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su ffered on the last la p of the Ascot Half Mile on Saturday, May 7, it 's made easier by th e fact that he died doing some th in g he loved to do. Since chi ldhood, Boody was a racer. Ted was in his 13th year of AMA Grand N ation al Championship Series co m petition a nd he was one of th e very best. You don 't finish second in th e point standings twi ce by being anything less than that. But second doesn 't pay the finan cial rewards that first does. Boody knew that and although he grew up racing motorcycl es and continued to race them su ccessfull y, h e was looking elsewhere for a living, a living he hoped would enable him to support his famil y in th e yea rs to co me. He would have been 30 on August II of this year, and motorcycle racers know that racing at the top gets increasingl y harder past that age. He wa s sche d u led to meet with Chevron officials th e Monday mornin g a fter that fatal Saturday night crash at Ascot , in ho pes of lin ing up sponsorship for a ra ce car effort. He'd bee n getting his feet wet in the fo urwh eel sport for a co u p le o f years and felt he had th e tal ent to become a winner in the bi g leagues of that form of motorsports just as he was a winner in thebig leagu e two-wheel arenas. Car racing g ives its co m pe titors th e luxury of being able to perform for years past th e p oint when m ot orcycle racer s are co ns idered " too o ld " to be co mpetitive. Boody wa s o ne o f th e genuine "nice guys" o f dirt track racing , a form o f o ur sport th at th rough its sch ool o f hard knocks p roduces mo re appro ach ab le a n d lik eable people th an a ll th e o the r forms o f profess io na l moto rcycle ra cin g p ut . together. Prima donnas don't make it o n th e dirt tra ck circu it. Oh, there h ave been a co u p le o f top rider s wh o th ought they we re a bove w ha t the sp o rt offered. Riders who th ought th ey shouldn ' t be bothered by a fan' s request for a n a u tograp h or a reporter's inquiri es. Wh o thought that th e world o wed th em m ore money, more fam e, more adulation. But for th e most part, th e vast majority of dirt track racer s ar e good peop le. People who pi tch in a nd help a rival in his time of n eed . People who ta ke a moment to say h ello. Peopl e who stand in the hot sun after a race, sweating in th eir lea thers, a nd sign countless autographs. People who return a reporter's phone call. Boody was one of th ose p eople. . I mi ssed T ed 's funeral in Sapulpa, O kl a h o m a , last Thursda y only because the death o f a n associate editor's grandfather and the upcoming weekend 's ra ce schedu le left our manpower co u n t d epleted. Ted would h ave understood. I hope hi s wife T erry, father T ed Sr., in-laws Norm a n d Lucy McD on ald, a n d brothers-in-law Phil a nd Sam McDo na ld understand. My th oughts were with th em even th ough I wa sn ' t. Ted 's two daughters didn 't know me nor I th em , but I trust th at Lindsay a nd Tara will soon know the names o f thousands o f dirt tra ck racing fans through the donations I trust will pour into th e Boody Trust Fund. We'v e been co nt acted by many people who ask ed wh at th ey cou ld do for Ted's family , and to a person they were reli eved to hear that a trust fund had been estab lished. If you saw Ted Boody ra ce, yo u know h e gave it his all. Now it 's your turn to give h is wife and daughters so mething in their time of need. Send your donations to: Boody Trust Fund, Account #015-2603 , Security National Bank, P.O. Box 1290, Sapulpa, OK 74067. Jack Mangus High Sierra'Sports Inc. 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