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laft beeD up to their respectiYe dlstr1blItors ~ the S)QI8Oring club to cut
tbroIIgb the fog and clear it llP. rtae llP
to the AlIA and the Dlrtdlcgers and
dIstr1ct 37 to cle8n llP the mess OIl the
gnctlOll.
How about giving a break to the poor
slob wbo pays the tarttr all ye8r long?
Somebody at least owes 115 an exp1ana-
BY CHUCK CLAYTOf\J
THE RACE THAT WAS AID THE OlE THAT WASII'T
Last weekend a record crowd of motorcycle fans witnessed one of tile
remaining spectacles of racing. The nrtDlggers Motorcycle Club's Grand
(actually a long scrambles) almost evolved trom a local, District 37 competition
into an international status event.
Only almost. For tile su international riders wbo came anel gave us au be
America a new standard of racing excellence to strive for, may not ever
at least not to Hopetown.
The DlrtDlggers may not be the hardest American club to deal witll, but they
bave got to rank among five or six flnal1sts. A Motorcycle club generally spreads its
responsibility among its members so th1nlY that, in case of a lawsuit or otller corporate unpleasantness, nobody bas to take the blame. Since the clubs mainly exist to
ride for fun and put on races, tile organization is informai and no one person, even
tile president, bas the power to commit the club to any agreement witllout the consent
of the members. So when the DirtDlggers agreed to pay the international riders
ell:pense money for coming to Hopetown and later reneged, on the reasonable premise
that they would probably win all tile prize money anyway, there was nobod)' to sue.
At that point Mr. Edison Dye, the U.S. Husqvarna Distributor wbo bas all
international riders under contract here, decided to put on a race the same weeIlellll
in the San Diego area, and turn all the proceeds over to the boys. That's free enterprise and tile American Way. Wes cooley, the newly-elected president of MlCUS
(Motorcycle International Competition in the U.S.• the F.l.M. governing bo
