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•Western ------------------ -------------------------------------------------_._- == ~ st ep of the way . On th e final lap Chris turned on fo r a burst o f power and nosed under Hames. Both rid ers were set u p for a win , b ut right at th e ' line Pete stretched ju st en ough to ta ke it. Cannon ushered S now in for third. The [mal race was re started when Ch ris jumped th e lin e and Hames was left on th e startin g lin e. More problems occurred when Bobby Garabedian bit the dust and again th e ra ce was called to a halt> Jim Snow p ull ed th e third holeshot, but Cannon and Hames were ou t for blood. Pete slipped under Chris and se t his sights on Snow. Pete turned it on at th e top o f the straight and got what he was after. Chris followed in Pete's footsteps and moto three ended, just as the two previous races, with Pe te Hames taking the win. The 250 Amateurs 'and Experts ran together in two hea t ra ces, a semi, and a main. Eddie Beeson and Steve Loomis reserved th eir seats in the m ain from the first heat and Larry Bird led Greg Zeh ner on to thc main from the second. The se mi turned out to be as crazy as the mini rac e. Dorothy Rowe to ok a head er trying to avoid some bikes that had slowed up bu t, with some help fr om Don Frau en b erger, go t her bike back in working order: What ever he did to her Yamah a was done very well becau se she sho t ou t fron t and led th e race up to the [mal lap when J eff Sp ri ngman bull -d ogged his way past to take the win . D oro th y , Mike T id well an d Steve Wosko ski joi ned the others in the m ain. Beeson got the jump off the line and th at ' s all he n eed ed . Steve Loomis and J eff Sp rin gm a n were left to battle fo r the second p lace position. Neither n o ticed that Larry Bird had moved up and quick as a flash Larry traded places with Loomis and tried his luck with Springman. Jeff held on and the n um ber two spot belonged to h im, Larry settl ed for third. T h e three muske teers o f th e 125 Amateur/E xpert were Duane Gall ager, Steve Polson and Mik e Tidwell. Gallager took th e win moto one and Tidwell wen t from .. fourth in moto on e' to take th e win in the nex t two rounds. Mike had it fa ir ly easy an d left th e hassling to Steve Polson and Gallager. Mike took th e overall, Galla ger was second an d Steve Po lson third. Results in Res ults Se ction. t I.D rO"l ..... Junior action at South Bay MX Kenny Frost (500 Prol South Bay's mechanical wizard eats d irt for b reakfast. Division IV 125 Jr. act ion at South Bay. Fo.ur divisions? Holy cow! on his TT 500, after ge t ting beaten by Don Young and Steve Poboy . • Lightweights hold D-37 point run at Elsinore By Andi Gangewer E LSINORE, CA L. , SE PT. 19 A goo d size crowd was raring to go early Sunday mo rn ing at the Lightweight Me's D·3 7 point run. T he Mini Novic e/Amat eur class turned ou t t o be a close battle be tween' Yam ah a mounted Pet e Ham es a nd Chris Cannon. In the rust m oto Cannon sh ot o ff th e line, crashed on the first tu rn , and th e race had to be restar ted. Again Chris got th e ju m p, bu t Pe te Hames, bound a n d d etermined to move in to th e number o ne sp ot, got a foot in th e d oor and Chris cou ld n' t keep him out. Pete divcd u nder Cann on on the back swe epe r and wen t o n to take th e chec kered foll owed by Chris a nd J im Sn ow. Moto two, Pe te bl asted off th e line ju st a sec ond to o soon an d paid the price wh en the ru bber band starte r sn apped ac ross his bare knuckles. The minis lined up aga in a nd Pete' s timi ng was perfect. Hames to ok control but Cannon was crawling up his ba ck e very By James Brammer SAN DIEGO, CAL., SEPT. 22 250 Junior motocross action at South Bay can only be topped by the mult itude of 12 5 Juni ors. It 's difficu lt to describ e the 125 Junior ac t ion . They are separate d in to fo ur divisions to race in eight fo u r-lap eve n Is, usually wi th eigh t different w inners. One division. so me times. holds the 25 0 Junio rs. No less than te n ride rs in that class have peaked at m atch ed sk ill level afte r o ne year's racing. In Wednesda y n igh t 's action, Suz uki riders Chuck T ren t an d Rober t S tone we re at each other for t he lead m o st of the way in both m otos. Bu t one lap short of th c fin ish, in th e se con d moto, Trent ran off th e track at th e finish lin e, and did it again lat er, p u ttin g him o u t of th e money. Br ian Webster had m oved up to third early in the race on Vic's Can-Am, which was reputed t o b e a poor performer. W~bste r unleashed it on the fin al tw o laps ga in ing 50 yar d s to pass Stone for the lead and th e over all win. Hardly anyon e had no t iced he had moved up in the fir st moro from fourth to finis h se cond. A wide margin usually se pa ra tes th e 5 0 0 Intermediates from the seaso ned Professional class rider s when they run toget he r. In term ediate ri de r Max Maple (Su z) gra b be d th e lead o n the start o f th e second 50 0 moto of com bin ed Intermediates a nd Pros. He held it for a third o f the ra ce until eventual winner Kenny Frost (S uz), and only Frost,