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"" g « ~ w Z W ..J U >U Fred Wa'lti heels it over while looking for a 250 production win. .It was a downloose day. The last race was given the checkers by this young fellow. James Dunham- (821 won the open production class. If the bike looks familiar, it is because generous Jim loans it to all sorts of people. He and Bob Endicott win a lot on it. Our reporter rode it and says it is easy to ride but doesn't have all the powver that the competition insists it must. It's the riders. The 250 Seniors were led home by Steve Froschauer who was followed by Tim Rockwood, younger brother of Tom. The 250 Junior GP event was fought out among West Cooley, Jr. (the eventual winner), Chuck Strohmenger, and another fellow who wen t zinging by them both, but then overcooked it in turn one and was put out of business. All those 250 riders were on Yam ahas , but Bruce Longson, who took third in the Junior even t, rode an AJS! Charles Gulyash on a Vangard Engineering Kawasaki 500 doubled, winning both the 500 Junior GP event and the 500 production event. In winning his class in production, he got carried away and won the whole production even t going away. Gulyash avoided a starting grid pileup and was smoking for the first few laps as h" pulled out an unassailable lead. A little ways back was Jim Dunham (Hon) who was still feeling the course out in his first ride here. Even so he won the Open class. Generous Jim Dunham was kind enough to offer this writer his neat Honda 750 for the heavyweight GP event. The heat had become rather oppressive, so Wes combined the Senior and Junior classes. From my fast perch I was able to obtain a good view of front line happenings. It was a Junior who grabbed the lead at the flag. Gerhard Klemm, (N or) left. He was joined 'shortly by another Junior, Mike Wenzel on a Yamaha TR-2 who eventually went by. Then Howard Lynggard on a factory Yamaha 350 went by them all. He was just fooling around, but he did it faster than anyone. Hauling up behind all these was Gulyash again for 500 honors. Wes Cooley Jr. began to move in on the leaders, but had a pretty frustrating , time of it. His bike tried to throw him off in tum one and then quit running, putting him out. Bud Keeley (Hon) and Barry Roberts (Yam) battled for second sPOt in the 350 Junior event with Roberts doing it in the end. Racing was completed by 3:30. Some of those who could still walk in the heat ran around in various states of undress in aJames Dunham Productions shower, and some went home before it started to rain. 1 • ...Some people escaped the heat in a shower provided by a convenient pump. fmd ...