mile National
Palmgren. He joined brothers Larry
and Denny as a spectator.
Third heat provided some fireworks
from a dice between former Grand
National Champion Gary Scott, who is
. making a -Iate season charge up into
the top of the point standings, and
Ted Davidson. Davidson and his
Harley battled with Scott and his Evel
Knievel Harley, with veteran Scott
.., taking the win . Pennsylvanian Billy
Schaeffer and his Harley took third.
Steve Morehead "fried the clutch"
and dropped out of the hea t on the
third lap:
..
Missed by many, who were watching
the Scott/Ingram duel. was the ride
turned in by George Richtmeyer.
Rich tm eyer finis hed sixth be hind the
front th ree and Skip Aksland and Rich
s.
Hock ing, but he pu lled off every save
in the book to keep his Yamaha on its
wheels . He nearly jumped off in turn
three on an early la p , but somehow
; tayed on only to tick the wall corning
t ou t of uurn two on the next lap. He
had his sponsor grimacing.
The final heat turned 'in to a threeman duel in the middle between Steve
I ·
Freeman , Ted - Bood y, and Men
Lawwill. Freeman pulled off the
holeshot and led the X Rs of former
National Champion Mert Lawwill and
Harley factory rider Ted Boody the
entire 10 laps: But the fight for second
wasn't decided until Lawwill went too
high after trying to stuff it under
Freeman. That slip let Boody by for
second with Mert hanging on to third .
Gene Romero, who finished fifth ,
observed the one-line track with a grin
and said, "Boy, starts are really
important here, aren't they?"
Semis - two for the show
-,W ith just the winner of each of the
two lO-lap semis advancing to the
main, two Pen nsylva nia ns left no
doubt who those two wou ld be. First ,
Billy Eves, ran away with his race ,
leaving Terry Poovey and Ra nd y Goss
to scrap for second. Poovey got it.
Then Will ie Crabbe, who had all but
. stopped on the 'second lap of his heat
race, pulled a holeshot and a half,
only to be greeted with a red flag as he
led the field out of turn four , That
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(left> Ingram again. on his w ay to 11th. while Keener (62) looks f9r a way
.: around. (Above) Gene Romero pulls this train while David (24) puts the Rush
on. (Below) Freeman holds a couple of length s ~n Lawwill.
