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He held fi rst spot til Alex Jorgens en decided to move out and slide his bike into ti r s t, with Leslie taki ng a third as Jerry Helwig found himself in second. The 100cc Amateur event saw Kenny Rober ts jumping out to tirst from the. li ne and held it from Jerr y Shahan, who couldo't push his machine hard or fast enough, and had to settle for a second. It looked as though Patrick McKee and Donald Simons were tighting for second in the 200cc Novice clas s til the early leader slipped to tifth late in the Maln. • , Jerry Philpott (81E) here taking a new approac h to corner ing as (67H) J im Nichols plays coo l. HIGHEST TRADE-IN 239 N. Anahel m Blvd. Anahel m, Car. Phone (714) 533·1309 BRIDGESTONE Sales-Service B ar ney T illma n' s SP OR T CENTER 6027 WIri Uier BIvd., E. Los Angeles (213) 7 23-3523 "~ B IDGE O E R ST N iii ~GTR THE HOTTEST 35 0 GOING f.r ... um• .' at JOur R.,re,t ...1 •• So. ell: IIcCllI_ Dillr. I... (213) 772-2101 I , " YAMAHA DEALER" SCRAMBLER MOTORCYCLES 1801 W. Burbank Blvd. Burbank, Calli. " 849·5907 or 845-8738 Elt. • 7 GET MORE SHCAS WITH SACHS - THE BOONDOCKER It s Pure SIchs Now available at McLAUGHLIN MOTORS 2422 E. HuntlnllDn Dr. Duarte, Calif. Ph_ (213\ 359-4541 Yamaha and Ray Huff teamed up lor a great show In the 250cc class. Ray snatched IIrst. McKee had his hands full taki ng ti rst fro m a fast-moving second plac e Simons . In the 250cc class Ji m Nichols took the lead ott the line but los t his pla ce and fell to last. Jim Crens haw, who was moving up fast fr om second, moved into first and kept on going. Jim Ferroni , who took runnerup_spot, was another rider who moved away from the pac k but couldn' t make it up to Crenshaw's lead. Huff Puffs The 250cc class was to show a r eal outstanding r ider. He's Ray Hutf, who calmly thundered up on all his competition to fly his one-Iunger Yamaha by the checkered tlag in good form with fr ont wheel noticeably off the gro und. Second RAIN OUT IN' EUREKA B y Tom & Dean Dilling The Far West M! C of Eur eka tried for the second week in a row to pr esent their tirst T.T. Scrambles of the season. Last week we were rained out completely but Looking good •••••••• ••••••• And I ooklng bad! place was taken by Steve Ferroni, who had the lead at the start, but not long. In the 350cc Novice clas s Rick Graves and Joe Brazil fought hard for fir s t place. Joe .had the lead at the star t but Rick made it known that he wasn 't going to settle for anything les s than tl rst. He ran pas t Joe and kept on going to get quite a lead on the re st of the field. Bud Smith led the 500cc Novice class for a few laps tll Bll! Evans decided it was time to move up from thir d, He made the jump and kept on going to get a fi r st in his class. A change of positrons was the idea held in the minds of the 650cc Novice class . They started with Jerry Philpott ' leading through the tirst corn er , but then Ji m Nichols jumped to first. His standing looked shaky as others fought hard for second place, but then fell back. At the end of the ·Main the chec keredtlag went to Nichols first and Jerry PhilPott s econd. Coming off the lin e for the 650 class the or der was Don Stover, first; Ray Holt, second; and Ray Hutt, third. Don held Iris spot in tirs t place, but he was pushe d hard by Ray Hutf (250cc Yamaha), who moved up to second place and stayed there for the rest of the r a ce. The day's races were all good, with the only possible impr ovement being if more riders had found out what a good track Lodi has. (Results on page 16) this time we made it about three-fourths of the way through the program before the skies opened UP. The 250 Novice Trophy dash was the last race reaturtng, four flops , with one r ider going down twl~e in one lap as the traction was pure grease . The heats wer e well organized and ran ott with a touch of professionalis m that Is always appreciated by spectator and r ider alike. Two O lOOcc heats were held and two trophies in each. Ron Matson ran orrand hid fr om his competition in the tirst heat followed a distant second by Jim seeber but good enough for number two gold. Fred Pugh and Don McMorrow crossed the line in that order in the second heat. . The 250 Novice divisIon also had two heats with four trophies. Number one man in the number one heat was Mike Bens on and Larry Howard was second. Second heat had Rob Roy Nell s on followed by Tom Dllling. The Novice 350- 500 racers tried to contend with Dave Reynolds but couldn't do it. This Is getting to be quite a habit with this conver ted mud rider, I might add. Leonard Prince chased Dave for second. The 200 Amateur gr oup was led by Ed Thayer first and Garry Hurst number two. The 350- 0pen race provided the only ambulance appearance of the day. On the sharp turn leaving the main track, Robin Foley was center -p unched while running tirst. The race was black-flagged and after Foley gathered himself together and tigured out where he was, a damage survey was held and showed a swollen clutch hand and a cut on his legs . The race was restarted and it looked like an instant replay might occur each time the two went through the accident scene, but it dido't. It boiled down to two differ ent r iders and two different styles and nothing I n te n tl 0 n a 1, I think. Anyway, Foley finally made it to the checker ed flag firs t. Edgar Frisbee won the only trophy awarded In the 650-0pen Novice heat. The Am.-Exp . 250 bunch ended up with Whitey Marks chased by Geraid Burguist to the trophy gi r l. Billy Law breezed home the winner in the Expert 500. Harvey Cr ews kept up Iris winning ways in the 650 Expert division followed by Ron Bolllng. It was really a shame that the remainder of the program was rained out as plenty of good racing was shaping uP for one of the best crowds we have ever had. I took a small survey of the riders' opinions of the setup. Most reallze the potential of the brand new facll!ties and are pleased. The complaints, if you want to call them that , were small things that can easily be changed - mostly concerning the course. One 650 rider went home after cr ashing into the wall during prac- _ tice. I know one 250 Novic e rider that has been into the wall three times in the same place. (Me.) But that is just sheer stupidity ••••• Beginning this week, owner-builder Bob Br itt will begin the dust r etardant treatment of the race cour s e and the other minor items will be changed also to make the track even better than it is . So, everyone refrain from doing the rain dance and we'll see you Sunday, June 21. "

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