Curt Hunter barely leads fellow Novice Kent Goar at the Douglas County Fairgrounds.
The unsinkable Charlie Brown.
Douglas County
Pro Half-Miler .
By Lynne Diltz
ROSEBURG, ORE.,jUNE 24
The summer program of professional racin g finally go t underway,
after a May 30 rainout that came
near to wiping out the hosts, Cro ss
30
Country Riders. This Thursday nigh t
race was the firs t in a weekend series of
three (Half-Mile, Sidewinders, Castle
Rock) th at put some $650 0 in th e
pockets of Pro rid ers.
There's a tall wall surrounding the
half-mile an d a couple of riders jus t h ad
to investigate. junior Randy Hin sz
splatter ed a section by the back gate
r e qu irin g a m b u lance servi ce an d
stitches. Anothe r ri de r' in the Expert
divisio n hit neu tral after the checkered
n ag an d took o ut o ne whole sec tio n of
wall bu t wa lked away fro m it all. He
shall remain nameless. Davi d Yo st also
splattered the wall, an d was unhurt.
Law s on f ro m Ontario,
E dd ie
Califo rnia n at cleaned house in th e
No vice division with wins in his he at,
TD and Main. Orego n's Kent Goar wi th
a he at wi n, TD third an d second in the
Main, received second place mon ey .
Chet Campbell an d Dave Mazour
provided side by side ac tio n in their
heat, with l\lazour co m ing out ahead by
a narrow margin. Mazo ur wen t o n to a
fifth in th e Main but Camp bell had
Top junior money went back to
Vancouver, Washington with Dean
Sykes. He made a clean sweep of beat,
TD and Main.
Expert Bill Oliver turned fast time
for a 21.98 on the dirt track and
finished third in the Expert Main.
Randy Skiver took over first from
Charlie Brown when Brown mistook the
balf-way signal for a white flag . Charlie
slacked off after what be thought was
the checkered lap, losing five places and
regaining all but that first one.
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Results in Results Section.
Sunny Valley TT
By Lynne Diltz
SUNNY VALLEY, ORE.,jUNE .27
California riders, fo r the second
time in a row, wen t hom e with the
lion 's share of trop hies from
Sou thern Oregon' s Sunny Valley
Sp eedway TT. It w as a day of ups ets
starting off with Min i rider jeff Miller ,
wh o missed a tum during th e line-up
lap, fo und a di tch and had to be taken
to a hospital fo r som e 22 s tit ches in his
leg. T he fir st wave of 125s had Carl
Hibb ard wre cking and Cecil Ari spe
going off turn one, plowing up wee ds.
Pat Co nway di dn ' t eve n mak e the start
of the 250 heats - he stacked it up
coming out of the pits. Kevin Gudzan
got disgus te d after picking it up a
couple of t imes; finally sat in the center,
shaking his head .
