Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

, 0----------- .... liott Sdmltz b84 at it for tc.r !aIa.':" tile crowd on tbeir I'eet, reaJq cIleertIIc · It up! ADd. at Ibe ead ~ theftrstlap. Bateley b84 dr'qlped tram biB pole s-lticlD start. all the way bKk to third as they :. • Go . ..; Cb "'e " S By JolIn A. Grout Photos by Dennis Greene ~ '" PACOIMA, cal.. Aug. 10 - The class speedway machines. alongwUhflfty '"' at the best riders in tile COtmtry. again ~ put in their weekly lock-sllde. snap and bil go s how last saturday n1gbt a t Whiteman ~ stadium. And what a sbow they ga..e us..., with the various track recOl'ds being broken DO less tbaDten(CQUDt 'em) times. Now. I don't know what Bob Gregg and Dude Criswell are doing-to and for their raclDg strtp, but, wbUever It Is. It certa1aly seems to be agreeing with the racing btmcb - the guys who bave to go out there every week and put on tile r 1gbt kind at show for the payIng spectators; because the weekly rooster-ta11s wer e sailing at least another te n feet higber than tIley were the week before. And Don Hawley. Mr. Speedway , wasn't even there••• 'The whoop-de-do got off the ground like a skyrocket. when tile third man to take to tile track for the qualifYing session, John Hateley of Burbank, proved to tile crowd at 3800 race-goers that a JAP speedway machine Is stU1 the cycle to be reckoned with. Because young Hateley. proceeding in b1s beant1fu1 sliding style, il:1cked the deY11 out at the one-lap r ecor d wilich waspreviously be1d byEddle Mulder, Sammy Tanner and JacIc O' Brien . And any time you can wrench a track mark a->, tram these riders, you' ve made tile s cene ! John's time was an astotmd1ng 14.03. ~ "A" G D"aJ118 K. .. . FrldaJ . llIIt Ascot wI..er. IDoIl ~I s n rst rIde .. a spncIwaj' 1Iac11 I. e Satllrday atW1lI _ _. I....ed lin'" enjayed lL Bruce Haserot qua lified for "A' Main Even t, dl splayed super-slllly style In IIolnl so. Twenty Heat Races With tile qual.Itying attempts in the books. tile fastest sixteen riders beaded out to the stari1ng line. four a t a time. each man expecting to ride five d1fferent beat races on a European Championship point system. And what a thorough rouser that fi r st beat race was! John Hateley. Sammy Tanner. Shorty Seabourne and El- r ;;st.."C' c.. 'O"~,, de.l.pm_1 came at! the second turn. This prorided the opeaing that Ta.rmer bad been waiting for. as the Flea drove Into a clear edge which be be1d all the ->' to tile t1n1sb. It was run in track record time (58. 03) and it wasn·t to be beaten again for the rest of the evening. 'The second beat saw tile fourth fastest qualtfier. and the racer currently bold1ng down third in the point standlngs. Bruce Haserot , as be got the jump off the line and led Johnny" Witeel1e " Carter throngb eig1lt turns to win a t1g1lt one in 58.09. In the third beat at the evening. It brought tile racers to the starting line who bad the 9th through 12th fastest qualifying times. Sonny . Nutter, Jack 0' Brien. tile current point leader. and two other men who can really put the pressure 00: Stu Morley and Chuck Jones. 'The flag dropped, and Nutter went sailIng into the firs t turn with somewhat of a lead. But, don 't forget 0 ' Brien, because a point leader doesn·t like to be beaded by anyonel And, coming off the east turn. Jack saw an opening, cranked his wick to the stop and pulled the plug on the whole affair. It was O'Brien in 58.09. And, how about tile fourth beat? 'Ibis brought to the line the 13th - 16th fast r ider s : Rick Woods, Lee stumpennaus, De Wayne ••Skeeter" Keeter. and tile sllding person, Steve Scott - back for so~e mor e of it, after his injury just last week. In this l-ac e, Keeter got an early lead. only to watch Stum pe nba us and Woods from tile back view at the finisb line. In the fifth beat, Haserot again went wire to wire; but I!e bad a cbor e cut out for him, when be bad to bang real tight in beat1ng out Scott - who was completely off tile track at tile fin1s b. Running third in thIs beat was Morley. 'The sixth beat saw young Sbamrock Jon 'Thomas take the win, after Tanner's bike bad stopped rtmnlng. Scott Scoots Twa lap ClIII . .cIers - last .ek's "A' lIIaln victor Joba Carur.and tbls . .ek·s first place maa. Jack O'Brl•• But .listen, don't let's go through a rtmdown at the entire twenty beat, point racea.., Rather. let's bead to one other major higbllgbt at the evening; the ding donger at a battle that shaped up in the nrc lie II, co-around at the eveuiIIg. Becaue 8tIlge Scott. _ tboagb dmDga btt ~ UmplDg arOUlld tile p« area, came out to c:aaliest the l!I'l!Ilt with DCIII8 other tIsl CImck ~. JoD 'I'bomIul and stege BILst.._ ADd. do you lb1nIt you'Ve seen & race before tb1s? Tell it to the 3800 people - who were all staDdIng in one at the biggest displays at enflms1a S'll that thIs writer bas ever seen. Jones took an immediate lead of! the fIrs t corner. and be beld that leadallthe way .t11 the final turn at the final lap. And tIlen Scott, after getting into that turn all crossed up , somehow got himself straightenedaround, managed to dive underneath Jones. and the drag race to the checker was pben om enall Scotton the 1ns1de and Jones 011 the outs1de. And Scott Illl1led the otller racer by a quarter-ata-wbee1-length! 'The crowd wouldn't quiet down for a full five minutes! 'Then. we got to the Trophy Olsb, possibly an ant1cllmax of the previous race. 