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[[newspaper clipping]] ^[[SEPT. 4 1931]] NEW YORK AM[[?]] Rain Delays Amateur Air Race; Start Set for Today The amateur pilots' air race to the National Air Races at Cleveland was postponed yesterday because of unfavorable weather. The takeoff from Hicksville, L. I., is now scheduled for 10 o'clock today, and the contestants will fly straight through to Cleveland instead of making an overnight stop at Buffalo. Fifteen men and women who pilot their own ships for the fun of it will take part in the air derby. They are: Laura Morgan and Jessamine Goddard, members of the Junior League; W. E. D. Stokes, Jr., of New York; Robert Buck of Montclair, N. J., one of the youngest licensed pilots in the United States; Vernon Shaw-Kennedy, Lawrence Turnure, Allen Eustis, and James Eblen, all New York brokers; [[pencil underlined]] Manila Davis [[/pencil underlined]] of Flat Woods, W. Va.; Mrs. B. Allison Gillies of New York; Granville B. Smith, insurance broker of Hartford, Conn.; A. W. Sweet of Newark; John W. La Sell of Worcester, Mass.; John Herfurtner of New York; and John S. Reaves, president of the Amateur Air Pilots Association. The course of the derby is approximately 680 miles. The bronze trophy to be awarded the winner is the gift of Charles L. Lawrence of New York. [[image - photo of man in aviator gear]] [[caption]] ROBERT BUCK Young flier entered in amateur race. [[/caption]] [[image - photograph of woman holding toy plane]] [[caption]] MRS. B. ALLISON GILLIES Hops today on air race to Cleveland. [[/caption]] [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, Long Island Society for Tunes Its Motors Big Amateur Air Derby to Cleveland It's So Strictly Amateur That It Hurts, and It's Very Exclusive, Too. Motors of the younger social set are reviving up today on the grounds of the Long Island Aviation Country Club at Hicksville for the start tomorrow of the first event of its kind in flying history – the national handicap derby for amateur pilots. Mrs. B. Allison Gillies, who was Betty Hyler, is out there in her little red Waco, seeing that every nut is tight. And Miss Jessamine Goddard has forgone her customary activities of the moment with the Junior League's Mid-Winter Assemblies committee to supervise the final overhauling of her Monocoupe. The derby will start from the club grounds at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon, and will terminate Friday afternoon at Cleveland as a feature of the national air meet now under way there. The Requirements. Only those may complete for the handsome bronze trophy – a replica of Winged Victory, 30 inches high – who can pass successfully these four hurdles:– 1. Never competed with professionals in professional event. 2. Never accepted any pecuniary reward for using or permitting oneself to be advertised as using the goods of a manufacturer, agent or merchant. 3. Never accepted any pecuniary reward for appearing at any air meet or airport. 4. Never found guilty of unsportsmanlike conduct. Those who have qualified and enrolled as entrants for the derby to date are:– Mrs. Gillies, Miss Goddard, Miss Laura Morgan, all of New York; [[pencil underlined]] Miss Minila Davis, of West [[/pencil underlined]] Virginia; Lawrence Turnure, partner in Turnure & Co., bankers; D. Vernon Shaw-Kennedy, broker with Brown Bros. & Harriman; W. E. D. Stokes, Jr.; John La Salle, Worcester, Mass.; Granville E. Smith, Hartford; Robert Buck, Roy Rainey and John S. Reeves, president of the United States Amateur Pilots' Association. Handicap Business. The trophy was presented by Charles Lanier Lawrance, president of the Aeronautical Society, and permanent possession of it will go to the flyer who wins the derby three years in succession. Today, as yesterday, handicappers are busy establishing par for each contestant's plane by clocking them each way over a one-mile course at cruising speed. The route to be followed after the 1:30 take-off tomorrow afternoon will be to Albany, Syracuse and Buffalo, where the night will be spent, then on to Akron the following day. There the planes will wait for the flash sending them into Cleveland and the finish line. Every amateur will be placed on his or her honor not to open his motor to more than 50 revolutions above the par cruising speed until on the last lap from Akron to Cleveland. [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] SYRACUSE N. Y. JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 5, 1931 DERBY PLANES VISIT CITY The biggest air derby – in the number of planes entered – ever to land in Syracuse, halted at the municipal airport at Amboy Friday afternoon en route from the Aviation Country Club at Hicksville, L. I., to Cleveland via Buffalo and Akron. Laurence Turnure in his Stearman biplane led the race into Syracuse. He carried John Reaves of the Aviation Country Club, manager of the derby, as a passenger. Trailing Turnure by a few minutes was Allen Eustis in a Travelair; Robert Buck, 17-year-old junior transcontinental speed record-holder, and Mrs. B. Allison Gillies, who before her marriage was Miss Betty Huyler. The following landed in the order named: John W. Lasell, D. Vernon Shaw Kennedy, [[pencil underlined]] Miss Mannila Davis, [[/pencil underlined]] James Eblen, Miss Jessamine Goddard, Miss Laura Morgan, Granville B. Smith and A. W. Sweet. Young Buck had as his passengers his parents, Dr. and Mrs. O. A. Buck of Hillside, N. J. His mother has flown more than 10,000 miles with her son, while his father has taken many cross-country trips with the youthful pilot, who, although he has had more than 500 hours in the air, cannot get a license because of his age. Two [[pencil underlined]] accidents [[/pencil underlined]] were narrowly averted during the visit of the Derby planes to Syracuse. [[pencil underlined]] Miss Davis [[/pencil underlined]] experienced difficulty in landing when the throttle on her trim Great Lakes biplane stuck and she was unable to throttle her motor. She shot at the field three times before she was able to set her plane down. The other accident occurred on takeoff when the motor on Smith's plane cut just after he lifted it off the ground. He was able to set the ship down again on the airport, however. Although Smith offered no explanation, it is believed he started away with his gasoline turned off. [[/newspaper clipping]] ^[[PAGE 105]]
