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Seplember 28, 1969, SUnday 135 MILE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ENDURANCE RUN. Meteor M.C .• % Lou Mahon. 1124 Kaighn Ave .• Camden. N.J. 08103. Southern New Jersey. 5 se,. . . &-1, lE, sat. & SUD. 125 MILE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ROAD RACE. Sears Point Raceway, ~ sears Point. California. Gordon Martin. 2: ~ u . . . . . 14, 1969, SUnday 25 MlLE ONE-MILE DIRT TRACK NATIONAL CHAMPIONSmP. Agajanian Ent. Inc•• Old Sacramento Fairgrounds, Sacramento. California. .'1 hr 21, 1!1&!1, SIIIay OUTDOOR SHORT TRACK lIOATIONAL CHA' CANCELLED Speedway. Lincv&l'. nc::u., .Jerry Biskup & Jim Adams. rthe a:l saOOLeBaCK AmON'S SEPTEMBER 1 OCMC Motocross; SCTA Riding School. SEPTEMBER 14 ACA Motocross. SEPTEMBER 21 Saddleback Scrambles; SCTA Riding School; Mini-aike & Go- Kart Meet. SEPTEMBER 28 CMC Motocross. OCTOBER 5 ACA MotOCross; SCTA Riding School. Twilight Special: 5-7 p.m. for $1. Open Weekends 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Weekdays 9-7. Admission $2.50; Juniors & Minis $LSO. september 28, 1969, SUnday HALF MILE DIRT TRACK NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. Mar-Car, Inc .• Fairgrounds Speedway, Oklahoma City, Okla. October 3-4, 1969, Fri. & Sal. HALF MILE DIRT TRACK NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP (Night) Agajanian Ent.• Inc., Ascot Park, Gardena, Cal. Octaber 5, 1969, Sunday 150 MILE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ENDUt:AHCELL~O de Bombers. 2542 . .. _' _', .._ erslde, Cal. 92509 Mojave Desert, Barstow, Cal. Octaber 19, 1969, SUnday 155 MILE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ENDURANCE RUN, Mid-West Enduro Team. P.O. Box 22444. St. Louis. Mo. 63126. At PotOSi. "1issouri. November 9, 1969, SUnday 125 MILE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ENDURANCE RUN, Hayward M.C. 3800 Depot Rd., Hayward, Cal. 94545, Upper Lake. MEXICO VACATION TOUR, ANYONE? Seasoned travelers Mr. & Mrs. Bill Harmer are still seeking company on their. planned motorcycle tour to Meldco City, the tirst two weeks of November. Bill lived in Meldco City and speaks the language. Anyone interested in a tun trip should write to Bill Harmer, 1331 Bush St., San Diego, Calitornia 92103. Mention your age, make ot bike and any other information that may be ot Interest and Harmer wUl send you an outline of the tour. DATE SET FOR SACTO NATIONAL SACRAMENTO, CALIF. - J.C. Agajanian, bas announced the dates tor his annual National Championship Motorcycle racing events at the old Cal1tornia State Fairgrounds In Sacramento. Agajanian bas inked three major races tor the one- mUe dirt track this year, starting with his elev.enth running ot the AMA 25-mUe National ChampionshiP Motorcycle races on Sunday afternoon, September 14th. This year the nation's leading riders wUl duel for a record $12,000 In prize money during the 11 event card. The longest and ricbest dirt track motorcycle event in !be West is expected to draw an all-star tield. Head1ng the cast of more than lOO-riders will be tormer AMA Grand National champions Bart Markel ot Flint, Micb. and Dick Mann of Richmond. Others Include current poInt leader Mert LawwUl ot San Francisco, Gene Romero ot San Luls ObisPO, Cal Rayborn of San Diego, and Canadian title bolder Yvon Duhamel. Advance sale ticket information can be had trom Agajanian Enterprises, Inc., P.O. Box 98, Gardena, CaJjt. 90247 or trom the Civic Theater Box Office, 1419 "H" Street, Sacramento 95814, 0Uit. Neckbreaker Kills Policeman ('0';5 Speedway To Hos' AMA Pro Racing SANTA MONICA, CAL. Aug. 22- Police motor otticer William Davidson, 31, was killed by a neckbreaJcer In the parking lot ot the Santa Monica courthouse while instructing a recrult in the operation of a 3.-wheeled motorcycle used by parking enforcement officers. Davidson started out ot the parking lot about 8:30 p.m. and talled to see the cbaln that had been drawn across the driveway. He was ilurled trom the macbine, the cbaln catching him in the cbest and sliding lIP under his cbIn. The driverless motorcycle continued across the street and smasbed into a bouse. The Hollywood Citizen-News reported the death as a "treak accident," but this is the tourth such tragedy to come to the attention ot Cycle News wilhln the past year. Every year tour or tivepeople In the west are k11led by neckbreakers similar to the one which got Officer Davidson. Througbout the U.S. sucb needless tragedies probably number over a dozen annuallY. Countless riders are seriously injured. EJCPerienced riders, novices, kids on m1n1bikes all are equally In danger as long as unmarked neckbreakers are allowed to exist. These senseless k11lings are usually listed as "trattic" accldents and retlect badly on the safety record of motorcycles. Then the bue and cry is tor more ..£~, \ laws to restrict motorcycle rldlng, as It the machine or rider were at tault. In the case of neckbreaJcers and most carmot'Jrcycle accidents, no amount of restrictive laws, compulsory protection, etc. ts going to have any eftec t on the death toll, except perhaps to worsen it througb neglect ot the real causes. Cycle News has said before, and we repeat: neckbreakers must be dangermarked. Invisible chains, wires, and cables stretcbed across a drive are nothing less than deathtraps. When will our lawmakers, who seem so eager to protect us trom our own rIsks, wake lIP to the dangling threat ot neckbreakers and pass a law to protect us trom the unconsciousness or mallce ot others? How many more blameless citizens wUl have to die betore someone realizes that the oniy thIng "freak" about neckbreaker killlngs is the way this manslaughter continues to be ignor.ed. CLOVIS, Aug. 14 - AMA professional racing will be beld at the Clovis Speedway (Rodeo Grounds) on Saturday nigbts, September 20 and 27, it was announced today by promoter Blackie Gejian. The events will be co-promoted by Bob Barkbimer Associates and a complete weekly scbedule of racing is slated tor 1970. Clovis Speedway is a halt mile lighted dirt oval and boasts of one of the tInest dirt tracks In the nation. Seating capacity is 4,500. Clovis is eleven miles north ot Fresno. AMA Referee Hank Genduso wUl be In charge of the evenis. ' More Miner' As reported last week, Calitornian Cbuck MInert is now based In Birmingham, England and getting rides on a works BSA. He is running an ad In the Englisb papers trying to buY the same machine 1 ran ads tor In this paper. Small world. The machine In question is the ex- Jerry Scott Gold Star Cbeney special. 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