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;EDALIA NATIONAL SEDALIA NATIONAL SEDALIA NATIONAL SEDALIA NATIONAL SEDALIA NATIONAL SEDALIA NATIONAL SEDALIA • ;EDALIA NATIONAL SEDALIA NATIONAL SEDALIA NATIONAL SEDALIA NATIONAL SEDALIA NATIONAL SEDALIA NATIONAL SEDALIA )01'1 ~ w Z pack to slip past leader Rex Beauchamp to take the lead on the second to the last lap. Rick Holly took the second Amateur heat. As the Amat~ur qualifiers revved their motors at the line for the feature, the Beauchamp pit crew could be seen along the sidelines frantically and sweatily pushi~g Rex's Harley. But, when the clutch was dropped, the rear wheel refused to turn; it appeared that his engine had sefzed, possibly as a result of the extreme heat. Rex seemed to wave the race off himself, as no sooner had he indicated to the flagman his retirement, the field was off. Gary Fisher, re,turning to the National Championship circuit for the first time since his crash at the Newsies, took an early lead. Dennis Palmgren made a replay of his heat by moving steadily through the pack but he could not quite catch the flying Fisher. Rik Holly took third. It was in the Expert Main when Mann suffered his fracture when he was involved in a collision with Rice and Palmgren. None of the riders fell, however, but Mann was forced to leave the race. Not only is he out of the race for Number One plate, but also for the Trans-AMA motocross series coming up this fall. . - Gene Romero leads Dick Mann and Chuck Palmgren down the straight. Romero went On to Win the Expert.Main, while Mann broke his leg during a Main Event accident. The National was only a small part of the events' comprising the 68th Annual Missouri State Fair as attendance figures s.et all time records in spite of the heat. As many as 30,000 people a day passed through the entry gates, many of them with horses, hogs, bulls and pies. Motorcycles were not really the big crowd-getter. The night before the '. National, 'a lOO-mile auto ·raC,e on the same mile clay track had drawn an overflow crowd. It was only after the motorcycle races that the huge grandstand began to fill again for an afternoon run of super-modifieds that was the official climax of the fair. . (R'esulfs on page 26) Dear Bob, If the report and pictures seem a bit sketchy and of poor quality, I must explain that I somehow alienated avery, very large Missouri State trooper who actually hit me with his Missouri State trooper club and pulled at my hair and cursed at me and actually"evicted me during the expert feature. I was doing nothing; there were other' photographers who were where I was supposedly not allowed. They had short hair, however. He broke one of my cameras and destroyed one roll of film, too. Another roll is not exposed because the spro,cket holes are ripped. Anyway, I hope the mm I do have is good enough for the paper. I hope they allow me to ao better at Indianapolis, Ind., next week. --ANDY 'WHIPPLE Castro finished second behil'ld Romero. Paul Pressgrove, older brother Ken and Keith Mashburn get the word at the riders' meeting before race time. W ...J () >~l