Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-01
JUNIOR AERONAUTS
PREPARE FOR MEET
Model Aircraft Tournament
Scheduled for Three Days
This Week.

Members Of the Districts junior aero
nautical world are putting the finishing
touches on their tiny model aircraft in
preparation for the second annual mod
ell aircraft tournament to be staged here
Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
The Mcfarland Junior High School
auditorium will be transformed into a
miniature airdrome Tuesday morning
at $50 O'Clock, when the junior flyers
will compete in tue first phase Of the
tournament. Many pilots from nearby
Maryland and Virginia have entered
their ships in the finals.
Sixteen contests are scheduled for the
annual meet, which Is held under the
auspices of the District Model Aircraft
League, sponsored by the Community
Center Department Of Public Schools.
2O3 Have Qualified.
Two hundred boys and three girls
now have qualified for the indoor and
outdoor phases of the tournament, fol-
lowing the conclusion of meets leading
up to the finals. OF this number OF
flyers those holding the highest records
in the various classes will be certified
by the C.icials here to the national COM
mittee as eligible to compete in the
finals of the third national playground
miniature aircraft tournament, to be
held in Louisville, KY, october 10
and 10.
Especial interest is attached to the
winning of the Committee Cup, offered
to that club in the District whose men,
bers total the greatest number Of points
throughout all Of the contests Of the
present season, which ends Friday at
Mcfarland Community Center, when
he In re
will be staged.
All outdoor events will be held We'd
nesday morning at Boiling Field at $3.50
o'clock.
At present l6 pilots Of the Chevy
Chase Aero Club are leading in the race
for the Committee Cup, having collected
562 points. The Capitol Model Aero
Club, with nine flyers, Is second with
276 points.
+ Three Leading Pilots.
Leading point winners to date in the
Chevy Chase Club are Robert Swope,
with Ill points; Douglas Bruce, SO, and
Donald Bruce, with IS points.
Junior flyers with the Capitol Model
Aero Club who have collected points are
Frank Salisbury with 101; and Herbert
Dorsey who has aggregated II points.
Another high spot which the model
craft pilots are looking forward to is
the race for the Gen. Patrick Tro-
with 1t the championship of the Dis
trtct of Columbia. This beautiful tro-
ply will be awarded TO the ACE" or
member Of Glass A who wins the high
est number Of points in the tourna-
ment.
The nine aces who have qualified to
compete for the Patrick Trophy are
Herbert Dorsey, Ohio williams, Douglas
Bruce, John Sullivan, George Bell,
Donald Bruce, Everett Meeks, Robert
Towles, and Luther Schmidt. Those
flyers in Glass A who also will fight
for the trophy are Lloyd Fish, Ernest
Stout. Robert Starkey, william Street,
Frank Salisbury, Joe Galliher, John
Honeycut, Bert Brooks and Robert
Swope
First. second and third place winners
will be given gold, silver and bronze
medals, respectively, in all classes, COM
prising 81 medals in all.
Duration Trophies.
The maximum duration" awards in
clude four silver cups, known as the
Aero Club of Washington Trophy. The
Exchange Club Trophy, the E. c. Ora
ham Trophy, and the r. Harris Tro-
ply. These cups will go to flyers in
Glasses Ace, A. B and C. respectively,
who achieve the greatest duration in
all flights in the tournament. Pilots
in classes D, E and F who achieve the
necessary duration will receive awards
of commercial kits donated by the
| Capitol Model Aero Supply House and
also copies of Paul Edward CARRIERS
book on Building and Flying Model
Aircraft"
The judges for the tournament as
announced by the committee on judges
headed by Lieut.. Walter Hinton, trans
atlantic flyer, include Maj. H. c. Da-
wilson, U. S. Army Air Corps, COM
mandant Boiling Field; Lieut. Bushrod
Hoppin, u s. Army Air Corps; Lieut.
Lester Maitland, U. 8. A.; Lawrence
Williams. chairman, aeronautic COM
mittee, Board Of Trade: Paul Edward
CARRIER, authority on miniature air
craft.
Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick is chair
man of the advisory board for the
tournament, and Joshua Evans, jr., is
treasurer The committee on awards
| includes Lieut.. Col. c. Def. Chandler
e. c. Graham, and Starr Truscott; the
committee on rules includes Paul Ed
ward CARRIER, Luke Christopher, and
J. H. Williams.
During the recent tie-up Of the
Siberian Railway 1000 carloads OF