From The Muscatine Journal, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 1967
Mosier, Moss Win in Car Races
by Sports Editor, Harold Blake
Top men in the Mississippi Valley Speedway Club won a race apiece on a double Labor Day weekend program at two tracks.
Point leader Mark Mosier took the race Saturday night at Columbus Junction, but had his double victory bid nipped by Johnny Moss of Iowa City on the last lap of the main event at West Liberty on Monday afternoon.
Mosier lead most of the way on an accident-packed feature at the Liberty track. Once Moss slipped into the lead coming in the homestrech but he lost it because of a restart in a mishap behind them.
The battle between Moss and Mosier continued though a half dozen restarts. Then on the final lap Moss go by Mosier on the inside as cars came down to the checkered flag.
No injuries resulted from the numerous pile-ups, but they took a heavy toll on the machinery. Most spectacular of the mishaps was one in which the cars of Tom Harris of Iowa City, Mel Morris of West Liberty and Bill Neuman of Burlington became entangled.
The the auto of Dave Dodder of Letts took a hard roll on the backstretch as it came into the collection of wrecked vehicles. The car of Harris was demolished and the auto of Neuman was smacked badly on the passenger side. Neuman re entered the race after missing two laps but did not finish in the top 10.
The near capacity crowd watched the afternoon program on a track with which the sun gave officials moisture problems. Water applied before the races dried up quickly, making it very dusty. More water was sprayed several times helping the dust problem but making the oval hard and slippery.
At Columbus Junction on Saturday night, Bud Darting of Wilton suffered cracked ribs in a one car mishap. He was examined at the hospital after his auto plunged off the number 3 turn.
A pair of 50 lap season championship races are on tap the next two Saturday nights. The first at West Liberty and the second at Columbus Junction.
RESULTS
AT COLUMBUS JUNCTION
FASTEST QUALIFIERS- 1. Mel Morris, West Liberty 28.84 2. Mark Mosier, Washington 28.94 3. John Mullink, West Liberty 29.14 4. Bill Neuman, Burlington 29.20 5. John Moss, Iowa City 29.42
TROPHY DASH- Jimmy Mitchell, Burlington
FIRST HEAT- 1. Ralph Ericson, Lockridge, 2. Moss 3. Mullink 4. Bud Darting, Wilton
SECOND HEAT- 1. Mosier 2. Ron Hemstead, Lone Tree, 3. Stan Crooks, Letts, 4. Ron Prymek, Iowa City
THIRD HEAT- 1. Neuman 2. Leroy Stutzman, Lockridge 3. Bob Smith, Mt Pleasant 4. Jerry Onnen, Muscatine
SEMI MAIN- 1. Mitchell, 2. Larry Jenkins, Wilton, 3. Bill Douglas, West Liberty, 4. Justin Blake, Letts
FEATURE- 1. Mosier, 2. Ericson, 3. Morris, 4. Mullink, 5. Crooks, 6. Moss, 7. Neuman, 8.Stutzman, 9. Prymek, 10. Jenkins
AT WEST LIBERTY
FASTEST QUALIFIERS- 1. Mark Mosier, Washingon, 27.12 2. John Mullink, West Liberty 27.36, 3. Mel Morris, West Liberty 27.56, 4. Bill Neuman, Burlington 27.58. 5. John Moss, Iowa City 27.86
TROPHY DASH- Jerry Musgrove, Muscatine
1ST HEAT- 1. Mosier, 2. Ron Hemstead, Lone Tree, 3. Ora Pearson, Iowa City 4. Mike Niffenger, Kalona
2ND HEAT- 1. Bob Helm, Tipton 2. Tom Harris, Iowa City, 3. Muillink, 4. Bill Hopp, Muscatine
3RD HEAT- 1. Stan Crooks, Letts, 2. Bob Smith, Mount Pleasant, 3. Bill Grelle, Iowa City 4. Don Morgan, Muscatine
4TH HEAT- 1. Neuman 2. Ralph Ericson, Mount Pleasant, 3. Leroy Stutzman, Lockridge, 4. Ron Prymek, Iowa City
SEMI MAIN- 1. Moss, 2. Morris, 3. Jerry Onnen, Muscatine 4. Ike Hahn, Muscatine
FEATURE- 1. Moss, 2. Mosier, 3. Mullink, 4. Helm, 5. Hopp, 6. Ericson, 7. Prymek, 8. Morris, 9. Morgan, 10. Grelle