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~ .., ~ Mashburn Makes it 7 for 8 at Ascot Photos by Dennis Greene GARDENA, c at., Oct. 18 - Novice Kei th Mashburn was finally stopped - but only once, and I n a heat race - In the weekly F riday night 250cc A MA shor t track events. Mashburn was out of th e running in th e qualification heat r ace won by Don Castro on a Suzuki. But he came back for three wins In the regulation heat, Trophy Dash and Main Event to pick uP something over $200 for the second week in a row. He and his Yamaha now have seven for eight at Ascot. Again, as last week , Novices won more r ace s than Expe r ts , 9 to 7. Amateurs failed t o win a single event . Other Novices suc h as Dave A ldana, on Suzuki, T erry Donaher Yamaha, and Randy Smith, SuzukI's joined Mashburn to gi v e the Experts another r ough night of racing. Only th ree white plate riders qualified for th e ten rider ten-lap feature tha t saw Mashburn take the lead off the starting line and hold to all the way. Expe r t Dal1as Baker finished second. The other Novices mentioned finished 3, 4 and 5. Novice Castro was a solid second most of th e way until his engine qui t, drop- . ping him out of the race. Experts Cai Rayborn, Ji m McMurren and Sid Carlson failed to show up this week. Dan Haaby , Eddie Mulder and Jack O'Brien were among the seasoned riders on hand, but none made It to th e nnat, Mark Brelsford, on the Mert Lawwill H-D, was the oniy Amateur to make I t to the Main Event. Two m or e F riday nights of short track racing r emain for th i s season at Ascot . The last night wi ll be a half mile event the 1968 Sta te Championship . And Exper ts and A m ateurs will be riding the big bikes I n separate classes . The f inal TT of the season at Ascot , also a state championship event, wi ll run the first Saturday ni ght In November . Skip Van Leeuwen holds a one point l ead over Dusty Coppage . Dusty upset Skip f or th e state ti tle last year in the only loss In '6 7 for the Dutchman . (Results on page 16) Dall as Baker (58) was the only Expert to finish In the top five . Dale Gray (3D) and JellY Henderson try t o break up thl s dueL story and Photo by Dale McKinnon LINCOLN, cat., Oct. 13 - All good things mu st come to an end and so It was with the Hungry Hollow scrambles. It seems every time a motorcycle club finds a good place to hav e a race, someone does their best to get the m kicked off the property. So after more tha n a year th e local City Council won. Their claim Is too m uch noise. (No house wi th i n a mile of th e place and the land that' s worthless f or anything but motorcycles .) A hundred fo r ty-five r i ders sho wed up to bi d a fo nd far ewell to th e track. As usual the Sierra M.C. put on an excellent race. . The 250 Novice Main proved to be the most interesting as I t took them three times to get It started. Breen Hoffman got off the line first wi th Ken Smith close and a real good battle f or third between Darrell Walthamp and Perry McLain. Two riders went down hard - so first r estar t . On the next try one rider f11pped and one killed his machine. Another restart. ThIs time L . Jerry Langseth took the lead with Sene Farthing right on his tall, Allen Chuck went down trying to pass. Richard Jones and L eeRoy Jackson rode peg to peg for second several laps then Sene Farthing slipped in to take second. ThIs 250 bunch sure proved to be one of the wildest seen In a long time. The females got to try their luck the first time In quite awhile. Sue Childress had It all sewed up until the last lap when she boo- booed. Debbi e Jackllne slipped by to take a narrow win. Ginger Burrola pushed th em all the way. Bad Tangle Th e fir s t restart was In th e 100 Novice Main wi th Jerry L ee Willis out in front . Joseph Hall and John Cave got tangled up down the strai ght and they hauled Joseph ' s bike away. It was r eally broke n UP. John Hargis took the l ead on the lIe xt restart and Willis could do no better than seco nd no matter how he tried. John Green to ok the win I n the 200 Novice M ai n after fo llowing Gary Kun sman around seve r al laps . To m Lezz and Bill Strange had a ni p and tuck bat tle for sec ond wi th T om c omi ng out on top. Sparky Pinola was uP there f or a while but fe ll back to fourth . He' s doing better with his new bike. in the 200 Am-EX. Main Duan e Perry got off the line first but It was Jerry Tyl er on t op out of the fir st turn. Kenny Robe rts sto l e second. He tri ed r epeatedl y to take th e lead but Duane was too much for him. Finally he fell and two riders got by, so he f ini shed fourth. Don Simons and Carl Yerbyhadaring-a-dlng battle for third with Car l out on top, Steve Young was back to his w1nn1ng ways In the 350-500 A m . Main. He had a little trouble with Jerry Bowers who stayed on his tail waiting f or the mistake that didn't come . The rest of the riders paraded around two by two for most of the whole race , kinda unusual. Ray Huff came all the way fr om Mo desto to cop the Open Class win, his first appearance uP here since he got his black No. 6. Hungr;)' Hollow Results Next Week sl Ade lanto TT Sc rambles Oc t. 6, 1968 100c c Nov. Class lstKIRK TRAVI S- BRIDGESTONE E ls ino re T T Scrambles Oc t. 5, 1968 100cc Nov. C lass 1st J, FREIS - BRIDGESTONE 2nd R. KEMP - BRIDGESTONE El sinore TT Scr amble's Oc t. 12, 1968 100cc Nov. Cl ass lst J. FREIS - BRIDGESTONE RON TOB WINS EY 250 Amateur Class - Chowchilla Scrambles September 28, 1968 VISIT THEBR IDGEST ONEEXHIBIT AT TH EMOTORCYCLE &ACCESSORY TRAD ESHOW ANAHE CONVE IM NTION CENTE - NOV. 13-14-15 R fOR THE NAME Of YOUR NEARE DEALER ST SO. C McCULLOCH DIST. INC. (213) 772 -2108 AL. NO. CAL. COAST McCULLOCH (41 UN 3-5520 5) ,-