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with mini -madness captured by Troy Barazoto and Rick Olson. Results in Results Section. Anderson, Elledge, Binckley frost Winter Series opener BySue Sykes PUYALLUP , WA ,JAN. 8 Puyallu p Racewa y Park's 10race Winter Series of Motocross opened with Pro class winners Jim Anderson, Blaine Elledge and Rich Binckley earning shares of the $500 event purse. In all , $8500 worth of cash and prizes are up for grabs in the Continental Mote-sport Club (CMC) sanctioned series. Prizes are being donated by Preston Petty Products. Hi -P oint Boots, Pro-Tee , FTF , Justice Brothers and Rei d 's Super Cap Tires . Vancouver Suzuki's Jim Anders on topped th e 125cc Pro race with a 2-1 score after Pat Jacobson , riding a Suzuki , wo n the opening m oto. Jacobson worked his way up in round two for second overall. Husk y-mounted Bla ine Elledge showed up for a workout in th e 250c!= Pro race befor e hitting th e trail to Florida . Pat Jacobson. this time on a n RM250 Su zuki , picked his second number two sp ot of the afternoon. Phil Larson , 1977 Mini Ex p ert Number One Plate holder, worked his Bellevue Su zuki in to a 4 -2 third placing. In the biggest class of the day - th e Open Pros - Rich Binckley topped T om Poage a nd Buck Murphy. It was good to see "0 1' Buck" back on the Pu yallup t rack riding a four -stroke H onda o u t of Tacoma's Hi ghl a n d Honda . Results in Results Section. Old Timers swim at . Spillway MX By Betty Bird SANTA MARIA , CA ,JAN . 8 American Motocross Enterprises (AME) hosted 30 Old Timers at Spillway Park. Track prep was needed on Friday to drain and push ou t two weeks ' wort h of rain a nd to re shape Spillway's sand tra ck . Saturday th e su n and bright blu e skies helped - leaving on ly a few mudlioles and one area now named Lew is Lake! The first of two 20 -m inute motos sta rted off with Blackie Lewis leading the troops. Lewis, getting all kinds of traction, came out of th e last turn next to the pit area and straight into a 20 ' by 40 ' by 3' d eep mud and water hole, He was heard yelling, " Maico swim , Maico swim." Master Richard Lyons stayed on th e track and went into first place. Lewis , draining his leathers , came back in the second race to take a second overall . with . Cal Browning's first ra ce as a Master good for third. Cal had problems withhis endurance. Seems that over the holidays he sat for . severa l days wat ching football games and putting a way 16 p ounds of peanuts, et c. Dick Fr ampton of the Expert class kept his mind on ra cing for the first race of the year with a solid gold back to -back win. Art McNamee was second and Ed Scheidl er third . Jerry Sco tt has a m ystery on his ha nds - How d id St. N ick get a 400 Ma ico down the chimney? H e can understand the long red MX socks and new gloves. The Ama teur class found J o h n W ebb in for his first win of th e brand new ra cing season . Jack Hurley too k his Suzie for a sandy t hum pi ng in second. and Leonard Sciacca grabbed th ird . Robert Beasley is a sk ing the question "How d id I get fr om the Christmas party in 1977 to first -place Novice at Sp illwa y in 1978 ?" H ang in th er e Bob , it will come to you l Roger R oessler's 1-2 was good for secon d overall. Mont e James gunned it to th ird. Results in Results Section. FMX PISTONS HONDA GL-1000 RING & PINION 4.0:1 RATIO ,Your biggestperformance gain for the Gold Wing $169.95 list. New Year's Constitutional Catastrophe By VELO CITY STACKS GAUGES FASTENERS HA RDWAR E TuGeeEnterprisesInc. w. H. Spencer 731 EA ST CYPRESS . M ONROVIA. CALIFORNIA 91016 (21 3) 359-2415CUPERTINO , CA ,JAN. 1 Each New Year's Day Dan and Jim Clapp have themselves a festive run in the foothills above Los Altos/Cupertino and for the third stra igh t yea r , it has b een set around the First Amendment of th e Constitution . Tha t is the righ t to assemble and do you r politic a l thing. Dan Cla p p is a la wyer as well as a motor cyclist, meaning th is becomes mor e than j ust a fun run , where the politicia n comes ou t in all . Meeting a t Denny's at eight in th e mornin g , the good ole motorcyle bo ys saw riders th ey haven't seen in m onths. Booboo Bob Scally came out of retir em ent for a day of mud slinging , Ri ck Hocking and ' hi s e n to u ra ge appeared alo ng with Chris Carter , John Gennai an d over 100 others. T he surprise en try was Brad L ackey, a long with Bill Ca licura. The local p olic e showed up . am azed at ho w organized th e unorganized are . They even le n t sup port in crossing th e Ex pressway by holding up traffic! After 10 days of raining the tracti on was th e gre a test. The cre w arrived a t th e Voss Quarry behind th e Ka iserPermante plant and within a n hour the political meeting was a ir ed , ra cers briefed on clean -up and lined up for an engi ne -ru nni ng sta rt. Less than 200 ya rds off the lin e, th e course ran up a steep , narrow bank and only about a dozen cleared it . The other 200 formed the bottleneck of th e year, worse than the biggest Harrod's sale, Hocking. Jim Filice, Carter, Ga ry Vanderpool and a few others were off following Rich Voss and Pat Brown, who practice on this course about every day. It was a surprise when the duo came around about one minute ahead of Carter and Vanderpool. Vanderpool was ou t to show how he got #1 in Cross Country and led the Yamaha ISOT rider by a few feet. The rest of the motocross pack was another minute behind. Leads lengthened on th e next loop , with Brown leading Voss , but both were nearly two minutes ahead of Vanderpool' s Husky, with Carter lost in th e seizure p it. John Gennai m oved his TT 500 into fourth over J ohn Silva . The first lightweight was Jim Dieu on th e Hayward Yamaha IT 175 . Bob Scally and J im Rice were ha ving their own duel. Many wer e just thinking about going home to tell their buddies how DEA LERS - CALL OR WR IT E FO R LAT EST CATALOG MORE POWER FOR .12515 MOT0-X FOX now has available to you the same pipe PAT RICHTER used on th e 125 National Championship Circuit. Pat was Top American at the 125 U.S. Grand Prix with this pipe, and FRANK STACY in his first MOTO-X FOX sponsored ride took 3rd American placing. This pipe not only sets new standards, it works! #34-1730 $84.95 Also available, 34mm Mikuni Carb Kit for RM 1256. with extra jets included. ~1 $39.95 California residents add sales tax . 520 MCGLINCY LANE • • CAMPBELL. 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