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The day dIP.wned brlgbt and clear for tile time tr1als at Calban, Colorado but when It came time fo r tile races tile sun bad ducked behind a cloud. Sonny Anderson, President of tile Dusters , offlclated and all races were run mote-cross except tile zsocc-s, ThIs class was run In heats. The last eventof the day was something special for tile Calhan TT Scrambles, a 10-lap halfmUe race. ThIs special half-mile event I s r un annually on Me morlaJ Diy. Contestants are timed for position and tile top eleven complete. There wer e to be only ten but the nin th, tenth, and e1eventll places were tied In tIleir time. The only woman entrant of tae day was Jeanne Judson f r om tile Boulder Ri dgerunners MC and she raced In tile lOOCc Class B. In tile l OOcc Class B Larry Pipper t and Delbert Armano and Dlrrel Harsh battled back and fortll for first place wltIl Larry Lippert comi ng out on top, Tim Richards won first place in tile 100cc DUSTERS DRAW 00 <.0 O'l - MOTO-CROSSERS AT CALHAN story and Photos 1>3' Beverly Dickerson Nice weatller does not arrive In tile Pikes Peak region as it does In otller parts of tile country; no, here it falls on US like a warm blanket. That's what it did Thursday, May 30. MemorlaJ Diy. i ( Resul ts Last Week) Spied Richards, coming around thl lu rn In beautiful shape, leads the final Calhan, Colora do TT Scrambles Iven t of the day by half a lap. ~~i';Ef~~~:~~~·4· ~ o' TOUR Class A . Bob Neumeister on his Bultaco won tile 175cc Class In a walkaway, takIng all three races. Larry WhIte on his Bultaco did tile same thing In tile 25Dcc Class B, sweepin g all tIlree races . In tile 250 A Main Leon Bechard won one race and Speed Richards won tile otller. In tile 500 Class Speed Richards came in first by winning two races. By tile way it was Speed's son, Ti m tile youngest entrant , who won first In the 100 Class A. Better watch out , Speed, you ' re raising your own competitlonl In tile Open B Class Stan Adams took firs t agaio which I s gett i ng to be a habit wl tIl him. He has almost classed hl mseU out of tile B Class competition. In tile last event of tile day Speed Richards cam e from fifth position to take tile lead' on til e third lap. In this event Nick Miller came In second and Mike Willets third. EUROPE AIR FARE, HOTELS, MEALS FOR FREE AND S1GHT.SEEING . The tours leaving July 29 ... W the purchase 01 1~NORTON, A.J.S, Sept . 14 will visit Holland, ith a new motorcycle ~ MATCHLESS, BMW Germany, Aus tria, Switz er lan d, TRIUMPH or BSA Italy. Spai n, FrancI , England, •. Stan Ada ms shows P hil La tham and Hal'l')' T urner the way In a dusty draetD the finish IInl durIng · B· cia .. rael. 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ADJU STABLE FORK CRO WN made to fit all motorcy cles and all larks P ATENT PEN DING 5046 Clamvi ew a, Expert ·A· Main winner Sonny Burres (69) charges Into the lead followed by Mark Williams (4q), Gary Davis (14), Bob Fuller (38w) and on thl outside Jimmy Smith (19q)• After two straight weeks of rain-outs, witll clouds overhead silll threatening, tile Oregon Sidewinders M.C. once again r esumed tIleir weekly F r l day nlgh t races June 7, at Portland, Or egon. National num ber 69, Expert Sonny Burres, and first year Expert M ark WUHam s, 4Q, put on tile real show of tile Sto ry bS Ja y K. La cey Photos by Frank Cl ay SPECI FY M , MOD EL& FORKS AKE When Ordering D ealer - Dist. lnquiries Inviteo Baldwi n Park, Cal if. (213) 962- 43 19 Sheffel Sails Triumph - Bultaco - Yamaha SALES & SERVICE QUALITY PARTS & ACCESSORIES RA CIN G EQUIPMENT 'lie Accept (21 390-3406 3) ::~::r~~I:r~ed 1 3341 W WASHING . TON BLVD. (L.A. 66) 3 Blks. East of Lincoln BlVd, night, battling f ender to fender right down to tile finish. Burres put tile hole-shot on everyone ~d jumped In to tile l ead but youn,g Williams wanted to duplicate his Trophy Dash win and chased Burres tile entire ten laps waiting fo r tile mistake that never came. A t one point, on tile up-hill sweeper, W1lllams inchedpastbut was off the groove and those little extra poni es Sonny has hidden away cam e out and did their st uff, thus Burres hel d his lead. Dave Sheffel , Amateur Trophy Dash winne r and current high point rider, accepts his trophy at Po rtland, Ore. eve nL Amateur Dive Sheffel won tile Trophy Dash and hi s A Mai n wltlla wlre-to-wire romp stretching his lead I n tile point standings. Ike Reed copped a well-deserved second, having switched to Suzuki and this being tile bike's second time out, while 10 and behold, Bill Manley brought home third on tile only HarleyDavidson we've seen out here this year . Novice AI Brackenburg, who I sn' t ranked In tile point standings as yet, set fire to his class, winning tile Dash and A Main, both by a wide margin. Two former class winners here, L en Miller and Bill Cook, tangled and unlodaded on tile hillside while deciding who would be runnerup to Brackenbury, and this letJac~ Mott and Charlie Sheffel In f or second and third. Mo tt was last yea r ' s 175cc Cham pion here and shows gr eat promi se as a Novice though his mount could use anotller pony or two . Time wi ll teli i n this class as we pr ogress further Into tile seaso n. (Resul ts on page 20) •