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Cypress Ave. Burbank, CA91502 213·845·7161 36 By Terry Whytal LAKE WHITNEY , TX, MAR . 12 A good field of 280 riders turned out for Sunday's races whic h were held on a superbly prepared Lake Whitney track, under warm sunny , • Boles bars Dash for Cash dollars skies . I had just dri ven from Cali forni a to sa m p le th e famed tracks of Tex as , and wa s quite p le a sed a t t he organiza tio n o f owne r DeVau gn Mitch ell a nd fam ily who worked as scorekeepers; flagm en a nd sta rte rs. Leadi ng off the day's ac tion were th e Micro Minis with Keith Foyti k's Ital Jet taking the overall ahead of _ the Suzukis of Dennis LeBoeu f and Mike Michet ree, The Mini Junior race saw Carrol Richardson on a Suz uki holding on to the win over Mike Caskey (Suz) and Da ryl LeBoeuf(Yam ). Yamaha rider Bucky Houston cleaned up on the Mini Senior class, with Craig Rid dle (Suz) second and Ma rk Dawson (Suz ) third . Suzuki riders swept the 100cc A class. Da rin Eames ca me in for t he win followed by Ken Joh nson and Ma rk Clark . , . Action in the 100ce B cla ss was provid ed by winner Ronald Dawson (Suz) and sec o nd and th ird pla ce riders David Myres and Mike Pierce , bot h on Yamahas. The 125cc Novice class had so many e ntries t h ey we re . sp li t into two divi sions, Division One winner was Ra ndy. Henshaw (Yam ), followed by Olie J ones (Ya m ) and Ronni e Parker (Su z). Division Two honors went to Yamaha riders Tony N ielsen , first , Mike H a n ce , secon d, and Ra ndy Mansell th ird , . A go od race d evelop ed in th e 250cc Novice class between Yamaha rider R a n d y W ill in gh am an d Kaw asaki mo unted La rry Lockl ea r . Will ingha m fina lly captured the overa ll a head of Lockl ea r , withJ ames Knigh t (Ma i) in ' for third . • After two 500cc Int e rm e d ia t e m o to s, Ro b b ie Pann ell a nd his Bu ltaco ca me u p wit h the overa ll win a head of Sam Womack on a Husky a nd David Ba nt on (Yam). As th e 125cc Expert first mot o got und erw a y , th e main prota gon ist s q u ick ly sho t to th e le ad . Eddie W a lke r , Scan O 'Brie n a nd David Jones, a ll rid ing Suzuki s, fou ght for th e lead . At th e chec kers first was W a lker th en O 'Bri en a nd Jones. 1 de runed m yself halfw a y through lh e rnoto by ce nterpunc hi ng a fe nce , and . sat out t he remai nder of the race so l could chat wit h the amb u la nce crew. In t he second moro Da vid J one: shifted into high gear and bea t Wa lker and O ' Brien, but wirh a 3-1 score had to sett le for second be hi nd W alk er's J2 finish . O ' Brien was third . Ma ico rider Bob by Pickard won both 250cc Expert mot os, but not wit hou t a figh t fro m Da vid Stutts on a Ya,!,a ha , and Da vid Boles rid ing a MalCO. Stu tts a nd Boles both ma de cha rges at t he lea d b ut co u ld n't hold t hr- pace and event ua lly faded hack . Pick a rd too k hom e t he first pla c~ monev with Stu tts seco nd and Bol s th ird .' Wh e n the gate droppe d for t 500cc Expert ra,ce, Boles j u m ped ~ to rh« lead ahead of Picka rd and Stu t ts La p after la p Picka rd tr ied to find ;, way around Boles and the two opened up a hig lead on th e rest of the field . Pickard finall y got Boles a nd th e finishi ng ord er was Pickard . Boles a nd Stutts. Pickard wasu-d no time grahbing th e lead in the secon d moto but Boles was right on his rail . wait ing for mistak e that never ca me. For the seco nd tim,' tha t dav Picka rd won rh ' overal l but this tim,: Boles took second and Stutts was t hird . Raccd av ended with a mad Dash for Cash. Fifty dollars went 10 th e win ner with three laps to do it. Only a e~ riders went for it but it was wild anyway as Picka rd crashed in the first lap a~d J ones on his 125 p ut on a despera te lasr-Iap cha rge that nearl y sent hi m into the scoring sta nd . David Boles held on a nd fina lly got rhe win he was looking for a ll d ay. Resu lts in Results Sect ion . a Magoo pulverizes Pittsburg MX C By Ben Johnson PITTSBURG , KS, MA R. 12 ) Starting off his tour of the Mid west . Danny " Magoo" Chand ler' stopped at th e Pittsburg m oto cross to pocket th e lion 's sh are 0 , Sund ay's SIOO Pro p urse . Ab oard O new trio of Su zuk is, Magoo swept six.