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Boaz, Then Miller - Gabbert Stucle With Third By Matt Glover PHOENIX, Arizona, Jan. 26th - Jupiter P1uvius rained and showered for five straight days and then Sunday morning old Sol came forth with shirt sleeve weather ~. Oh boy, the Blue Wash scrambles are onl 1b1s is a 10 mile course with start/ finish in a long, fiat wash, down through narrow, sandy arroyos, and up over stony trails lined with cactus of various prickly varieties. There are two check ~ Sleek '1'1111'11' cUltamlzlnl or ricin•• low rldln. position ImproYe. hind lin•. Thick 101m pld· dlnl with Unlverlll mount· In. ltud•. Ind keeps you ....In,'_r. A muslltlr compelllJon. ~ SHORT STROKE l'lcors. SADDlEtourlnr. BACS _ _ Itlr 101· In. boob, or pock"" I picnic lunch for two, the klal "ClI1')"III" _ 01 _ct!. bID vinyl. Bop ..e both &tutdJ IIId pillbl. Iftd remsln out tho _ lor. V GRIPS be,.', 0' ;:;:Nort. . HERE /I your hindi pI IWOIIJ or Ilred When you ride. It'l the llull 01 th•• rips. 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Sturtevant (250 Yam) was running tb1rd about this time and also spilled farther on, resulting in carburetor trouble dropping him back to 15th spot as he came by looldng as though he bad been clawed by a bob-cat. By the next to the last lap he bad worked up to eighth overall, and charged up into third at the finish behind Miller, who bad consistently worlted his way up from eleventh at the end of the first lap. Snodgrass (Greeves), orig1nally from Mansfield. Ohio, bad second place sewed up in the last lap when he ran out of gas, eventually restarting and finishing 12th in class. Myrick (Husq) fell victim to the same circumstances with third place in hand on the last lap too, but managed some quick juice to get fourth in class, fUth overall. Gabbert (250 Yam) was as far back as eighth in the third and fourth stanzas. He was seventh entering the final goround, coming through into second in class and third overall. 1ben he used a small pair of pliers to pull cactus needles out of his right band and arm, right cheek and upper Up. If I bad been him I would bave waited untlll got home. Yeb man, his wife is a lovely R. N. Ob, hold my hand! Halford (250 Bul) was on a single practice tour when the start flag dropped, and is reported to bave been eight minutes late getting off, but t1naUY t1D1sbed slxtb in c1ass •• Twas a great day for the TO-1's winning one, two, three in c1ass and running the event in 2 hours and 14 minutes, for an average of 31 mUes per hour. (Results on page 16) Wllere's Tlla' Smolre? By Ken Shaw BEANCANYON, Cal., Jan. 12 - The smoke bomb didn't smoke but 78 ride.'s rolled off in the general direction of It anyway. Wes Evans on a 250Cc PurS8ng found his way over the roads aRd trails in varying degrees of completion to make it home first in a little over two hours. Behind him in the comb1latlon hare &< boUDds and poker run were Andy Mc Daniel (250 Bul), Doug EYans (350 Bul) and BUl campbell (238 Kaw). '!be S8far1 Trail Riders bad the poker run set separately and 91 I1ders rode it that way, sldpping the real crlnd. Of the total 1~9 riders in both bags, 101 ftD1sIled - the oldest was 59. the Youncest 11. Four ladies crossed the flnisb line. ODe Marleen Acosta, a Ridge Rider on a uSec Sachs. managed to beat all but one male in ber class. The trouble with the smote bomb was that there _ ' t eoougb wind to blow the smote back over the ridge it was bidden behind. OIl _11. (Results on page 16)