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October 23,1973 PaJte 12 To... Harton does it with Petroche. Tom Horton is widely known in TT and flat track CI... C racina. A popular AMA racer. Tommy runs in the hjply competitive open cl••• (25Occ and up) bracket. and Is up f!'Ont consistently. • Tom wouldn't consider swltchl". from the Petrochern lubriCllnts he depends upon to olrholn conslslenlly hl8h perfor· mane. from his machine. • Go with Petrochem . . . your machine will like It . " .•nd so will you. ake advantage, save $$$ from the West Coast largest CZ dealer. Super sale of the month, not just ordinary bikes, but our highest quality racing machines. CZ. MONARK. CARABELA .~~.I·~~IIII·' Rich Delaney throws his Cote over some rocks. Ulrich photo Californja Trials Championship Round Two-Marland on Montesa By John D. Ulrich VALENCIA, CAL., OCT. 14 Marland Whaley (Mon) beat the best in California today in the State Championship Trials held at Indian Dunes. Whaley, fmishing in (714) 894-2623 ~NTON. & MONARK. TV"". front of Mark Eggar (aSS) by a margin of eigh t poin t, is as lI(ood as crowned as 1973 State Champion. Bernie Schreiber (Bul), the rider closest in the year's placings to Whaley finished sixth. .. 1t was a day of mistakes for Lane Leavill (Bul) considered the best trials rider in the country by many people, as he failed to even crack the lOp five Masters spots at the Championships. The mostly dry, dusty, and tight Masters sections upset some of the' SAtes - service - Parts - Accessories 0 .. R Cyc:les 7181 Westmlnster'Ave. A long stretch but no dabs for fourth place George Smith. Ron Szilagyi photo Westminster Calif. 92683 Mike Patrick's • YAMAHA of CORONA 1101 E. 6th St. - Corona (714) 735-7721 Motorcycles Hodak. 111Ut.uuttlf!;~:Sport Cycle ~~ GUY R. LOUIS (714) 893·7057 72·19 Westminster Ave., Westminster Ca. I ~:~,£'to'~~~·": Cypress, CA 90630 (7141 827·1427 COMPETITION MOTORCYCLE WHEELS DESIGNED. IIUILT AND .. !P....£D. .NO soc FOfI CATALOGt riders. After riding the seventh section on the nine section Master loop, run four times during the day, Wbaley simply staled that he liked the section except for one tum that was 100 tight. • Other riders had different reactions to the section thai had every Master dabbing, and Leavill, amonll. others, crashing. Allan Boynton (Mon) visiting from Scotland, called it "rubbish'". Richard Delaney (Mon) thought the whole affair was uridiculous. " Trials fans on hand thought a lot of Mark Eggar's second place performance, and predicted that it was Eggar, recovering from a destroyed wrist, who would give Whaley the most trouble in the battle for the 1974 State Trials Number One. Martin Belair (Mon) and George Smith (Bul), third and fourth Master respectively, were also quite impressive. Smith, often referred to as uthe gentleman of trials", always seemed to have a smile on his face, and never complained. Gary Bergman rode the only Honda to place in the top five of any class, taking second Novice with three more poin ts that Tim Leblanc on a more conventional trials mount...a Montesa. Most of the riders attending the meet were Novices, with ability ranging from cleaning their sections to crashing through the surrounding trees. The Novices make up the backbone of trials. Injured motocrosser DeWayne Jones showed up to watch, and Speedway ace Randy Riggs rode the Amateur Sections on a new Yamaha trials bike. Doug Bradbury (BuI) was the best Amateur, Steve Graham (Bul) lopped all the other I I., "