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By Dick Wright
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Almllll bet_n the Jo.hua Tre.., .01111 of the IUJ' whooped It up for the cam.ras.
BARSTOW, CALIF. Nov. 23 -All the fast
guys were there - Roberts, Bergquist,
Patrick and Poteet. The course was a
101lg one, ftfty miles in all. New territory,
after the start. Larry Bergquist had the
lead at the smoke bomb on his Bultaco
but Tom Poteet was right behind him on
a 250 Bultaco.
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The course went out over some rreat
boondock trails, then across two fourmUe d1:Y lakes, turned \lP a CO\lPle lollg
fire roads, winding UP into the high hllls.
J.N. Roberts got around Poteet and
took over the lead from Bergquist but
couldn't lost him. Tbe two dueled it out
tor about twenty miles with Mike Patrick
on a 250 Yamaha and Poteet _tching the
action from a hundred feet back in third
and fourth places. Patrick said "afterwards, "Those two were rea.lly havillg
a ball! They must have chaDged backand
forth teD times". The battle look its toll
as Bergquist had to drop out.
Comillg into the pits it was Roberts
with a big lead followed by Poteet. Every0Ilg was running low on gas; a lot of riders ran out about five miles before the
pits. Patrick ran short of gas and sputtered through in third spot.
On the second loop Roberts held the
lead with Patrick moviDg \lP to challeuge
in a CO\lPle of places, but Roberts kept
the pressure on and came in for the win
after two hours and thirty minutes of
hard riding. At the fiDish Une J.N. said,
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