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JULY 29, 1934

[[image - black & white photograph of Manila Davis Talley leaning against a plane with plane flying overhead in the background]]
[[caption]] THE photograph to the right is of [[underlined]] Mrs. B. B. Talley, [[/underlined]] of Fountain av., the farmer Miss Manila Davis, wife of Lieut. B. B. Talley. Mrs. Talley is a member of the local aeronautical association, and has been piloting various types of planes for more than five years. [[/caption]]

Women to Have Own Air Races

Faced with the injunction "For Men Pilots Only" attached to the listing of each competitive event of the 1934 National Air Races to be held here, women flyers of the country are going to have "For Women Pilots Only" air races under the title of the Women's National Air Meet at Dayton, O., Aug. 4 and 5.

Peggy Lennox Albertsen, member of the Cleveland Chapter of the Ninety Nines, organization of aviatrices, is one of the fair flyers who will compete for the $3,000 in prize money and the trophies offered the winners. Flying a cabin monoplane Mrs. Albertsen hopes to win the barrier landing contest, she said yesterday.

Although the air meet is for women only, the jobs of handicapping, scoring and timing will be performed by a committee of male flyers, of which John Livingstone, a prominent racing pilot, is chairman.

While the Dayton meet prizes are only $3,000 as compared to the $35,000 offered for the men's events in the National Air Races, the women hope to see the importance of their meet and the total of the prize money increase in future years, according to Mrs. Albertsen.

The women do not expect to make speeds equal to those of the men who will compete at Cleveland Airport. Qualifying speeds for the races here have been boosted this year, the highest qualifying speed, 225 miles an hour, being demanded of entrants in the Thompson trophy race.
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