Taking the San Bernardino Handicap Main was Don Faulkner.
Mark Cherry defeated Mike Bast in the Scra tch Main at Costa Mesa.
M ike Bast dominated the open ing night action at Ascot Park.
Bobby Schwartz played bridesmaid all week as he racked up a string of second placings.
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Bast's challenger~~
for Number One li
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By Dennis Greene
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SAN BERNARDINO , CA . MAY 17 i
Put one more in the record book
for Mike Bast. He won the Scratch
Main Event on a very fast San
Bernardino track, and agai~7~it
was Bobb y Schw artz pu shing him all
the way to take seco nd pl ace . ju st a few
fee t be hi nd.
Schwartz let it be kn own on ope ning
night that he wants to be Number One
thi s yea r a nd that secon d pla ce ju st
won 't do a nymore . W ith , th e seaso n
still you ng, th e title see ms a long wa y,
but if anyone co u ld d ethrone Bast ,
Schw art z ju st m ight be th e one . 'w
Dennis Sigal os is a no the r top rid er
who will be in t he running for Num ber
One. Dennis picked up a nothe r first-in
th e H andicap Main Event from th o BO yard lin e. Don Faulkner led th e event
for three la ps as Bobb y Schw art z
picked off one rid er a fter a not her-Ito
tak e third from the 50 -yard line.
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Bast fast at long,
new Ascot
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By Dennis Greene
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ASCOT , CA , MAY 18
For the first time since Speedway
wa s reb orn in 1968 , Ascot has
begun running a weekly show on
Thursday nights. There were
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few. if a ny, problems on th e well estab lishe d race trac k . The shbw
sta rted about 8:00 afte r every rider got
two laps of practi ce .
'BJ
The quart er-mil e trac k was a ni:w
experience for most rid ers. but th ey
handl ed it well. The onl y m ishap c;of
the night saw Leni Faa s pile into a
