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RACE RULES: PICTURES: INSTRUCTIONS: AD INFINITUM.

SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21, 1932. C CI

Thirteen of Flyers Who Start Air Race Today

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CECIL A. ALLEN

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GLADYS O'DONNELL

[[photo]]WALDO WATERMAN

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JEAN LA RENE

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FRED BURLEW

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MILDRED MORGAN

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JOHN B. VICKERS

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ED. G. BUSH

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MARSHALL HEADLE

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MARTIE BOWMAN

[[photo]] CLEMA GRANER

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CLARON BEAUCHAMP

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MARY CHARLES

Rich Trophies Beckon Sweepstakes Contestants 

FIFTY-SIX BEGIN AIR RACE TODAY

First of $10,000 Derby Pilots Hops Soon After Noon

Eight Women in Cleveland Annual Aerial Dash

Flyers Due in Yuma Tonight; Eastern Wing to Start

A swarm of fifty-six racing airplanes nestled on Municipal Airport last night ready for the drop of the flag that will send them away this afternoon on the first leg of the 2475-mile transcontinental Sweepstakes Handicap Hit Derby to Cleveland, O.
The eight women and forty-eight men seeking shares in the $10,000 purse, trophies and automobiles, gave the engines of their sleep craft a final check last night.
Roy Harding, official starter, announced he will send the first ship away--the slowest in the race, to be flown by John Hardesty of Taft--at 12:20 p.m., allowing the eighty-nine-mile-an-hour Monocoupe approximately two hours and forty minutes to cover the first lap of the race to Yuma, aria.
ABSORB HANDICAPS
Fifty-five minutes later the swiftest ship--a Waco Speedwing, with Gladys P'Donnell, Long Beach derby veteran, at the controls--will lift its wheels.
Under the handicapping system, with handicaps to be absorbed at the start of each jump on the Cleveland itinerary, all ships theoretically should swarm across the finish lines at the same time on the fourteen separate dashed.
Today's finish at Yuma is scheduled for 3 p.m., Pacific standard time.
Following the local take-off an air show has been planned for the crowd expected at the municipal field. There will be no admission fee or automobile parking charge, according to Col. R. B. Barnitz, airport director.
Only four of the men entered in this year's annual derby, known as the Cord Cup race, have been in previous sky speed battles, while seven of the eight women flyers in the 1932 race are veterans of the cross-country contests.
ONE BRIDE TO FLY
Roy Hunt, Jim Grander, Eldon Cessna and Leslie C. Miller are derby repeaters.
The seven women are Mrs. O'Donnell, who won the 1930 women's air derby and took second in 1929; Mildred Morgan, Beverly Hills society leader, second-place winner in 1930; Jean La Rene, Dallas flight instructor, third in 1930; Martie Bowman, Burbank pilot, third-place winner of 1931; Edith Foltz of Portland, Or., fourth in 1931; contestant last year, and Mary Charles, Los Angeles woman, who also learned the derby ropes in 1931.
Peggy Edna Gilliland, Los Angeles aviatrix, is the only woman in this year's list who will find the race something new.
Ulrich Ritcher, who came all the way from Hamburg, Germany, to enter his little German Klemm monoplane in the derby, will have his blonde bride as a passenger.
Thirty-six of the pilots in the derby are form California and a majority of the rest from Western States.
Prize winner will be determined

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