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1952
Dick
Beauregard wins Sportsmen Championship
Johnny
Sandberg and Curly LeMay tie for Claiming Car title

United
Stock Car Championship
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3-time
winner Dick Beauregard was
declared Sportsmen Champion after driving several different cars to
the driver points title. Freddie
Luchesi led the division in wins with 9. Don
Collins had 7 including a 50-lapper in Cy
Yates (2), Mike Ward
and Jim Holt won the other
regularly scheduled 50 lap special events.
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Track
Management continued to incorporate new ideas to the racing
cards. During July, the first Modified
Team Race was held. Winners of the inaugural event
was the team of George Clark and Mike
Ward. According to John Brouwer Sr's A Racing
History of the New London-Waterford Speedbowl, Ed
Flemke finished second driving two separate cars.
During early September, the first ever Mad
Cap event was held. Formatted as twin 50 features
with an overall event winner based on best avg finish between the two
declared. Cy Yates and
Ray Delisle won the 2 features while Yates and Dick
Beauregard were declared co-winners as the both finished
with the same amount of points. The Mad Cap format was revived
in 2006 as the Double Down Shootout.
Other events included a "back-up" race among junk-yard cars
was run on July 29th, but ruled to dangerous afterwards and never held
again.
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The
AAA Midgets returned in July with a 50 lap event won by Johnny
Bernardi. The Late Model event also returned in
August billed as the New Car 100. George
Clark, co-winner of the Modified Team Race, took home the
checkereds
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