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By Mike Capalite
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Dennis Gildenhaus matches crossed up slides with Bill Cody.
Story and Photos by Dennis Greene
over his teammate Big Mike Conly. Bill
then came back in the Handlcap Main to
BAKERSFIELD, CAL. June 13, 1970Team racing is what the Bakersfield fans
want to see. Once again promoter Gene
Rhyne matched the undefeated Bakersfield team against a new team from
Paramount, Cal., made uP of Gary and
Butch Fishburn, Jerry Singer and T.V.
star Billy Gray. Although the final total
score was not as overwhelming as last
week the Bakersfield team once again
came out on top 13 to 11, much to the
pleasure of the local fans.
Although Bill Cody is not from the
Bakersfield area he is probably the most
popular rider to set a wheel on the track.
He took an impressive scratch main win
add a little more glory to the team with
a first. Mike again came in right behind
Bill for second place.
If 2 main event wins were not enough
for Bill's fans, he also won an earlier
match race between Jim Gresham and
himself.
Some of the newer speedway fans at
Bakersfield who have only heard of
Rick Woods were disappointed when he
was unable to make the program due to
injuries he sustained on his European
tour.
Although he did ride .Friday night he
aggravated the injury to his hand to the
point where he could not hang on to the
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handlebars safely. He felt he whould
wait another week and give his hand a
week more to heal.
Steve Best, who has been out because
of an injury earlier in the season, was
unable to ride.
With the return of both Rick and Steve
Bakersfield fans trnly will have an experience to look forward to.
(Results on page 22)
COSTA MESA, CAL. June 12, 1970 Friday night was not a Rick Woods nlght
as the Huntlngton Beach speedway ace
returned to the action at the Orange
County Fairgrounds track atter his triP
to Czechslova.lda. MaJdng the triP behind
the Iron Curtain with the C- Z lmporter,
Rick.was ~ble to get a cOuPle starts in
some of the local SPeedway Races over
there. Rick had some bad luck in one of
the races as something flew off one of the
other rider's bike and struck Woods in
the hand, (they never did find out what it
was) it almost tore his. glove off and
lacerated his left hand very badly. To
hear-Rick tell it, it is rather humorous
although it could have been tragic. It
seems that when they hauled him off to
get his hand taken care of, the importer,
Joe Kubicek who was also Rick's interpreter stayed at the track to take care
of the machine. When they got Rick to the
hospital, they opened uP the wound and
scrubbed it out with a toothbrush and
alcohol and sewed it up, all without benefit of any painkiller whatsoever. As they
couldn't understand Rick and he couldn't
understand them, they merely ignored
his protests. When Woods returned to the
United States last Wednesday, the hand
was badly infected and a trip to the doctor put him in the hospital for an operation on Thursday to remove a splinter of
steel and some cinders from the wound.
Despite this, Rick was at the track Friday night ready to race••
No doubt Woods wished he had stayed
home as his first race of the evening resulted in a bad spill in the fir st corner
which was a great surprise to the crowd
as Rick rarely unloads. He had appauntly hurt his hand and there was concern
in the stands as to whether or not he
would be able to come back out for the
long-awaited match race with 'Wild Bill'
Cody. Of the slxprevious races held here,
Rick has won the first four while Cody
has taken the last two while Woods was
overseas, for this reason the announcement that Woods would continue to ride
was met with a roar of approval from
the fans.
(Continued on page 25)
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