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• SPEEDWAY ""EEK Alan Christ ian and Shawn Moran tang le in the San Bernardino turf. IAbove) Bobby Schwartz !inside) still races w ith a cast and protective cover on his broken wrist. Gene Woods takes the outside. IBelow) Northern California 's John Cook was !lot at Ascot Speedway. J oe Meylor, win ner of th e Ha nd ica p Ma in la st wee k a t Ascot . won t he Divisio n Two Ma in Event. And ro und ing out a fai r night of racing . Jeff T omlin took th e gol d in Division Th ree. Cook nips Lindwall at Ascot By Dennis Greene GA~DENA, CA , SEPT, 7 oN Joh n Cook, the hot dog from the North, put it to t he South in the Scratch Main when front ru nner Louis Lindwall backed off in the IAbove) The contro versial contact of Sonny Nutter and Alan Christian at Costa Mesa, and the Costa Mesa header by Jan Ballard lbelow) . Sigalos, Preston top San Berdoo By Den nis Greene , SAN BERNARDINO , CA , SEPT , 6 The rains came and went , leaving a soft track behind for a more than tricky night of racing . As the night went on and large ho les 18 sta rted to show up , it became harder and harder t o pick the rig h t lin e through the turns . For those wh o gu essed wrong , th ere was the crash wall 10 show them th e way, others JUSt sp un out. Dennis Sigalos found by riding right on the pole , he could get away fro m the holes a nd win the Ha ndi cap Ma in , Ron Preston worked it ju st th e othe r way, He rode right up aga inst the cra sh wall in th e Scrat ch Main, keeping Gen e Woods back while Bob Schwartz , sti ll with a cast on, hung in th ere for th ird . Joh n Sandona , in his first Scratch Main , took fourth . closi ng feet of the checkered flag lap. Joe Meylor , last week' s winner of th e Handicap Main , in his first ever Scr a tch ride took third, with Bob McLain rounding out the field . Me ylor got another ' shot at the Handicap Ma in, but was no m atch for Tom Ferris. Even though he took last, Wayne Ishii was the crowd's hero. It was his first night in Division One and he had won his heat race . One m or e new name in th e Second Division. Keith La rson , won his first Ma in . Costa Mesa: Two more for Christian By Dennis Greene COSTA MESA. CA . SEPT. 8 Just last week, Alan Christian became the first rider this year to win both the Scratch and Handicap Main Events on the sam e ni ght. That was at San Bernard ino . Would you bel ieve he did it aga in, th is time a t Costa Mesa? His win in t he Handicap Main was not a popular on e wit h the fans. The ra ce was stoppe d in the first lap when Dan McNeill c ras he d into Den n is Sigalos. Dan was sent back 10 th e pits for being the ca use of the crash and Dennis wa s not allowed to restart because th e rule book says in so many