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a threat in' the scqring at Pepperell. I\t the drop o! the flag for the first ~to, John DeSoto jumped out in the lead !lowed by Jim West. HJgg1ns and Jim ~n worked up out o! the pack so by I tive it was DeSoto, Higgins, Wilson d West. Higgins was ga.1n1ng on De to and made a bid on the inside of bo's groove on the grandstand turn. front of thousands o! people sitting on ! grassy slope John and Barry coWded. rry went flying and John slid into the Ice. DeSoto's CZ kePt running so he s up and away while Higgins lost most a lap in getting started. DeSoto waved .wilson by and the Cali'nians seemed to have it wrapped up Wilson, 'DeSoto, West and Tim Hart lding down the t4'st tour places. Olen Hart did a big number over the rs and Jim O'Neal pitched bimselt !l' a snow fence. Easterners Peter th Lamppu and Seppo Makinen came up to get third and fourth and John Rfce touled a plug so both he and O'Neal were DNFs. The entire East team tinIshed so despite CalUornians in first, second and fltth the New Englanders held an edge going into the second heat. John Rice pulled out all the stops and led the mob on' the opening lap of the second moto. DeSoto took over and Lamppu was applying pressure in third place. Wilson was back in traffic and Higgins slid off in the first lap. Peter Lamppu and Glen Vincent got past Rice while Jimmy Weinert, first Eastern Alternate started a drive that brought him into contention with DeSoto tor the lead. Winert and DeSoto battled it out, swaPping the lead in several corners. Now HIgg1ns was trying to catch UP. He dogged Jim O'Neal for part of one Mllat Chamb.laln (clntlr) nailed down Slh oyerall In II. lruck lull 01 bllats alld parts 6000 llIills lor tilt tum rael. lap before knocking himselt cold trying to get by Jim in the high speed bumps. Hart came to his favorite spot in the course and bailed over the bars again. Wilson picked oft Vincent but couldn't catch Lamppu before the flag. The West got a big break in the last laps when Weinert crashed in the same place Higgins had. That gave DeSoto the win ahead at Lamppu and Wilson. Higgins and Ron Jeckel were both Eastern DNFs and it was a brand new ball game tolksl The scores were dead even with the tinal mote coming UP. In the third round Weinert and DeSoto continued their dice and Wilson got into it too. Weinert led around the first turn ahead o! DeSoto but then Wilson got past DeSoto to challenge for the lead. The trio see-sawed back and torth unt1l De Soto got on a big drive and zapped by both Wilson and Winert. The DeSotoWeinert war waged on' unt1l Weinert loaded up and took a DNF , Wilson tired out and tell off the pace, letting Lamppu, Makinen and Vincent pull up behind DeSot. Lamppu charged on (Continued on page 27) HlIt Cle-.ts r'" two '-' .os to bullll off .._ hlChly rattd 250 ~sperts alii IIrlnCIlD. the tlllrd ,ltce _yo