Evening star., 1940-01-07
Rankin, Averaging
234 N. P. H. Wins
Air Race 10 Miami
HoIdermun and Cuson
Also Take Prizes in
Cross-Country Dash
BY the Associated Press.


MIAMI, Fla, jan 6-Streaking
along at 234O97 miles an hour on
nonstop dash from st. Louis,
Homer Rankin of Wichita, Kans.,
today won the Bernarr MacFadden
cross-country trophy sprint, feature
event of the All-American Air Races.
Flying twin-engined Beechcraft
monoplane, Rankin required only 4
hours 81 minutes and so seconds to
complete the 1,084-mile flight and
win top prize of $1,000 over a field
of eight other pilots entered from
st. Louis, New York and Houston.
Russell Holderman of Rochester,
who started his flight from New
York, won second-place prize of ST.
900 and William Cason of San An
tonic, who started from Houston,
placed third to win $500.
Holderman Averages 208.
Holderman, who flew a twin
engined Lockheed, covered the 1,l68
miles from New York in S hours
36 minutes and l second. or an aver
age speed of 2O8561 miles an hour,
while Cason flew 1.143 miles from
Houston in hours 50 minutes and
IS seconds for a speed of 194.507
miles an hour.
Winners of the race. open to
strictly stock model craft with ad-
vertised minimum cruising speeds of
$50 miles an hour or more, were de-
termined on the basis of the least
elapsed time for the distance flown.
Following completion of the race,
some pilots, flying slower planes,
complained unoff1cially that Ran
kin's ship was new and fast fac
tory job, the only one of its kind
ever made, and they felt he should
withdraw.
Ming in Fourth Place.
Contest board officials declared,
however, that Rankin's plane was
duly sanctioned and they could take
no official action on the pilots un-
official complaint.
Anthony j. Ming of Red Bank,
N. j., starting from St. Louis, flew
his plane here in hours "a minutes
and 38 seconds for an average 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
$4,000 when the field was cut to nine
by Withdrawals. The last five finish
ers received 500 each.
Bruce Gimbel of New York City
took fifth place. Donald Provost OF
Teaneck, N. j., flying from Houston,
was sixth and George Pomeroy of
Brooklyn seventh.
Mrs. Arlene Davis of Lakewood
Ohio, flying from st. Louis, was
timed at hours, minutes and 3
seconds for speed of 177.681. Last
to finish was Raymond Lloyd OF
Robertson, Mo.
College Park Flyer Scores.
While the cross country sprint was
in progress, 10000 persons watched
a program of stunts, races and pre-
cision flights by some of the head
lined 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 Bloom
ington, ILL.,, with speed of II:
miles an hour, in his monocoupe
Top prize was $500, open to planes
of 550-cubic-inch displacement, Of
under.
Second-place winner, collecting
5000, was Leonard Peterson Of Ben
ton Harbor, Mich. He averaged III
miles.
Vincent Burnet of College Park
Nd, won $120 by finishing third
with a 169-mile speed, and Car
Winstead of Oklahoma City col
lected $50 by finishing fourth, witt
a speed of 160 miles an hour.
/ A 25-mile free-for-au race for th'
Dominican Trophy with no priz'
money awarded, was won by Ken
meth Olson Of Racine. Ill. who aver