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- ... Priees Start At HODAKA~SHIPS "VAllA8L£I.s.-K... " ' -. Wrtt.PABATCO ".S2 .~.Or...-"'.J ' . The Original Firestone Sportsman A MUST for you r complete selection of racing t ires. A PROVEN WINNER many , many t imes on soft or -cushioned tracks. Size 400 x 19 only Penhall and Mike Bast swept me final over O.C.'s two Bills - Gray and Cody - to overkill the Eagles : 54-24. For statisticians, L.A . made the mo st sweeps in one night and won with the largest point lead yet. Tonight was graduation night for some riders. Louis Lindwall set do wn his sheepskin and boogied to. victory in the Second Division Main. Ro b Mo rr ison gr ab be d the Handicap Co nsolation over Steve Co lu mbo and Steve Fortune, who also graduated tonight. In the Main, Alan Christian made up for whatever grief he suffered in the team contest with a win, while fellow Eagles Mike Mun tean and Jan Ballard fo llowed up two-three. match race, the only difference being four laps instead of two. Cody has the all-time record for match races. Two years ago he went one entire season two nights a week and never got beat. And that, unfortunately for Jeff and the Bandits, was the way it worked out again. Final score Eagles 42, Bandits'41. Three Second Divisio n heats, a total of 18 riders, left just enough to make up the Division Two Main . Steve Hein managed to kee p from. running over any fallen riders, working his way through the tang les for the wi n. By Dennis Greene Bakersfield, Californ ia June 12, 1976 Costa Mesa, California June 11, 1976 The League leading Ban di ts played host to the red hot Ventura Sharks. These two teams were so well-matched neither could get a point up on the other for the first four eve nts. They split each race three points even. Ventura took over by two points in the fifth race only to have the Bandits tie it back up in the sixth. Again the Sharks by two in the seve nth and then in the eighth the Bandits got the first of two clean sweeps. Events eight and nine ended up tieing the score again . When you put the Number One Speedway .team up against a team that is tied for last place, a team that was beaten the nigh t before by 30 points, you don't expect much of a show. But the Bakersfield Ban di ts, Number One in the League, came down' to meet the Orange Co unty Eagles in the season's closest meet. The Bandits got right on the scoreboard in the first event with a clean sweep . But that was to b e the biggest p oint spread all n ight, as th e le ad droppe d to t wo p oints u ntil even t seven, whe n t he score got tie d up 21 all. The Bandits aga in took a two-point lead an d kept it th rough to Event 12. In wh at is u suall y the final eve n t, 13 , the ra ce for high -poin t rider s, Rick Woo ds, team captain fo r th e Eagles, wo n and teammate Bill Gr ay to o k third, giving them j u st enough po in ts to tie the sco re at 39 each. League rules say there can be no tie in team racing, so any rider who has not had five rides that night goes into the tie -breaker, but only one m an per team. This task fell on Team . Captain Jeff Sexton for the Bandits, and Bill Cody fo r the Eagles . Almost like a · $26.50 Calif. residen ts add 6% sales tax COD o rders 85 ~ extra Total price includi ng delivery anywhere in Continental U.S.A. By Dennis Greene In the 11th race, th e Ban di ts took over the lead by two points, agai n, o nly to split the 12th race. T hey still had a two-point advantage going into the 13th and fina l event where the Bandits got their second clean sweep. Final score, 42 to 36. Dubb Ferrell ca me back to win his fifth Han dicap Main of th e season. Du bb 's point ave rage as of last week was 11.21, pu tting him into sec ond behind Mike Bast. By the time mosi riders get into their 40's they're ready to han g up their steel shoe. But, at age 41, Grant Murray just got into Speedway - and won the Division Two Main here. _ Resul ts in Resul ts Section. Californ ia Business Engineering 3747 5th Ave. SaI\D iego . CA 92103 7 14-298-7070 Go faste r - drink more prune juice and eat more kelp ! 25¢ r---------------, Give flour ~" is what I t costs per le tter t o put your name or ri dln, number o n you r favo rite jersey. sweatlft lrt , o r T -sh irt wtaU. you wa lt . Phone (2 13) 534-231f -r~O YAMA "fA 2 4 020 Narbonne Ave•• Lomi t a, CA 90717 a break! " I CRUISER CONTROL Now you ean ride all day without fat igue , setting int~ou r throttle hand I CRUIS ER Ctl NTRO ~ cah ~ used t o aid your lo ng ' . . ,oial in a co nstant t ease th e have a complet can b e install e ..... o~ ~o ugh to e t hrot e. Yo u sti ll th ott Ie uN I! w ith I . , CONTR OL ou n ten m i nutes - with on ly a sere ive . Comes wit h a set of bu llet -proof inst etions and a set of G ran Turismo Grips, for on lv 519 .95 PPD . Dea ler Inculrtes Invited ~ IO E 'S CYCLE SUPPLY 852 N. Carter Dr'. Dept. C NW Jonesboro. GA 30236 ~--~£~~~-------~ 39