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1957 Marlboro Maryland Motorcycle Road Race - 1-Page Vintage Article
Original, Vintage Magazine articleSize: Approx. 8\" x 11\" (21 cm x 28 cm)Condition: Good
Race DayAtMarlboroMaryland Road RaceCourse Being GroomedFor Classic LaborDay Weekend Races
THE NEW 1.8 mile paved Marlbororoad course opened to a 65-ridermotorcycle card on Sunday, June 9,after a few anxious moments as towhether rain would halt proceedings.The B races got off to a roaringstart. Bob Huntley, in the lead wentdown on a hairpin turn, and was clip-ped by the next rider, who also wentdown. Then, bang, bang, two otherriders, a little further on the course,went into a retaining wall. The racewas quickly halted by Cam Dailey—who was doing a beautiful job at an-nouncing.Then, another heat, and in a left-and-right hairpin, Jim McMurry, of StatenIsland, N. Y., went down. Jim hadplenty of pavement rash, and a crackedrib. Big Jim is tough, tho, and insistedthat his leathers be taken off, not cut,and despite the pain, his leathers cameoff intact. Jim was discharged from thehospital, and went on his way home,saying he’d be ready for Laconia—thebig one.Another B race, and the leader, lapafter lap was the winner of the Jarvis,Canada, road race, popular Joe De-Simone. Joe had a big lead. All of asudden, Joe held up his arm—troublewith his bike. He coasted to a stop, andwas out of the race.This left the field to Al Lewis—andLewis won the final, shoving his BSAaround the course in a fast time of14:35:25. Wilfried Furlong, BSA, tooksecond. Al Fisher, Triumph, who hadbeen involved with the spill of an earli-er heat, came in a fast third.Tough luck hit Seed Hedgecock, two-time winner of the Marlboro course,when he was forced out with bentpushrods. Four-time winner TommyMcDermott had a sick engine, butfinished. Class A final winner WarrenWolfe, BSA, toured the course in 14:-00:96—a record, since it’s a new course.Second was Eddie Fisher (he’s ridingagain, and fast) on a Triumph. TommyMcDermott, BSA, managed to have hisbike last out for a third. Warren Sher-wood, BSA was fourth and Jack Ches-ter, now riding a Lou Piper-tuned Tri-umph, was fifth.There was a good crowd, despite thethreat of rain. A feature lightweightexhibition (looking forward to sanc-tioned lightweight races) saw a groupof riders giving the crowd a thrill withtheir little bikes. Rod Coates, TriumphCub; Cliff Guild, Triumph Terrier; BillIrwin, Maico; Bob Myers, Maico; DaleRhode, Triumph Cub; Walt McQueen,Maico; Rocky Ross, Mustang; ClydeCurtis, Mustang; Hal Burton, Jawa,were among the lightweight expon-ents touring a four-lap tryout. RodCoates and Cliff Guild recently wontheir classes in the Canadian Cham-pionship at Jarvis, Ontario.Cam Dailey, race manager, has askedfor lightweight sanction for futureMarlboro events.Bob Rudy, District AMA Referee,started the practices with a crowd-pleasing ceremony, somewhat like thatof Indianapolis. He led the riders for afull tour of the track, using a sidecarfor a pace car, with himself astride abeautiful BMW. It was an impressivesight.Ray Pitcock and Robert Markey plac-ed second and third in the expert semi-finals. B riders who placed were War-ren DeLong, Charles Kuster, Bill Shel-ly and Eddie LaBelle.The Labor Day Tobacco Trail Classicat Marlboro will have a full card ofexperts. The June 9 preliminary race,so to speak, had competition from theHeidelberg dirt track — one of theworld’s fastest, hence some of the hot-shoe boys such as Wilkins and Brig-ance probably passed up a road racein preference to a flat track.Marlboro, say the boys who know,is probably the best road race coursein North America. Even the sports carcrowd seem to agree. Uphill slopes,lefts and rights thru trees, longstraights, a few hairpins, a fast chic-ane, good paving, wide course, wellswept, good course marshalling — alladd up to a course to rival any there is.Not yet with the glamor and appeal ofLaconia—Marlboro is bound to gain inimportance, owning to a far-sightedmanagerial program, solid advertising,local support of fans, and nationwidesupport of expert riders.Marlboro got radio and newspaperpublicity greater than ever seen beforein this area for a motorcycle race,thanks to Cam Dailey and to the capi-tal’s number one publicist, Joe Holman.Joe Holman, by the way, was recentlyawarded a testimonial dinner by theNational Press Club bigwigs, as thetop public relations man of the nationalcapital—and he’s a good man to haveinterested in motorcycles.The Marlboro course, on Highway301, called the Tobacco Trail, is actual-ly on the ground of the old tobaccotrail, where large barrels of tobaccowere rolled along to market. The coursehas been fixed up with a few escaperoutes, with high sand barriers for pro-tection, with a sweeping machine, witha new press box, and with new comfortfacilities.The parts of the course that runthru the trees, the long sweepingcurves, the long straights, make forgood audience interest as well as topspeed. The Labor Day 25-star event al-ready has a large entry list, which, to-gether with the scrambles, hill climb,lightweight races, and drags to be heldas part of the three-day motorcyclefair, should please all who attend.ACTION AT MARLBORO—BSA mounted Joe De-Simone races around the all-paved road racecourse.ROD COATES with his Triumph Cub, winner ofJarvis, Ontario, road race two years in a row,gets ready for exhbition race.Also on page: Mechanical coin-operated kids motorcycle ride:
FOR JUNIOR ‘HOTSHOES’HERE’S A coin-operated device thatshould find wide acceptance amongmotorcycle dealers. Not only does it al-low “dad” to do his motorcycle shop-ping uninterupted, but also gives thedealer additional income. Operated bythe insertion of a dime, this scaleddown motorcycle has a speedometei\'that actually works, a siren, handbrake, throttle control, etc. Riding timeis adjustable at intervals from 45 sec-onds to three minutes. For further in-formation write: Bally ManufacturingCo., Dept. M, 2640 Belmont Ave., Chi-cago 18, Ill.11274-5708-02