Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1931, Page 11

RACES POINT WAY TOFASTER PLANES E Bayles’ Feature Winner and Other Crack Ships Show Developments. BY_JOSEPH S. EDGERTON, Radlo Editor of The Star. CLEVELAND AIRPORT, September 97— Though the Thompson Trophy race, American speed classic end climax of the 1931 National Air Races, failed to produce a new American speed record, | 4t showed that American aviation has | set its heart on regaining its lost stand- | ing in high-speed development and that during the past year @ long step has been taken in this direction. New designs have been able to add 85 miles per hour to plane speed and enough_experience was gained to pomnt to considerable increase in speed befcre the next Thompson rolls around a year from now. One of the important results of racing activity in 1931, in the opinion of Lieut. Alfred J. Willlams, jr., former Navy raeing star, who organized the foreign team which has amazed spec- tators during the past 10 days, is & demonstration of the necessity for pow- ering high-speed planes with fluld- cooled engines in the future. New Designs Necessary. “There can be no question about the need for reducing the engine area ex- posed to the air stream,” Williams said. “The races of the past two years show this definitely. There must be a revolu- tion in engine design before the country can attain real speed progress. This aft- ernoon Lowell Bayles, slender former Ii- linois coal miner. who won the Thomp- son yesterday afternoon with a speed of 236.239 miles per hour, is going to put his fleet little Gee Bee racer over the | 3-kilometer racecourse here in an effort | to break the 11-year-old American speed record of 266.59 miles per hour held by | Lieut. Willlams. The attempt was postponed until after | the Thompson' to keep his motor m‘ shape for the race. which netted him & cash prize of $7.500 in addition to the ‘Thompson Trophy. which he will hold for a year. ‘Though the big speed event was run off this vear without serious accident, it still furnished plenty of thrills for the largest throng ever gathered to wit- ness an aviation event. Jackson Has Close Call. Dale “Red” Jackson, wha replaced Lee Schoenhair at the controls of a sister ship of the one with which Jimmy Doolittle & few days ago set a new transcontinental speed record, narrowly escaped disaster when he struck the top of a tree on the first lap. Though his landing gear was badly bent and the fabric on his lower right wing badly ripped, Jackson, known for his two rec- ord-breaking refueling endurace flights, | gamely stuck to the race, with the fabric ripping father on each lap. and nursed his plane through to third place, with an average speed of 211.183 miies per hour, and then landed the crip- pled plane beautifully. He placed third to win $3,000 v Doolittle was forced out on catch fire. Smoke was pouring into his cockpit so badly as to blind him when ! | ond place this year was }'1:! finally dropped out and landed ely. Irg Eaker, Bolling Pleld, Wash- the. plane equi] the the belly of his plane with the wheels up. He slipped along some 20 yards and came to a rest with little damage done. Eaker has been consistently unlucky in his racing attempts. On two trans- continental record runs he was forced down by motor trouble, narrqwly es- caping death in a serious crash on one of them. He finished fourth in the transcontinental Bendix Trophy race a few days ago, just oyt of the money. Last year'’s Thompson race was won by the late Charles W. “Speed” Hol- man, sensation of the 1930 races, with a speed of 201 miles per hour after Capt. Arthur H. Page, Marine . then leading, crashed and was fatally in- jured on the seventeenth lap. All three winners this year had average speed far in excess of Holman's. Sec- taken by J. R. Weddell, who averaged 227.992 mlles per hour to win $4,800. Bayles Fiyer Seven Years. Bayles has been fiying for seven years and now runs a flying service in Bpring- fleld, Mass,, where his Gee Bee racer was bullt. 'He is regarded as an un- ally skillful and level-headed pilot, *HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Gee Bee lrutlrdly to win the women's free-for-all speed better Miss Ruth Nichols' speed record o the Th the pilots fin n e om| Tace . laced in the ers, Ray Moore, San Fran- cisco; Louls Reichers, Arlington, N. .Q!d gxd Harold 8. Johnson, Chicago, fail start. \ Race Without Fatalities. The 1031 races oconcluded this year without a single fatality, as against the | death toll of four last year, though there | were several crashes this year, most | sensational being the collision of two Marine planes in the air, both pilots p-r-ehuv.?nc to safety. An Army pilot also escaped by & parachute jumg ter Hunter's parachute saved when his Thompson plane caught fire and crashed. From the standpoint of fiying results, the races this year are the most su cessful in history. Many of the Tesulf u though he has gained little previous recognition. Miss Maude Irving Tait, also of ull H H & S e ’ e Ladies and Gentlemen * raca ol Work . .. has-made SPIC and SPAN re- sults outstanding...whether it's & hat, dress, suit or coat you can rest assured that you will be most pleased. Remem- ber, Spic and Span Cleaning is THEBEST———S a saving... Ladies’ Dresses.....$1 Ladies’ Coats.......$1 Men’s Suits. 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