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LIJNG BEAGN _I0Il saturday's taste of Indoor .ctlon will b... to lasl • IODC tI..... at lust ..III n.d 1I0v_blll' when lIM aaw starts. ., "One. more Inlo lire brucb, de.r trtends," as • 250 buI bums Into lum on•• Above llike (46Z) V.m and Buteb (921) Cord. balli. for lb. spot. Below: R.cers CDIII. from tar and nur to bid lor lIM Indoor 1111.. Gen. (20) Rotaero look lb. 100cc ebn•• Sacramento's Butch Corder stonaed and roared around the Long Beach Areoa in tile first IDDnal indoor state championship short track race last Saturday night. 'That is, he roared the entire evening - until tile final two laps of tile main evenL The rapid racer was the whole show in the 250cc class until the eugine quit with only two short rounds remaiRing in the extended 20 lap tide race. Prior to that time. Corder had won everything but the door prizes that were given away during intermission. The heat race. semi-main event and the all important trophy dash went to the only rider to win two main events during the indoor winter season. Corder took the lead immediately. if not sooner, as the ten fastest riders, one novice. two amateurs. and seven experts. shot off the line. Corder had a lDOre than sizeable lead when the engine quit and he coasted to the pits. He failed in his bid for his tptrd straight win but took home the overall point championship. He also won the san Francisco Cow Palace point chase to become the world's first double indoor king. After Corder dropped out Dud Perkin's pair of northern aces, Dick Mann and Mert Lawwill weat to work and finished first and third with tile So.th's Clyde Litcb mDDing in second to break up the HarleyDavidson combo of national champions from San Francisco. Mann finished second in the trophy nash to Corder and. coupled with his stlUe final indoor win. he moved to second in the final standings with Lawwill finishing in third. It was a 1-2-3-4 point standing finish for the north with Jim Odom. who did not make the main this week. taking fourth place in final standings. Litch moved up in the last chase to break the string and finish 5th in point. The slamming. sliding action found 170 entries on hand for the popular show that gave the fans 27 events in less than three hours time. In 250cc T . , dasb ItaadJ sa, _kes off IIrst on IIPtwelPt v...... 125cc. Over iJl the 100ce class for the little jobs the action was just as body CODtestecl with oDe time previous wiDer Gene Romero comiag lip to score his secoDd win of tile aeetiag ad take the 'point tide alODg with iL GeDe' 8 HODda was prepared by the imma ate slaop facilities of Skip Fordyce in Riverside. Elliott SChultz bested two novice riders and one amateur