cornpetmve m o to . The: n ex t tw o 20
minut e races w ere w on by Burt '''aId
wh ich gave him ano t her first pl ace
Maj esti c tr o ph y to cram o n the shelf. •
All wrapped up and '
nowhere to go with
AMC at Saddleback
By Stewart B. Sapicoff
IRVI NE , CAL.,jUNE 14
To night the Ope n Interm ed iat es
need ed something to catch the eye
of th e specta tors. Sco t t Cavness
(Bul) was the lea der of the " plan."
It was t heir first mota. At the drop of
the g-ate Glenn Keyes (:llai) plunged into
the le ad w ith Cavness in a close second
de term ined to take first. This is when
thei r b ill; plan w ent in to effect. Cavness,
still in sec on d , new off the " div ing
bo ard " j ump, held it on too lon g as he
ap pro ached the smoo th and slippe ry
'sweepe r, and wen t st raigh I off the
co urse in to t he infield. lI e man aged t o
cru ang le, rip to shreds, an d co mple te ly
scatter the mo st marke r flag'S I have ev e r
seen one guy single- ha ndedly de st roy.
When the rest of the race rs ca me to th e
dis aster area a co u ple o f th em be came
"wrapped up" in their wo rk.
Between the st art an d t he finis h of
th at mor o a lo t of cha nges too k place as
far as fin ishing po si ti on s. Keyes lo oked
like the "shoe-in " for hi s class as he held
a \lery secure first place all t he way up
to the last lap. As fate would ha ve it,
th is w as no t t o be, be cause a t the fini sh
he failed to sh ow up . lie came in for a
third right in front of an u ntangled
Cavness.
Before his se cond m oto Cavn ess said
the error he made in the firs t mota wa s
not go ing to be rep eate d. Fo r th e nex t
two mo tos, he t oo k two firsts and th e
fir st Over all for the evening with hardly
an y hassle from any of his fellow
co mpe ti to rs.
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