Arizona republican., 1919-06-26
WHIRIWIHD ENl 0T TOURNAMENT
 DRIVE IS HERE
Tickets Sell Fast - Cam paign to Culminate ill Huge Meeting Tomorrow Night-An All-Star Pro gram

With the general ticket selling cam paign to end tomorrow night, the Frank Luke Air Memorial Tournament aroused the greatest excitement since it's inception, yesterday. Tickets sold more readily, and workers worked more energetically, And last night it was an assured fact that an unknown num- Der of thousands of people would be at the state fair grounds for the great est spectacle Phoenix has ever seen.
 Residential and business districts were alike covered in a fast campaign yesterday. More than a score of wO- men in motor cars started early in the morning for a campaign through the residence districts and they were joined immediately by several teams of high school alumni workers At the same time more alumni workers went out to recomb the business district.
 No complete report was available last night, but every indication was that the tickets were going faster than eyer, and that workers were working harder than ever Only few boxes for the tournament remain but there will be plenty of tickets to go around to everybody. The ticket selling drive will go on with the same energy today and tomorrow
 Mass Meeting Friday Night . Tomorrow night will mark the pre- liminary of the tournament. and the whirlwind finish of the ticket cam paign, at the big mass meeting at First avenue and Adams A Fokker airplane, captured from the Huns but to be flown by an American pilot dur ing the tournament Saturday night, will be on exhibition on First avenue flanked by two bands in trucks, and the avenue will be closed between Washington and Adams to permit ample room for the crowds Miss Mar guerita Fischer film star who will ar rive tomorrow for the tournament, will appear at The meeting, and a great program is promised
 With every plan completed for the tournament, only a record crowd is needed to make the tournament Satur- day night the biggest success in the history of the state. The official pro- gram will start at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon, and from that time until g o'clock every minute will be crowded with action. Ten big events-each thrilling enough for an entire per tormance-are on the program, includ Ing memorial addresses, music by sing CTS as well as maSSed bands, airplane- motor car racing, stunt and formation flying by an aerial fleet from Rockwell Field, and a war talk by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker himself
 One Ace to Honor Another
 Captain Rickenbacker will be easily Inc individual star of the tournament he greatest American ace come to pay -ubute to another great American ace whom death checked in his rush tc further heights of glory Captain ilckenbacker is at present in Los An yeles, where, at a reception in his honol Monday night he paid stirring tribute 10 Lieut.. Frank Luke, calling him "the greatest airman of them all" and the wild man of the air It is Lieut.. Luke and the other fallen heroes of the county whom Captain Rickenbackel and all who participate and attend tho tournament will honor
 Captain Rickenbacker will not ar. rive in this city until Saturday ant will have to break several arrange ments to come at all Miss FischeI will arrive Friday. as will the arm, airplane squadron from the coast.