Evening star., 1932-09-04
.D00L|TTLE BREAKS
MARK AT 2S M. P. H.
EcIipses on Three -Kilometer
Course Bonnett's Eight
Year-Old Record.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
| CLEVELAND, Ohio. September 3-A
new land plane speed king was crowned
today at the National Air Races as Maj.
James H. Doolittle blistered over q
3-kilometer course at an average Of
| 296.237 miles an hour.
| Eclipsing the .eight-year- record
of Warrant Oficer Bonnet of France
by 17.807 miles an hour, the st. Louis
flyer blazed his snub-nosed plane six
times over the straightaway and took
the best four consecutive laps for his
high average.
He carried a sealed Paragraph and
his only doubt of not making an official
record lay in a pull-up from the course
at the beginning Of his runs when a
formation Of Army planes crossed his
path to land.
Washington OK. Needed.
| His record may only be stamped as
| official after the instrument is calibrated
| in Washington and the flight report
homologated by the Federation Aero
nautique Internationale, world govern
ing aviation sport body in Paris.
| The lap speeds were clocked at
2e3047, 287.154, 800 040, 281 .966, 306.s9
and 283156 miles an hour, the average
Of the second to fifth dashes, inclusive,
being taken as the new mark.
THE plane used by Mai. Doolittle in
his world record run is Gee Bee super
sportster, manufactured by Granville
Brothers, Springfield, Mass. 1t has an
| 8O0-horsepower Wasp engine manufac-
tured by the Pratt g. Whitney Co.,
Hartford, Conn.l
Pusher and Gyro Collide.
The crowd got a different kind of
| thrill later in the day. when repro
duction of a 1910 "pusher" plane,
piloted by AL Wilson of Hollywood,
| Calf. collided with an autcgyro flown
| by Johnny Miller of Poughkeepsie,
N. Y.
wilson was reported critically In
| jured, suffering from fractures OF the
| left arm and left leg, lacerations OF the
head and a possible fractured skull
Miller and his passenger, William Miller,
newspaper man, escaped with
shaking up.
The collision occurred near the
ground in front Of the stands. 1t was
the second serious accident OF the races.
william A. Warrick. jr., OF Cleveland,
and Paul S. Bloom of Davenport, Iowa.
colliding in midair yesterday. Both
we're reported recovering tonight.
Mai. Doolittle, former Air corps
7 flyer. looked glum as he landed, out
wide grin spread over his race as ne
learned that he had succeeded IN snat-
III fpilIlrP We0neS-
day to carry q paragraph, wnen ne
averaged 292 S0l miles an hour.
Then. with the sportsmanship whlcn
has endeared him to the flying fra
ternity. he said:
"Well leave the next record to Russ
Boardman. There are still more miles
in the ship: he'll bust 300 miles an
hour. and then we'll all be happy
The plane, barrel-shaped ship Win
an 8OO-hcrsepower air-cooled engine
was to have been Boardman's entry IN
the races, but an accident while testing
another plane injured the TRANSATLANTIC
flyer, and Doolittle, whose own iast
piane was damaged in lanolng al
wichita. Kans.. slipped into his place
lis speedy dashes followed closely
the feat of Mrs. Mae Haizlip, nying
the ship her husband used IN setting
new West-East transnation record
of 10 hours and 19 minutes MONDAY IN
. unofficially beating the womens worlo
, land plane record Of 2l0.636 miles an
hour. set in 1881 by Ruth Nichols, Rye
". Y society flyer. ~, e.o
Mrs. Haizlip was clocked at 23l o3s
miles an hour on two laps over the
straightway but her course was olago-
| nal and timers were unable TO get tne
Photographic records necessary to MAKE
the runs official.
, Long before the stands were occupied
other speed flyers were testing their
wings over the course. led by James u
, Haizlip. who averaged 26644 miles an
hour ,u.,
Lee Gehlbach. Mount Clemens. Mich.
. hying a model of Maj. Doolittles Worlo
record plane except for a lower powered
engine, averaged 248 548 mills an hour
. in one passage over the couf3 before
pulling of because of failure to receive
suficient fuel from the planes main
I tank.
Mrs. Lund Qualities.
Mrs. Betty Lund, Troy. Ohio hying
a shin borrowed from Art Davis, East
lansing Mich. qualified for tomorrow
hieh-speed women's free-for-an by
averaging l79795 miles an hour over
the straightway. ,
Canadian quartet DeSteu al hHicI
can team in a novelty relay race for
aviation country clubs by 1858 seconos
Two planes were used, the first pllots
taking of together making circuit OF
the pylons and landing for each sue
ceeding team member to cover the
| course
The winning team was made up OF
8. M. Mesbitt, Montreal and S. B.
Cleverly, K NJ Smith and M. j. NC
! Mullen, all of Toronto, Canada.
Florence Klingensmith OF Mime
apolis, who won the Amelia Earhart
trophy yesterday, displayed daring
exhibition Of pylon cutting to place
second in a hanhicap closed course race
open both to men and women.
; The winner. r. c. Havens OF Brad
, ford Pa who took of flrst against
Miss Klingensmiths last, was forced To
the limit to nose his ship over the line
e ahead Of the woman flyers racing
! monoplane. John p. Morris Of Pitts
burgh placed third.
Art Davis Wins.
i Art Davis OF East Lansing. Mich.
!. 4 whipped his monoplane first over the
r line In a 2-mile closed course race fol
ships with motors of 2o0-cubic inch
e piston displacement His average speed
s was 10l miles an hour. Harold Neu-
= man of Moline. ILL.,, was second, and
George Mccarthy Of GAINESVILLE. Wis.
S third. L. Sibley of Akron was fourth.
0 A taste OF the 200-mile-an hour
speed that will feature the Labor day
closed course speed classic was disheo