Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-28
AIRCRAFT TOURNEY !
TOEND TOMORROW
Frank Salisbury and John
Sullivan Tied in Ace Class
With SO Points Each.

The final contests in the District OF
Columbia Model Aircraft Tournament
win be staged in the mcfarland Junior
High School tomorrow morning, when
the judges will select the District model
aircraft champion. There are no con-
tests today.
The champion and other winners will
be given awards at a banquet luncheon
in the school tomorrow afternoon at
1890 o'clock, at which Mai. Gen. Ma
son NJ. Patrick, U. S. A, retired, former
chief of the Army Air Corps and chair
man of the advisory board of the Dis
trict of Columbia Model Aircraft
League. will preside.
Distinguished flyers who have served
as judges and others who have followed
the events in the 1880 tournament are
to be present. They include Mai. H.
G. Davidson and Lieut. B. M. Myers
OF Boiling Field, Lieut. Frank G.. Daily,
U. S. M. c., from Quantico Lieut.. Col.
C. de r. Chandler, Walter Hinton. VIII
liam o. Tufts, Alva Sole, c. B. Heine-
mann, E. Clayton Fish, E. c. Graham
of the Committee on Awards, Mrs. Ma
fion Wade Doyle, chairman of the Com
mittee on Community Activities of the
Board Of Education, and Assistant Supt
OF Schools Stephen z. Kramer.
Contenders Are Tied.
Frank Salisbury, who established a
world record with rise-off- water model
airplane at Boiling Field Tuesday and
has smashed several other District rec
oros, and John Sullivan, also holder of
several records in the tournament, are
tied with So points each in the Ace
class, from which the District cham
pion Is to be selected. On their re-
spsctive performances tomorrow, it IS
believed, hinges the championship.
Point leaders in other classes in the
class, IS points; Frank Ball, B class, IS
points; Fremont Davis, G class, SO
points, and Harry Heimer and Jack
Friedman, tied, with 10 points each in
. class.
Billie Won Bernewitz. flying in class B.
set new District record for gliders at
Boiling Field yesterday, when his little
craft remained aloft for Al 2-5 Sec
onds, beating out John Sullivan in
the Ace class, whose glider stayed up
for IS 3-5 seconds.
Summary of Events.
The summaries Of the various events,
with the winners in the different classes
In fhe order in which they finished
yesterday and their time in minutes,
seconds and f1fths Of seconds ire as
fellows:
Ace, in helicopter model-Luther
Schmidt, 1:3l.1; Everett Meeks 1:18;
Harry McGinnis, 1892; Robert Towles.
1:s.2, and Lloyd BuSching, AL Qast
time in seconds
A In same-Geerge Shipley. 1:12.1:
Miguel Bautista, 1874, and William
Kennon. S.
B-Blair Bennett, Sill (time in sec
onds): Bob wiehle, 47.2; Billie Won
Bernewitz 42.4; Joseph Blacksmith,
AL, and George Petrides, 36.1.
C-John Mehlig. 1874 seconds: Denny
Williams, 31.3, and Fremont Davis, II.
aud Harry Parker, 20.3.
bury, 1861; John Sullivan, SO: Rob-
ert Towles, 2:5.2: Lloyd Busching. 1872,
and Luther Schmidt, 52.2 Birthplace
time in seconds
A-George Shipley, 2:512. and George
Prank Ball, 40.3 seconds, and
Bernard Won Bernewitz, 9.
C-Fremont Davis, PA seconds.
Ace class in glider-John Sullivan,
35.3 seconds, John Pendleton, 12.4
Harry McGinnis, 10.2: Frank Salisbury,
101. and Luther Schmidt 90.
A-George Shipley, ga seconds, and
George Lefi1eT, So.
Billie Won ,Bernewitz, 4I.2 sec
onds: Frank Ball. ga Bernard Won
Bernewitz, 81, and Blair Bennett, o.
C-Denny Williams, 8.4 seconds;
Fremont Davis, z, and Agamemnon Per-
ros, AS.