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LACHER DOES THE DEED AGAIN, LEAPS TO VICTORY NUMBER TEN! #37 Mel ueber (H-D) receives Whit., Lyons' checkered flaC for vlclory over #441 DeWayne Keeler ( BSA) In closely-conlended T rophy Dash. Mel ..... 1 on 10 10lh slrallbl Asco l feature By carol Sims Photos by Dennis Greene GARDENA, Cal., Aug. 2 - After winning his heat race and the Trophy Dash. Harley-Davidson mounted Mel Lacher powered to Expert Main Event victory at Ascot Park Friday night - wire to wire. Sound familial? It mould; Mighty Mel now has a fantastic record of ten straight features to his credit and a sizable lead in the season's point standings. . "n. way to the feature through the semi, winding uP s1xth ; Bruce Holland (Triumph) and Paul Conserriere (Royal Enfield) rounded out the rapid field. . Rockwood Roars To Amateur Win Ama teur point leader Tom Rockwood pleased the crowd with another comefrom-behind performance In the I e-lap yellow-plate f1nal. Slart1ng In the back row after winning the semi , Rockwood cut a steady, beads- uP path through the pacJc to take over firs t place from B111 Cody (H- D) ~ lap five. Auteur lIeat race actlaa finds #21y Don H.IU (HoD) leadlo, #571 John u r _ (TrlUDIph), #37y he. Anderson (Trllllllph), #lOy Jim Rice (BSA), #lI r Ron Lastra (RoE.) and #3lq Jack Wilkinson (Honda). H.IIS _n heat, . t 2ad to TOlII Rock_ad 10 final. BSA rider Dewayne Keeter didn'tlare so well. After setting tile fastest heat race time and taklng second In an extremely barcl-fougbt Dulb. Keeter-runnerup to Lacher In points - suffered his first mechanical faUure of the yearwben his mac!l1ne eJlPired at tile start of tile Main. The rest of the field stormed off, Lacher In the lead. Rlgllt beh1Ddh1m until lap 11ve was Ron Kruseman (BSA), buslly hold1Dlr back barcl-c:barg1ng Cbuck Jones and Sborty 5eaboll1"lle, also 011 Beezers. As Seabourne and Jones llatued it out, witll first one and tIleD the otber forging ahead, they botll s_ptbyKruseman, wbo ma1nta1necI fourth IIDtI.l unl0ading wilhout Injury on tile 8Ih circuit. By this time Jones had broteD loose from his competition and set out towbltt18 Lacher's 8-1eagth adnntage. Lap by lap be narrowed the gap as a good dlg-tIght took place between SeabourDe, Phll Todd ( BSA) and Ralph White (BSA) for the sbow spot. Cody had replaced early leader Don Harms, also H-D, two laps earlier but slid down and out of tile running on the 7th circuit. As Rockwood poured the coals to the Joe Dudek Triumph, Harms Zig-zaeged his way from second to fourth and back to second again, flnlsbtng ahead of Dlve Smith (Triumph), wbo had also turned In an aggressive ride. Runntngnext-lo-last on lap one, Dlve grabbed thtrd place from Geezer Emick (BSA) witll two rolD1ds to go, and held firm the rest of the way. JIm Rice moved uP to 5thabead of fello1r BSA rider Reg Cbosney and Texan Bentley Hardwick. a first- time s tarter on the Ascot halt-mile. Mashbum Mames Foe Not toosurprts1ngly, Yamaba-mounted Keitll Mashhml racked uP anolher flaglo-flag MaIn Event win In tile Novice department, stretch1Dg his point lead over D1Lve Stroman (H-O), wbo fln1sbed 5th. and taklng borne the Cycle Ne"WS at Sea Breeze -Cooled S0 LEB CK PRK! Orange County's Freeway-Close Motor Playground Ride the' ilight Special ...5 to 7:30 p.m. daily, only S admission. 1 See Saddleback Park's t t New MI..cms e....se New USJ e.....ce Refresllllel1 s1I s PiCRic ams SADDLEIACI PAil Is freeway-close: Take Newport FreewaJ to Chapmill Ave' r go East H Chapman to saatlago Canyon Road, tIII'II right to saddlebaclc Park Road, opposite fbe fire station. SADDLEIACI PAil Is open every day, B a.m. to 1:30 p.m. SADDLfIACI PAil Special Erenls: Four fastest Novlc.. lOt off the line lor OIlee-a-mantll lI"n-plale Trophy Dash. Pole man #101 Keltll Mashburn (Yamalla) look the win and tile Cycre News trophy ahead of #201 Terry Donaher (Yamalla) and #124 Dave Hansen (Kawasaki). #102 Don Castro (KawasakI) spilled but came back for the MalII. trophy for vi cto ry In the monthly greenOn the 13th go-around Phll moved plate Trophy DI.sh as well. ahead of Sborty and Ralph, but even on Randy Smith (Suzuki) got by Terry the last lap their ftnts h!ng posi tions Donaher (Yamaha) for second In the were In doubt. And Jones closed strongly tinal, but Mashburn was long gone - by on Lacher toward the end._though not nearly a full straightawayI Donaher hung soon enough. onto third despite all Don Dudek (YamaFollowing Mel and Chuck tothecheckha) could do, and Stroman held off er were Todd, 5eabourne and White , all Suzuki-mounted Bob Fulton, who came of whom had made tile Main tile bard way, fr om last place to sixth before he ran transferring from tile EJEPert semi. A out of laps. surprise starter, BSA-mounted National Number 2 Dick Maim, alSo Worked hiS:.:• : ;{Results on ~ .16) . ' ..,. ." August 18 - ACA Moto-Cross points race. August 24 - sammy Miller Trials School. August 25 - sammy Miller Trials. september B- First National Mini-Bike Ch piOllsltlps. (Wat ch thi s space for news of those good thi ngs that happen at Saddleback Park. Planni ng an event of your own? Hold i t at Saddleback Park. Writ e Vi c Wils on. Saddleback Park. Box 2455, Orange, Cal if. 92667. for detail s.)