'Ibis event' brougbt out the four fastest beat times at the night: Tanner, O' Brien. Scbultz and Bruce Haserot. Schultz cannon-balled into a lead, which be maintained over 0' Brien all the way to the final line _ where be was very properly rewarded with a victory Idss from the Trophy Girl, lovely Carla Wiley at Hollywood. Three Big Ones 'Then, we reached the A, B, and C Main Events which were being run for a .total purse at $1455.00. In the " c" event , Jim Doron was strangling the whole field unt11 be got out at shape on the final lap, allowing Stu Morley to ge t arotmd bfm and gain the win. 'The ••B" Main went to Sonny Nutter. closely pursued by both Jim 'Ibomas and Chuck Jones. In the " A" Main Event. It was Jack 0 ' Brien all the way . to take the measure at Schultz. Tanner and Haserot. Some final reflections: We missed the presence of the sensational Jimmy Nicholson and hope be will be back with us next week._. Sorry to see big Bob IlBiley. National Number 33. come up with a flat tire which prevented him from making the program._. 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Our long awaited Hunter-Rice grudge was nearly a disaster SlLturday nightand left us muttering the quote about " the best laid plans at mice and men._" F eature thIs. Here's ODe at tile biggest crowds Perris bas bad for a nigbt race. Hunter and Rice as a special privilege bave parked their trucks in the pit area. everyooe is asking " Witen' s itgonnabe?" and up comes practice. Hunter ll!1ura11y goes out in the last one for big bores only and slid out in the downhill section; bere comes Fred Edwards waWng aIong and plows into Jim doing considerable remodel1ng to the Goldie. Scratch Hunter. Well, after listening to Jim and John chip at eacb other for weeks now we were bard put to keep our cool and were determined to bave a race of some kind so as not to disappoint that crowd. We suggest to Hunter , " Hey . maybe we can borrow bikes and you can still race. How about even 100's,then you'd bothbavethe same advantage." Here we can't print what Hunter says aboutlOO's. It' s a wellknown fact he bates " kiddie bikes ." " How about 250's then?" " Nol" says •••••••••• H A R L E V- DAVIDSO N OJ OVer to John Rice with tile same question but John isn't too keen until we say, "Well. we suggesteil l00's because It would even you both out but maybe Jim's afraid you'll beat bim on a strange bike." That did it! John loped over to Jim and within a few minutes the match was on again. Two even little 60 Yamabas were loaned and at the right time of! they went with yours truly being given the bonor to start and referee. Only trouble .ts we got to laughing so bard after we finally got them off and rtmnlng (both 011 back row. band on helmets) that we're stU1 sore. Il you weren·t there justImaglne those two on Yamaha 60's. 'Those poor li~ bikes will probabiy never be tile same again. You could bear missed shifts all arotmd the circuitl one time John R. , came arotmd the turn onto the straight sllding. hit a rut and as an y big bike r ider knows be applied the power to pull him out but there weren't none, baby! So John went howling off the course, missed the jump completely and sbot down into the infield to catch up to Hunter who bad built up a little lead by then. John won it by maybe two bike lengths and they are going to bave at It again on their big bikes this coming saturday, but we betit won't be as much fun as this past one wasl Stein Sails Remember Jimmy Stein, the youngs ter who always went so well on a Husky in scrambles and moto-cross? He made the Perris scene too . fresb back from two months at the C- Z factory in Prague. C- Z took him on for training as team rider paying his expenses wb1le there and It sounds like Jim really bad a time. His tralning consisted of getting up at six a.m ., rUlU1ing tile mUe to tile factory where be would ride for several bours on one at the courses outside the factory limits. 'Then would come several hours of working on the bikes in tile shop so every nut and bolt was learned. He couldn't speak bigblj enough at bow kind tile big names were to him. Roger De Coster taught him the art at turning in' the air wbUe jumping and they took thIs young American UDder their wing to show him the ropes. J1nl's proudest moment came when before a crowd at 85.000 people be wa1kedoutbeb1nd the American flag wb1le the band played the Star Spangled Banner. says Jim. " I was so proud I could bave burst and I don·t think I could bave fallen off if I tried. I was out there riding for America!" He rode f1ve race wbUe there and we asked bow be did. " Well, I didn't think I did too well but I did stay up for over ball an hour a couple at times with the rest at the team but I did well enougb that they will bring me back next year for the World Championship rounds." We say, you did very well indeed Jim! 'The fact that C- Z atfered you such a nice contract proves It. 'They don't mess around and Jim didn't mess arotmd saturday night either. On a bike that be and Walt Axthelm put together from spares in Walt's s bop be did in the 250 class, three motos in a row, but It won't be long before he'll be out on his new bike in the 500 class. METRI C TAPS & 01 ES SINGLE PIECES OR COMPLETE SETS ALL SI ZES IN STOCK Long Beach SPECI ALISTS IN M ETRICTO OLS SEND $1.00 FOR CATALOGS 223 W. CAM INO REAL , MONROVIA , CALIF. 91016 - WRIT E 213-447-8342

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