Show I L. L Wins Derby ji s PHOEBE Has Victory Habit Memphis Aviatrix i Leads Women to toI I Cleveland Races I Finishes With 10 Points More Than Nearest Rival Is Also Unofficial Winner in Sweepstake mv CB Br Frets Frets' CLEVELAND Aug 31 Sirs Mrs Phoebe who has ha made a habit of It leading lady birds in flying fing today today today to to- day was ivas judged winner of oC the women's nomen's women's wo- wo mens men's division of the national sweepstake sweep sweep- stake handicap derby Scorers working all night to rush averages of ot one fifty men and women who took a week to fly flythe flythe the 2100 miles mlles from front Santa Santa- Monica Cal Cat to Cleveland ga gave gathe the Memphis a rating of p per percent r cent more than 10 0 O points ahead o of MarCIe Marlie BoWman ym n Glendale Cal Cat who rated D 06 per ler cent cenk The official checkers Reg Burrows Los Ang l s. s and Myron Griffin C Cleveland added that tha t Mr Mrs Mrs Is unofficially conceded the sweepstake prize also from all indications though ratings of all men contestants contest must be checked checked- WON iWON LAST ST EAR Mrs first of h her l' l sex to receive re re- I a h transport pilots pilot's license was first across the finish line yesterday She v won n the DL ie derby of last years year's lair air races Officials listened for more than I five fI ours hours after Mrs scarlet land and yellow plane flashed over o the finish line lIue to protests of their handicapping handicapping handi handi- capping system but said further heed of ot dissatisfied contestants would not be taken unless bond was wa-s as posted I Handicap ratings were cre based on a schedule of the average speed made by b beach each cont contestant in four dashes lover over a one mile course course- and the air all airline airline line distance cc from tron the starting point to finish line I John Livingston Aur Aurora ra Ill with an average nera miles over a 30 mil course won on the first closed course race here to today ay The Therace Therace Irae race was for planes wl wl wIh h engines of ot c cubic cable inch piston displacement and carried in awards MRS WINS Mrs won a n mile closed course race for women with airplanes power powered d with engines of cubic on Pate Two Vo I I Memphis A Aviatrix v Leads Women W om n to Cleveland Races Continued from from Pue One Ont inch piston displacement Her average average average aver aver- age speed was 1298 miles an hour The Caterpillar clubs club's newest recruits re ro- emits two marines who electrified the Sunday crowd with a midair col lisbon and escaped by taking to their parachutes were read ready to take toke the theair theair theair air again They were Lieutenant L. L H. H M M. Sanderson Shelton Wash and Lieutenant Lieu tenant W W. O. O Brice Winnsboro S. S C. C both bath of fighting squadron 9 o of Quantico Quantico Quantico Quan Quan- tico Va Their planes collided at 1500 feet altitude as a ship nine formation described described de scribed a serpent dance In the skies I the left wing o of Sanderson's ship cutting Into the Ue fuselage behind the cockpit of or the other fighter Both pilots left their falling ships quickly Sanderson's parachute catch catchIng Ing on the taU tall of his plane ilane but slipping slipping slipping slip slip- ping loose as he Jerked It heavily The ship landed In a field near the tho airport which had just been cleared o of people and automobiles while Brices Brice's plane dropped on the edge of a schoolhouse part remaining on the roof and the remainder dashing to the ground Undaunted by the narrow row escape the filers were In the air again forthe for lor the night performance S NEW V YORK Aug 31 OT 1 Blue Blue- bloods of the aviation world men and arid women who fly for fun Instead of fortune for for- fortune tune are to stage Americas America's first cross cross country air derby exclusively for amateurs In connection with the national air races at Cleveland The race to be flown from New NewYork NewYork Newyork York to Cleveland Is a surprise event and was not riot listed on the program being announced for the first time toda today Loday It will be a a. handicap affair open to all private privat owners of or planes who use their ships solely for pleasure pleasure pleas pleas- ure and so come under the designation ion tion of amateurs I I |