Evening star., 1933-05-08
AMATEUR AIR MEET
AT COLLEGE PARK IS
ATTENDED BY 10000.
Permanent Local Club Is Ex.
pected to Result From
Success of Contests.
SO SPORTSMEN PILOTS
COMPETE IN EVENTS
Steps to Be Taken Soon for Forma-
ton of National Capital Avia-
ton Country Club.

Before a crowd estimated at nearly
| 10000, said to be the largest attend
ance at any amateur air meet in the
country, 38 sportsmen pilots from the
National Capital and Atlantic Seaboard
States yesterday afternoon at historic
College Park Airport. College Park, Md.
competed in a meet which Is expected
to result in the creation Of perma-
nent local club for private airplane
owners and pilots.
Encouraged by the success Of the
meet, Chester H. Warrington, local gov
ernor of the United States Amateur Air
Pilots Association and president of the
Washington Air Derby Association,
which the Greater National Capital
Committee, sponsored the affair. an
nounced that steps will be taken to or
ganize local aviation country club for
the National Capital In the near fu-
ture.
After day OF thick weather Satur-
trants flying to Washington. the
weather cleared and was ideal for the
meet. No mishaps Of any kind, on the
ground or in the air. occurred to mar
a successful afternoon Of flying compe-
tition.
List Of Events and Winners.
The various events, winners and DON
ors Of the trophies presented them, were
as follows:
Event A, 30-mile race for sportsmen
pilots flying planes having a manufac-
turers' rated top speed not exceeding
lis miles per hour: First, c. H. Glenn
ents, who formerly flew at Congress
sionsl Airport. II minutes, 1913 seconds,
| Hotel Washington trophy; second, FL
kin c. Floyd, Norfolk, Va, IL minutes,
800 seconds. District Motor Company
trophy; third, James A. Foote. Wash
Harris Company trophy.
Event B, 3O-mile sportsmen pilots
race for planes having a maximum
| rated speed of 125 miles per hour
First. Larry P. Sharples, Wingfield Fly
ing Club, Philadelphia, 10 minutes SCI
seconds, Quality Lubricants Trophy;
second, Richard Brcher, Norristown,
Pa. 10 minutes 578 seconds, Lee D..
Butler Trophy; third, r. D. Morgan,
Newcastle, Del, IL minutes Is seconds,
Credit & Finance Trophy
Event c, 30-mile sportsmen pilots
race, planes having maximum rating
Little, jr., the Pylon Club, Philadelphia,
10 minutes IA seconds, the Packard
Washington Trophy, and second. Hol-
land Duell. Larchmont, NJ Y. IL
minutes 1873 seconds, Trew Motor
Trophy.
Event D. 30-mile free-for-all handi-
cap race-First, c. j. Wilke, Baltimore,
flying plane entered by his sister
Miss Frances Wilke Of Baltimore, 8
minutes As seconds. The Evening Star
Trophy; second. H. A. Little, Phila-
delphia. 9 minutes 11.4 seconds, Palais
Royal Trophy; third, E. c. Floyd, Nor
folk, 9 minutes 26.8 seconds, H. A. L.
Barker Trophy.
Aerobatic Competition.
Event E, acrobatic contest, open to
any type Of plane-First, Larry Shar-
pies, Standard Oil Trophy; second,
Richard Bircher, Kempton- Cadillac
Trophy; third, j. B. Purnell. Harris
burg Pa. George Brinckerhof Trophy
Event F, "slow race" the prize going
to the pilot taking the longest time to
fly a 20-mile course-First, r. L.
Baber, Washington, 20 minutes 80 Sec
onds, Washington Board Of Trade
Trophy, and second, Clarence S. Bruce,
Bureau of Standards, Washington. 19
minutes 40 seconds, H. B. Leary Bros. ;
Trophy.
Event G, 2o-mile race for planes
powered with war time OX-5 engines
First, L. N. Jordan, Washington, 8
minutes 27 seconds, Shah & Shah
Trophy, and second, w. F. Henderson,
Washington, minutes 20 seconds,
Standard Automotive Supply Co.
Trophy.
Event H, "dead-stick" landing con-
test-First. H. A. Little, jr., Philadel-
phia, 8 feet 81 inches from the mark
Chestnut Farms Trophy; second, c. j.
/ Wilke, Baltimore, 10 feet 11h inches,
Floyd, Norfolk, IS feet ! u inches, Gar
! finkle Trophy.
Event L. scale model airplane con-
test, non-hying-First, Richard Hooper,
Washington, Betty Jane Julian Trophy.
Even M. 30-mile handicap race for
women pilots-First, Miss Helen Nc
Closkey, Pittsburgh. Pa, IL minutes "a
seconds, Aero Club of Washington
Trophy; second, Miss Johanna Buse,
Washington. 13 minutes % seconds,
American Oil Co. Trophy; third, Miss
Grace Raezer, College Park, Md, IA
| minutes 1876 seconds, Harris & Ewing
award.
Event N. sandbag bomb" dropping
contest, c. H. Clements, C. H. Warning
ton Trophy.
Trophies Given Winners.
| All trophies were presented to winners
Immediately following the close of the
/ meet.
Differences between the sponsors Of
the meet and the National Aeronautic
! Association were adjusted at an
| eleventh-hour conference Saturday aft
ernoon, the meet being held under OH
cial sanction of the association. The
sanction was granted following modif1-
cation Of the rules governing the SLOW
race" and the race for OX-5-motored
planes to meet criticism that these races
were unnecessarily dangerous"
Among the race officials and specta-
tors were Federal and civil aviation
leaders. John S. Thompson, donor of
the famous Thompson Trophy, compe-
tition for which last year resulted in
the establishment of new world land
plane speed records, came from Cleve-
land for the meet, as did Pop" Cleve-
land, for many years contest director Of
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