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·... ... :. Ch ~ SprodrefsScram"'es Slde W'lnders Lacey a - BY J. K . pi o n s co a, ~ 0> .... ",,' ~ ~ S " o C/) Et ~ <: :5 e..> :... e..> By Ernie Winslow BA KE RSF IELD, cai., Sep t . 14 - The 200cc Experts were defeated once more by Jim Ma..xwell. Maxwell (Bultaco) was tile only Amateur to beat tile Experts In a tull evening or furious scrambles racing. Avery Hensley won tile 350Cc Novice class witll a Montgomery Ward's Mojave. This has been one or the surprise machines or tile season at Sprockets Park. Matchless-mounted Mike Keen took tile measure or a swarm or Open Novice and Amateur riders. Kawasaki Introduced a program tor sportsman riders tbat otters a $10.00 merchandise certificate tor each win. This met witll Gary Sweaney's approval as be picked up hls first victory In tile 250 Novice race. Mike Lane turned In a sterUng pertormance In tile 90cc class, the 250Cc class and tile Open Expert class. Lane is one or the finest alI-around sportsman riders In tile state. Randy Smltll or Ventura was the winner or the 250 Expert class . Sml tll and a bard- r unning Bultaco held of! tile last lap effort or Rick Newby riding a Bultac o spons ored by Red Davis. Carr oll Jackson ( BSA) picked up an easy win In tile Open Expert class. Jackson continued his effort for tile III plate among tile big bikes In District 35. (Results on page 16) Amateur Sbeftel (Trl.) chased Reed In second, making an early bid and tIlen, as tile song once said, "along came Jones ." Out or tittll and Into tbird place In one lap be charged, catcb!ng Sbeffel on the downhill and passing Into second, four laps remaining. But Reed was moving and pressure is sometbing tbis boy doesn 't know exists as be rides Just as bard out front as when cbaslng. So it was Reed, Jones second, and Steady Dave tbird. Had tIlere been more laps it migbt have been d1fterent, bowever, as on tile last circuit Reed's mount m1sf1red and tinalIy ran on ouly one cylinder, but one was enougb to take blm across tile line for tile win._ Williams Wails Jack (159q) Molt JOes under Ton)' Alcker for th. NoYlc. win. P ORTLA ND, ore., Sept. 6 - Bringing to a close a most wonderful season, tile Oregon Sidewinders M .C . at Portland threw tIleir Season Champ ionship on a clear but cb1IIy evening, crowned tour hlgb-polnt riders and entertained the tolks witll some real good raclng. W1t1l tbis, tile last Class C race In tile WashIngton/Oregon area, many out-or-town card bolders came down t or one final go at tile regular Sidewinders buncb. From Tacoma, Wash. came Squire Tomasle, tile PacUic Nortllwest higbpoi nt Novice, and wblle never doing too well here before, he was on hand to challenge Jack Mo tt, current Sidewinder s higb-polnt Novice, who badlostto Tomasle the week before at Castle Rock, Mott, awtuIIy tougb to beat, gave notice or tblngs to co me when be woo his beat, wbIle Tomasle bad to make tile MaIn via tile semi. Mott Makes It The Novice Main tound Mott(BSA), out front In two laps witll tile Wasblngton flasb bottled In the pack, but by the baltway point Tomasie (Bul.) tougbt free and gave chase. He closed on Mott, t1nalIy Back from the National trail to add spice to tile Expert line- up were tile crowd favorites Mark WiII1ams and Ray Carroll. Twice tbis season WiII1ams has left to race National events and each time Nat'l 1197 Dick Jagow has taken over tile MaIn Event win spot, once grabbing two In a row before Williams returned and stopped his streak. Now again Jagow TaC ra ce r Gary (14) DaYis Is off wi th a much fl1lm tearnma'- Tom (93)' ) Wood, whll. Williams awa it s th. tac from 12q. finding b1mse1f a suitably fast groove, but by tIlen It was too late and be trailed Mott to the cJiecker. Prineville's Bill Jackson ( Bul.) finl sbed tnlrd, boldlng ott tile r est at the eager Novices . P erhaps next year Matt can bring back to Oregon tile top ranking Amateur spot tbat tile Beaver State beld In 1967 when Mark Wi ll1ams was our National Amateur Cham pi on. Reed Roars Amateur action was pr ovided by tile "no telling who' ll win" buncb or Lance Margeson, Ike Reed, Dave Sbeffel, Kent Hansen, and traveling down from Kirkland, Wasb., the Northwest's top Amateur for ' 68, Jimmy Jones . Jones won his beat with tbat cool, determined style at his, as did Reed, Jones' arcb rival. To tile MaIn Event tIley went, Reed (Tri.) getting one at his better starts and the lead wbIle Jones ran t1ftll. Sidewinders hlgb-polnt ark (4 q) bad two wins going t or blm whl!n who sbould ambl e Into town again but yo ung Mark WiII1ams . Yes, sir, and Jus t like tbat be socked it to 'em aga1nI Expert MaIn Event time, th e last fo r 1968, and Jagow (Tri.) l ed out at tile f irst corner only to miss a sb1ft and drop all the way to fiftll (later Dick t ell but returned to tile race last and remained tIlere). Tliis left tile door open tor anotller Portland National Number, 14, Triumph- mounted Gary Davis, last year's and tb1s year' s Sidewinders higb-polnt Ex p e r t. Gary grabbed tile lead and began to tear around but alas, ' t was to no avail as WlII1ams, also Trl umph, closed In and snatcbed tile lead comiug out at tile downblJl corner. Mark stretcbed it out to a convinciug win witll Davis second, wbIle T .L. Hoglan (Nor.) trailed bome tbird. A really good season t1nale MaIn Event and well wortb tile admission tor tile nigbt's spectacle. 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