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Story and Photos by Blll Harmer
SAN DIEGO, Cal ., Aug. 25 - A warm day
and a hard-packed, fast course greeted
the eager TT aspirants who s igned in for
the Mesa M.C. festivities at South Bay
Speedway (form er ly Mesa). With all the
Dis trict 38 Open Expert hots hoes on
hand, an exciting afternoon of cl ose for mation scrambling was promised . The
Earl Roloff- tuned Triumph ' that poin t
leader AI Finan rides, was still not In
run ning shape and Al was mounted on
Earl' s second string bike, a yell ow Nor ton known as " The Iron Pig ." Myr on
Carter, last year' s point champ, looked
Impressive In practice a s did Trfumphmounted Don Finan and BSA pilot Earl
Barker. Wayne Hosaka, riding Mike
Garrett's BSA Gold Star, who has been
plagued with bad luc k of late was obviously taking It easy in his practice laps
getting the fee l of hi s completely rebuilt
mount after his crash at Tijuana last
week.
In the firs t s eries of motos, Tom
Lively fell off his 450 Honda and the
ambulance had to take him to the hosp ital. He regained consciousness In the
ambulance and as he Is a s ervice man,
r eques ted to be taken to the Balboa Naval
Hospital which Is about 20 miles from the
track. Racing was suspended for the
hour that the em ergency equipment was
away. During the lull, a wheelle contest
was held and the winner was Trtumphmounted Myron Carter. Unfortunately he
damaged his front end during the contest
and was unable to get his bike on the li ne
for the start of the Open Expert hassle.
BSA-mounted Open Expert Wayne Howka (14) passl nc #6 AI Finan (Norton). Followlnc closely
I s Earl Barker (BSA). Riders fin ished 1-2-3.
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When the final moto of the Open Expert
r iders got under way It was evi dent tha t
any one of the three lea ders, Flnana ,
Barker or Hosaka could win top honors
In the class for the day. Finana held the
lead over Barker with Hosaka slightl y
behind. The three toured lap after lap so
close together that they could have played
a hand of poker... As the final lap approached, Barl