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Morgan, Moon Move up in Junior 11 Mashburn Moves By Mike Capal1te SOUTIi GATE, Cal., Sept. 5 - Both wi nners In the 100cc and 250cc Junior classes In th e TT program at Trojan Raceway Thursday night enjoyed their last ride as Juniors as they have garnered enough points to move into the Seni or class. In the l OOcc class, Jack Mo rgan (Hodaka) put on a tremendous charge In th e MaIn Event to fini sh ahead of David Ham ( Bridges tone) who Is very close to rnovIng into the Senior class himself. Third place finisher Mark Blackwell (Yamaha) Is showing a lot ot promise and back alter a long absence was fourth place Dan Ney ( Hodaka). of action that wUI be- coming up on Tuesday nights . Actually 1t wUI probably be even more spectacular as th e Class A rules allow the use of t uel and this wU1 give the 250' s a definite Incr ease In horsepower . The 250cc Junior Class In the Short Track was won by Loyal Penn (Bultaco) who Is also maldng good time around the oval and should be one of the top contenders In the Class A as he t1ntshed ahead of sec ond and third place men lrw1n Moon ( Bultaco) and Larry Shoemaker ( Bultaco). Remember th e Trojan schedule: on Tu esday night, 250cc Class A; on Thursday night, lOOcc and 250cc Spo rtsman IT and lOOcc Sportsman Short Track. See you there. (Results on page 20) the gate as Trojan Raceway I s Instituting Class A 250cc racing on the cushion track . The 100's wi ll still run Shor t T rack on Thursday , but the 250' s wi ll run on Tuesday wi th the m inimum engine size being 200cc and the maximum being 25Occ. Out for the fir st - time this year on a very spirited Yamaha DT- 1 was Keith Mas hburn who pr oceeded to prove In the Senior class that he Is the man to beat on anybody -s track as he tought to win th e Senio r Shor t Track MaIn Event with sec ond placet1nisher Gary B:i11ey(Greeves ), but Keith's fantastic slides were more than Gary could contend with as Mashburn gave the crowd a sample ot the kind -Q ~ 0 ~ t.:I :c: c.:: -J C,) ~ C,) AAMT -C C O ROSS Lloyd Qulntard maklne It In the TT. S unday Sept. 15th SEE ALL TH E COURSE FROM SPECTATO R AREA CLOSE TO FREEW and POPULATION . AY SEE THE COURSE ALL TH E W D CHAMPIONS WILL COMORL PETE ON OEC. 1 & 8. SADDLEBACPARK! SAN C LEMENTE J.C.'S G .P. Bultaco ace Jim O' Nea l leads Keith M ashburn throueh tum one at the Trojan TT Main Event. OCT. 6 FOR INFORMATION CALL DON DAY C1(4) 633-8260 , SADDLEBAC PARI I i s freeway-close: Take Newport Freeway. to Chapman Ave. , go East on Chapman 10 santiago Canyon Road, tum rigllt to saddleback Park Road, opposite the fire station. open every day, B a.m. 10 1;30 p.m, SADDLEBACK PAR K OFFERS 100 acres of riding area and race excitement. (Wa t ch th i s space for news of those good th ings that happen at Saddleback Park . Plann ing a n event of you r ow n? Ho ld it a t Saddleback Park. Wr It e V ic Wil s on , Sadd leback P ar k , Box 2455 , O range. Ca lif. 92667. for deta lts.) the Inllel d tum and on to IIrst I cc Sr. leads Ho~ka VanTe~ mow~d Ga~OOBailey TT. Dave~IH:a;m~;I~~~a;n:~F; k ~ ln;~;1:87~)~th ~U~e:h~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (# d ~;n; C;h; e (# ;; The Senior class In the l OOcc IT was again dominated by the seemingl y unbeatable Gary BaI ley ( Van Tech Hodaka) who took the Trophy Dasb win and came back to cop th e win In the Main Event over Paul Wilde ( Yamaha) and Don L eal ( Yam aha). Gary again proved triumphant In the 250cc Senior IT as he pushed hts Ni cholson- sponsored Greeves to tlle checkered tlag to further his record as high point man. The 250cc Junior IT was a little nip and tuck fo r a while tor irwin Moon, who only needed two more points to move him into the Senio r class . As he pushed his Bultaco up into th e l ead, It was evident that he was going to make It and he cr ossed the line ahead of second place man Larry Shoemaker ( Yamaha) and Rober t Millner (Bultaco) . GREAT WESTERN CANADIAN MOTO·CIOSS CHAMPIONSHIP SEPTEMBER Jsf 500 SENIOR CLASS lsf NORM 10PP MAICO 3rd JOHN RICE MAICO Sf' STAN JOHNSON MAICO Wilde Wins The Short Track which I s gaining In popularity was a Paul WUde (Yamaha) win In th e l OOcc Senior class on hts special frame racer with Dan Hazel (Yamaha) t1nish1ng In se cond. In the 100cc Junior Short TracJc, Mark Blackwell (Yamaha) made a very good showing; in tact, 1t really looked like. this was his bag as he took the win over second place man Vincent Graves ( Hoda..ka) while third and tourth places went to Lloyd Qulntard (Yamaha) and Ralph Carpenter (Hodaka) . The entries In the 250cc Short Track events were Intormed that this would be the last Thursday night that the 250's would run as ' starting on Tuesday, September 10, they would be racing on a night of their own and running t or 40% of ~ .... Q:; 1969 IotA MOTO-CROSS SEE THE NEW MAICO AT L.B. 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