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I~ 1 CH PION MES FINISH By Ron Schneiders Many of us wondered last year just what we were going to get for the $12 dues the AMA was proposing to charge. Last week we M .... '" in the Santa Fe National found out: entertainment! We now have our own inimitable slap-stick· version of Watergate with Russ March cast as the high.handed pres, this time suspector of setting up a non-AMA-sponsored pension plan. Sharon Clayton will star as the wrathful Bible-and-theConstitution-quoting Senator Sam. Don Woods makes a good old southern fried John ErJichmann, and Cycle News subs for the "Washington Post." I can't stand SECOND: Don Cast I 0 iL The quixotic writer in me wants to have a field day with this latest bit of motorcycling nonsense, but this' time the writer must yield to more serious purpose. In just four weeks the eyes of the world will be on us, watching to see how we Americans handle our rtrst ISDT. For the rust time in history news from America will dominate the cycling press of Europe. We're off to a good start: five weeks before the event the AMA ·fires our Juryman and his successor rtreS the Clerk of the Course as his first official action. In Europe these are most honorable titles and the men who bear them are the most respected in European motorcycli"g. Our choices for these posts are by our own hands revealed as scoundrels just weeks before the event. What buffoons we must appear! But the damage is done and cannot be undone, so what of the rest? Can the ISDT proceed with two key men dislodged? What ahou t the financial implications? Is the AMA solvent and do they have the money to make the ISOT happen? THIRD: Darryl Hurst ChG, p', I - FOURTH.: Ken Robelts CI=u,+.: , .. Yamaha Yamaha FIRST: Mike Gerald Chouifiion - yamaha Who Will Replace March And Woods? , The most important question is, of course, who replaces the key men? For Juryman tlie' AMA Executive Committee has chosen Ivan Wagar, the Associate Publisher of "Cycle World". A country's Juryman must have two characteristics: he must have a gteat deal of prestige and he must know the ins and outs of the secret competition of the Six Days. Russ March met both of these quite easily. Ivan Wagar, as publisher of a magazine respec ted in Europe, meets the prestige requirement but he admits he is somewhat short in the area of specific knowledge. He was seriously involved with the ISOT only once, in 1970 when the ISDT was held in Spain. Perhaps, though, with the resources and friends of "Cycle World" and a month to study he might carry it off. In any event there is little choice. There probably aren't three men in the country that one might consider for the job and none with the exception of the OIuted Mr. March who are prima facie more quali!ted. For Clerk of the Course we now have Dave Welsh, who has up until now been handling the logistic functions, hotel reservations, airline tickets, gasoline procurement, and such. The function of the position, Clerk of the Course, is essentially to manage the Trial, ensuring that the course is properly marked, that the checks are in the proper location, and that all the other thousands of details pursuant to' the smooth operation of the event are attended to. It is without douht the most challenging job at the Trial. The real Clerk of ·the Course is Al Eames. He's doing the job almost single-handedly, drawing on his experience from half a dozen Berkshire trials. But while he's doing the job, AMA staff people are wearing the title, rust Don Woods and now Dave Welsh. As the official Clerk of the Course, Dave will have to handle the du ties involving The following MX and Flat Track models are available NOW! Yamaha, DTl, RTI, DT2, RT2 Yamaba ATI, CTl...Yamaha RT3, DT3 Yamaha Twi n s ... B u Itaco S u z uk i ... Ossa ... Husky...Kawasaki...Triumph Honda XL250, 350, Elsinore...CZ. From Doug Schwerma Products - Champion Racing Frames. &;3 @ n:r\~(7 @iSWJro Call: (415) 782-3121 or ""rite LPiS@cQJm@\S0 Drn@o 23684 Clawiter ~EXPERTS 'Well, HOT DOG! That means you've got another coupon to fill out. After all, we have to send your TRiUMPH SUZUKI of POMONA 1049 W. Mission (714) 623-4431 Cycle News somewhere and what better place than your new address? So don't delay, do it today. rFm~~;~~i1~~----------------_· • CYCLE NEWS P.O. Box 498 Lo"'J BoUch, Calif. 90801 I -----------------:-----11 Old Name Old Address "J.H. CLEANSWEEP" ImDro\'ed Exhausts For Fast CZ's IN Hayward, Ca. 94545 1 Custonrl"orting'" Engines by Chend. L8lek "WORKS MECHANIC''' Distrihutors of MAIL ORDER A~d. I Old City --;1 I Old state Old Zip _ _~I I 1 1 1 New Name TEMPLE CITY KAWASAKI New Address for Kawaukl Norton "'_J.5. OIU DKW Monark Penton Moto Guzzi St•• n, CZ Jaw. 5300 North Rosernnd Blvd. Temple City. Ca 9·1780 (213) 287-6167 ~ City New LNewmust give us all this informationState will die! New zip You or you ** WHOOP-tle-CHEWERS *: * love '" "oed CUPCAKES free info: Prog....si•• PYocIucts. Box 1051, L. M .... Ca 120.' ~. 1 ~ 1