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A nd Terry Crutcher was top 125 Expert on the natural-terrain circuit un t il Dave Osborn showed up. clay becam e im po ssible o n th e few level places on the tr ack. So their su per uphills and downhills were o u t of the q uestion. J oe Ye ager too k the 125 cc Expert lead and held it until lap tw o when his exhaust pipe cam e o ff . This ca use d a three-way battle for th e lead between Jerry Crutcher, Rich ard Hird and Dave Osborn. Crutcher led until the seventh lap when Osborn got b y and won. Stan Peterson to o k the Open Expert lead an d held it until th e fifth lap when he cal led it a day when motor gremlins and Butch Patterson t o ok over and won. Wes Patterson t ook the holeshot in the 25 0 Expert a nd hel d it until the fo urt h lap when J o e Yeager shot by, b ut a lap late r P atterson caugh t Ye ager and passed him on th e st eep downhill st ai rcase at the end of the fro nt st raight. Yeag e r st a yed close and c hal le nged for t he lead several times but co uld n 't get by. • Resu lt s in Results Section. Hairston on a 10 00 T riumph an d Gary Chandler o n a 9 00 Honda four did no t materialize be cause th ey both had handling problems on the 160-foot Luc ky Landing hill. Gary Chandler did ge t top time of 6.7 5 on his 750cc T ri um p h with his first run in the 1500 class. The only other person who even cam e close to his time was Cleve Martin on his 360 Bultac o . Cleve set a time of 6.96 seconds in the 500 class on his las t ru n. He bought Chandler's o ld bike -an d too k the best parts t o use o n his bike. It seem s he has . really hit on a good comb inatio n even if he does have to have so meone p ull him to get it started most of the ti me . With the close of the championship season near, interest in who is on top is high. In the 200 class there are four riders still in contention for first. Norris Meeks has 39 points with B.D . Westerfield, Tommy Elkins and Sunny Holmes all within seven points. All of them ride 200 Bultacos and it's always a toss-up. Sunny was the only one of the four over th e hill today while the rest had trouble on the lower part. He also took home first on his 100 Kawasaki. Norris was seen back at the hill after it was over, practicing his takeoff. • Re sults in Results Se ction. Rio Bravo MX By Mark Knowles Made BY motorcycle peop le, FOR motorcycle r iders and so ld BY motorcycle dealers,.," , .... ...... '-- The Bel -Ray Family of Products brought to yoil by: Watkins Distributing co. P. O. Box 813, Garland Texas 75040 (214) 276-0409 - ....!15~ i"!" ~ '" I ~~ ••X~ I~ ," •." .' 'e Fast slrvle. 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Th e 125 Intermediat e class is beco m ing the class to watch as some o f its top rid ers will so on be turnin g Expert. T od ay, Art h ur Pr ater (2, I ) a nd Don Guillory ( 1, 2 ) se t th e pace which quickly separ ated them from the re st of the pack with Prater edging Guillo ry fo r first . Clint Ward (5 , 3 ) slip pe d past Gu y Romine (4, 4 ) in the battle for third. The 125 Ex pe rt class was the hottest of th e d ay with all in m in d o f upsetting Bo Koch. Glen Urq uhart gra bbed th e lea d in the first m ot o b ut Ko ch so on p assed him , never being challenged th e rest of the da y. Urqu hart experienced p ro bl em s and Cali fornia refugee Mik e Wharton m ov ed in to second foll owed by Mickey Pizz at ol a. The second moto was a repeat of m o t o o ne with Ko ch out fron t and Wharton main taining a safe second. Mickey Pizzatola (3 , 5 ) to ok home third pl ace cas h as Ch ad Kennedy (7, 4 ) placed fo urth . Consisten cy p aid Bill Gr een as he won the 250 Expert class with a p air of sec o nd s. Steve Schramm (5 , I) overcame a sluggish first moto to place second as Greg Howard (1, 4) slipp ed from a sure victory into third ahead of Allen Humphrey (5 ,3). . Gr eg Howard returned in form to win the Open Expert class de spite findin g co m pet itio n in th e form o f Mark Pard u e. Pardue (2, 3 ) p laced seco nd as newly turned Expert John Tu tt ( I , 4 ) fad ed in th e seco nd moto to th ird . • Results in Results Section . Three ind ivid ual and stylish ways to lose it on the Dallas hill : The Bas ic Bulldog ; The •... m t ired. you go on without me" play; And the exotic " I can't stop dancing" boogie.