The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-07
MAKES 234 MILES
PER HOUR TO WIN
Other Flyers Complain His
Ship Is Only One Of Its
Kind Available
By TED GILL

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 6.-R-
Streaking along at 234.097 miles an
hour on = nonstop dash from 81
Louis, Homer Rankin of Wichita,
Kan. today won the Bernarr Nc
Fadden c~ross-country trophy srrlnt,
feature event of the All-Amerlcan
Air Races.
WINS $4,000
Flying a ~twin-engined Beechcraft
monoplane, Rankin required only
four hours, 81 minutes, so seconds
to complete the 1,084-mile flight
ard win top prize Of $4,000 over
a field Of eight other pilots enter
ed from st. Louis, New York city
and Houston.
Russell Holderman Of Rochester,
who started his flight from New
York, won second place prize OF
$4,000 and William Cason of San
Antonio, who started from Hous-
ton, placed third to win $1,000.
Holderman, who flew a twin.en-
gined Lockheed, covered the 1.16S
miles from New York in five hours,
Sc minutes, one second, or an av-
erage speed of 2o8.561 miles an
hour, while Cason, who flew. LAB
miles from Houston in five hours,
50 minutes, IS seconds, acquired
an average speed Of 194.507 miles
an hour.
Stock Models
Winners of the race, open to
strictly stock model craft with ad-
vertised minimum cruising speeds
of $50 miles an hour or more, were
determined on the basis of the
least elapsed time for the distance
flown.
Following completion Of the race,
some pilots, flying slower planes,
complained officially that Ran
kin's ship was a new and fast fac
tory job, the only one of its kind
ever made and they felt he should
withdraw.
Contest board officials declared,
however, that Rankin's plane was
duly sanctioned and they could
take 70 official action on the
pilots unofficial complaint.
Anthony J. Ming of Red Bank,
N. J., starting from st. Louis,
flew his plan, here in five hours,
"a minutes, 80 seconds for an av-
erage speed Of 194.362 miles an
hour to take fourth place prize of
$1,000.
The total purse, which had been
set at $3.50 when Is pilots were
originally entered, was reduced to
So, 900 when the field was cut to
nine by Withdrawals.
The last five finishers received
$10O each.
Bruce Gimbel of New York City,
flying from Houston, covered the
seconds, for an average speed of
192.074 miles an hour and fifth
place.
Donald Provost, Of Teaneck, N. j.,
flying from Houston, was clicked in
S hours, So minutes, As seconds for
a sixth place speed of 91.164 miles
an hour.
Seventh Place
The seventh-place finisher was
George Pomeroy of Brooklyn, who
flew his plane here from st. Louis
in 6 hours, 2 minutes, 13 seconds for
a speed of 1866.
Mrs. Arlene Davis of Lakewood,
Ohio, flying from st. Louis, was
timed at 6 hours, 6 minutes, 3 Sec
onds for a speed Of 177.681.
Last to finish was Raymond Lloyd
of Robertson, Mo-, who was slowed
down on his flight from st. Louis
by a refueling stop at Atlanta and
bad weather. He vas clicked at
1924 miles an hour, covering the
distance in 6 hours, So minutes, 40
seconds.
While the cross-country sprint
was in progress, 10000 persons
watched a program Of stunts, races
and precision flights by some of the
headlined aerobatic experts of the
country.
Winner of the featured closed
course race, a 25.mile dash for the
$500 Col. E. H. r. Green trophy, was
won by Art Carnahan of Blooming
ton, ILL.,, with a speed of 173 miles
al hour, in his monocoupe. Top
prize was $500, open to planes of
$50 cubic inch displacement or I'm.
der.
Second-place winner, collecting
5000, vas Leonard Peterson of Ben.
ton Harbor, Mich. He averaged ITO
miles.
Vincent Burnet, Of College Park,
Md, won $120 by finishing third
with a 169-mile speed and Carl Win.
stead of Oklahoma City collected $50
by finishing fourth with a speed of
100 miles an hour.
A 25-mile free-for-all race for the
Dominican trophy with no prize
money awarded, was won by Ken
meth Olson of Racine, ILL.,, who av
eraged ITO miles an hour. H. B
Bender of Toledo was second; Rus
sell Hay of Pittsburgh, third, an6
- William Coddington of Charlotte, N
c., last.
Jack Snodgrass, of Waterloo, Iowa
won a small-plane 10-mile race fo1
craft Of 200 cubic inch displacement
o. under, which was one Of a Sc
ries of qualifying trials for the $780,
Firestone trophy race tomorrow. HI
was clicked at 104 miles an hour il
his Taylorcraft. Carnahan was sec
ond and Allan Jones of Cincinnati
last.