilid In Irllt tum olllllin IVIIIt lip on_bIIIlnd #130 JIm OdDla Is Gene R Dick Dorre.teJII. With Odom _d Romero bouncing alone on By George Martin WII _otber nltlonal number who dldn'l crl....d two I......... "'own In "B" IIIIln found ••_HOW l1art. toup to o_com_ _ trill. 7lz Bob Sckllly vi•• .rib 23 DIVY Bostrom _d 1521 Lloyd "ouchkln..