Evening star., 1938-09-04
RACE WON
BY.M|SS COCHRAN
FLYING 246 M.P.H.
Red. Haired Orphan Girl, 27,
Defeats 10 Men to Take
$12,50O in Prizes.
CLIPS 312 HOURS TIME
FROM INGALLS, RECORD
New Time for Women Established
Across U. S.-Frank Fuller
Second in Dash.
Ey the Associated Press.

Ky the Associated PRESS.
CLEVELAND. Sept. 3.-Red- haired
Jacqueline Cochran not only won the
eighth Bendix Trophy race today to
triumph over 10 experienced male
pilots, but set a new transcontinental
air record for women, the National
Aeronautic Association announced.
Flying from Burbank, Calf, to
Bendix, N. j., in 10 hours minutes
and 10 seconds Miss Cochran clipped
nearly three and half hours from the
former record set by Laura ingalls,
September IL. 1898.
Miss ingalls, record on a flight from
Burbank to Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y,
was made in l3 hours "a minutes and
5 seconds.
Miss Cochran, 27, wife OF Financier
Floyd B. Odlum and an orphan who
started to work at II, showed her sill
very plane across the country at 246
miles an hour to take down $l2 500
in prize money in the Bendox race.
She fought thunderstorms and icing
conditions as she sped at height OF
10000 to $4,000 feet from Burbank,
Calf. to Cleveland, paused to greet
her husband and hear the cheers of
thousands at the National Air Races,
and sped on over Bendix. N. J.
1t was triumph the slight young
woman had earned. other pilots agreed
She had finished third in last years
Bendix. and in the 1885 race she had
been forced down at Kingman, Ariz.
Drinks Tomato Juice.
She fiew alone, with tomato juice
her only nourishment on the l0-hour,
2.446-mile grind in l,200-horsepower
Seversky plane. equipped with twin
Wasp motors 1t was the same plane
Seversky new across the continent to
break record last week.
Her plane carried the racing num-
Der Is"
In Cleveland her first concern was 4:
Where's my husband?"
He gave her an unofiicial greeting
much warmer than the ofilcial.
She whipped the closest of her men
rivals. Frank Fuller, into Cleveland
by % minutes to win Sll,50O and
become the second woman to take
the cross-country event.
Miss Cochran reached the l.O80-acre
airport here with an elapsed time Of
hours 10 minutes and 3 seconds
l6 minutes slower than the Bendix
record posted last year by Fuller. the
San Francisco millionaire sportsman.
Averages 24s NJ. p. H.
She averaged 249.774 miles an hour
for the distance to Cleveland, COM
pared with the 238604 posted today
by Fuller, whose second place was
good for $4,000.
Then Miss Cochran. after talking
with Mr.. Odlum briefly, continued OF
to BendiX to pick up another 81 900
for the fastest time between Burbank
and Bendix
She flew over Bendix at 4:35 pm.
(E. S. ID and continued on to Floyd
Bennett Airport, New York, to land.
Bendix timers gave her elapsed time
for the transcontinental test, includ-
ing the 19 minutes she was grounded
at Cleveland in addition to the IS
minutes allowed all contestants, as
10:O7:l0.
She had left Burbank hours and
13 minutes after CALIFORNIA; mid
night-or at 6:l3 am, Eastern stand
ard time.
The weather was swell until I saw
the sun this morning" she said as she
left her plane at Floyd Bennett. Then
I began running into bad weather,
tSee BENDIX, Page A-7.)