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to come in to the pits in the lead. At this
point, Gaetz and Mike Pa trick we r e having at it for tha t second spo t, and Gary
Cole, #5x on a 250 Husky was coming on
s trong, as was Bill Hmmer, Amateur
#34 on a Triumph.
Out on the second loop thi ngs started
getting rough, especially the s teep, r oc ky
hill s. Gae tz, who was now r unning third,
dropped his bi ke in a clo ud of dus t on
the hill and was so tired tha t he couldn' t
pick it up. He let seven riders pass him
befo re he could get going again (In the
pits, much later, we heard him say,
" f'm going to give up s moking or bike sI ca n't do both.") Not long after thi s
hill , wild Billy Hammer did a bad thing
and bent his front for ks up, but was able
to continue.
Coming into the fini s h, Bergquist was
the winner on t1i 250 Bultaco. Mike
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Patrick, fresh fr om two wins in a row,
pull ed In second taking first In the open
class . Gary Cole, #5x, moved up to
thi r d, Al Baker, #13 was fourth, Je ff
Fos te r , #16 on a Triumph was fifth, and
Bill Hammer, #34 , rode his bent- up
Triumph In for sixth sp ot and fi rs t
Amateur . It looks like the first Novice
In was Tom Muto, #71x on a '250cc
machine , taking fifteenth over al l.
In the pits after the race, Danny
Kline , #7x, see med to sum up the feelings of the r iders when he said, " That
was a fast, choppy, ba m-bam cour s e
with too man y hoopty- doos."
An honorable men tion sh ould go to
Ray Alexander, #144x , a Novice on a
Bultaco. We unde rstand tha t he dueled
'with Dinny Kline for the last loop and
was r eally making it- ending up twentyseventh, just beh ind Kline .
Trail Bikes
The trail bikes got off to a good start
afte r the big bores , with Dean Gold s mith , Amat eur #39 on a Zundapp, leadIng It at the s mo ke bomb . Wes Anderson
Jr., #4, Jac k ~rgan , #1, and Frank
Morgan , #6, :ilIon Hodakas, wer e hot
on hi s trall .
Goldsmith ran Into a smal l me chan ical
pr oblem whic h only sl owed hi m down
te mporarily , but long enoug h to give
Jack Morgan the lead , whic h he held
an the way to the finish. Frank Morgan
was s ec ond an d Wes Anderson Jr. was
third.
Golds mith was able to get going good
again and in to take four th sp ot and fi r s t
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