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Stump JUlllpers Do Points· Cross in Elsinore .... '" N . ~ l: By Ron Schneiders ::< ~ w Z W .J (J > (J ELSINORE, CAL., Feb. 21, 1971 Not content with having a points battle raging on the desert and on the 'IT courses of southern California, District 37 has initiated a third front, the motocross circuit. And carrying the colors of the A.M.A. into the fray are the Stump Jumpers with the second point event of the year. After losing two locations for their motocross, the Stump Jumpers finally landed at Elsinore, where they took part of the 'IT course, about a mile of good, hairy frreroad and a couple of gooey puddles and assembled a motocross circuit. The course was plenty rough to start with and it got better as the day went 00. Th.ere was one choppy hill that had the 12.5's working right to the limit to get up and some wished they had a compound low, or the equivalent. The bigger jobs had their problems getting sufficiently 'slowed on the downhill to make it around a nasty off-camber left hander in the middle of the hill. If you didn't make it, you and your bike would be picked up with a blotter about 500 feet farther down. After all these trials and tribulations, it was a relief to get back to "the start and that nice, cool refreshing mud bath. Following the mud bath was a 60 mph sweeper and a bare-faced, no-excuses-offered 'IT jump, just like Ascot. Except that with any luck at all your goggles were opaque with mud, so you couldn't see enough to be scared. Since the Stump Jumpers were bumping heads with a couple of other popular motocrosses on this weekend, they didn't get a wh'Ole lot of entries. Only about 170 or so. But this was sufficient for a full day of racing with 3 divisions of each class going two rounds of 25 minutes. This system caused a little distress among some of the riders because the club had advertised that they. were going to have a "European" motocross which consists of three 15·minute motos, according to the new definition' in the AMA rules. Two 30·minute motos is a "Professional" motocross. Two 25-minute motos is a European motocross according to the Stump Jumpers' interpretation of last year's rules when scored according to this year's Professional points schedule. Got that? You could make an instant physical fitness check by seeing who was crying the loudest about having to ride 25 minutes all at one time. In the 125 Ex/Jr. Class, Tony Rogers gets the hard luck award. Tony took two 2nd places in his two motos and in each one a differen t guy won, which with any luck at all, should have assured Tony a points· win. Except that when Scott Smith and Ted Nowak didn't win, J tbB 111lrlBy- Davltlstm - - olltpBrlilrmBrs they scored thirds, thus giving them a tie for first in points and putting Tony in third. The tie was resolved in favor of Scott Smith who won the fastest moto. All three riders were on Yamahas. Fourth place man, Alfred Gazman, rode a Penton. In the 125 Novice Class, Division II, the same sort of a situation occurred, but luck was. with Jim Tucker who scored two seconds and won on points. The winner of the first moto, No. 115, didn't fmish the second and the winner of the second moto, Rick Reinig, had a poor 7th place in the first moto. In third place was Gary Brown who took a 3rd and a 5th in his motos. The name of the game ,is finish. The best races of the day were the 250cc Expert/Juniors. In the first moto, Viewfinder Randy Burak looks pretty scary, but didn't win anything. Joe Sanderson No. 636 took the lead and held on while just a little ways behind him a great fight was in process for 2nd place. First contender was T. L. Nichols on a Maico who for a while looked like he was going fast enough to get first. But then he fell down, dropped back to fourth and finally finished third. Dave Smead, a former Cycle News correspondent, started in third and finally by a process of elimination got second. Joe Erwin, very fast on a Rickman, appeared for one lap in third spot and was moving up fast, but on the next lap he was. gone. Jim Fishback, a CZ hero, was in 2nd spot on the second Gary Brown does a front-wheel wheelie on the rough side of the hill. He took second in the 125 Novice Class, Div. II. 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He stormed into first and set a hot pace. Only Maico-mounted Nichols could stay with him and those two were staging their own race a quarter of a mile ahead of the pack. Then Nichols got a flat and that was that. Meanwhile, Joe Sanderson was moving up from the back of the pack to challenlle, and best, Dave Smead. now in second spot. The second