Evening star., 1924-09-23
THREE D. c. PILOTS
TO RACE IN DAYTON
Lieuts. Beau, Steinmetz and
Duke Entered in Inter-
national Events.

Three Washington Army Pilots.
Iieuts. l.. V. Beau, ir.. and &. w.
SjeInmetz Of Boiling Field, and II. G.,
Duke Of the office OF chief of Ar
: rNicr. are among the officers who
v-i'l a. = 49,. International air races
open to military aircraft which will
n. a.. - ,I 49, con, ohio, the first
week of October, according to an an
Houncement. today by the Army Air
Service.
These officers and ne others will
fly in the liberty engine builders
race scheduled for October >. The
planes viii be tWo-place observation
types-De HaviIands and Fokker
Corps observations and viii have a
speed of more than 40 miles per hour.
The course will he tor $50 miles
pthtr pilots entered are Mai. &. L..
Tinker. Fort Riley, kdnS.; LieutS. L..
i. Brown. jr.. until recently chairman
OF the world II ght committee here
and now III command Of the Boston
Airport: l.. +. Rohzieu Cha nlte Field
IA. J. Y. Haddon. Brooks Field. Tex:
L. -. knapp, Maxwell Fled: {. A.
Cover. Fairfield. Ohio: \. i. Simonin
M"uhdsvi le. W. Va: Rex X. Stoner.
Langley Field, Va, and l.. \. Wal
thai, Fort Bragg.
High Qualifying speed.
There are only three entrants for
the Pulitzer trophy for high speed
riancs-Capt. Burt L. Skeel of Sell
fridge Field, Mount Clemens. Mich. +:
Lieut.. Wendell H. Brookley of Nc
Cook Field, Dayton. and Lieut.. Ii.
II. Mills of Fairfield. ohio-all Army
officers. Capt. Skeci and Lieut..
Erookley will fly Army CurtisS racers
and Lieut. Mills will be in d Verville
Sp"rry mouoplanc. This race. to b."
flown October I, over a 200-kiloneter
course. calls for a qualifying speed
of 10 miles per hour.
The third important event for
military aircraft will be for large
capacity planes carrying a pay load
OF 1000 pounds or more, with
Qualifying speed of more than So
miles specified and over a course Of
10 miles. 1t will be for the Dayton
chamber of commerce trophy and
will be flown October ).
The pilots who will fly bombing
type ships are: LieutS. II. y. Smith,
Langley Field. Virginia; G.. C. Ken
my, McCook Field, Dayton; J. ID. Bar
ker and II. NJ. Myers. Phillips Field,
Aberdeen, Md; G. r. Woolsey and
HeZ Mcclellan. Brooks Field, Texa :
l.. j. Cantield, Kelly Field. Texas, ana
STAFF SerSt. l.. +. Hudson, Phillips
Fi-ld, Maryland.
Navy Not i'm Races.
HIIots of the 1St Pursuit Group.
Ss'fridge Field, Mich, will fly in the
l"in l.. Mitchell trophy race. Octo-
ber 4. The prizes for this contest
have been donated by Brig. Gen. Will
liam Mitchell, assistant chief of the
Air :. rvice. in memory of his broth
rr. who was killed in France. Cur
tSs pursuit planes of the type with
which Lieut.. K. l.. Vaughan carried
out his dawn-to- darkness flight from
New York to San Francisco have been
entered for the 200 -kilometer course.
The ContenderS Will be chosen from
Lieuts. q. Z. Tourtellot, T. h. Mat
thews, T.. G. Whitehead, K. G. Moffat,
T. w. Black burn. l.. c. Hurd, J. T.
Johnson, Cyrus Bettis, J. d. Sum-
mtrS, f. II. Ieager and u. F.. Stage
The Navy will not be represented
at the races with entrants, decision
having been made last year to with
draw from racing contests, with the
exec ption of the international Schhei-
def scaplane meet. which will he held
= R"Itimore the latter part of next
month.