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At The Winter Resorts

Man and Woman Vie in Air at Daytona

DAYTONA, Fla., Feb. 7.—That flying has reached the stage of real competition has been demonstrated in Daytona during the past week, and the residents and winter tourists here are now enjoying a bit of real rivalry between Aviator George Gray and Avatrix Ruth Law. Mr. Gray has just completed his cross-country flight to this city and will remain here during the re-mainder of the winter season, giving ex-hibition and passenger-carrying flights every day from the famous Daytona beach in competition with Miss Ruth Law, who has been giving flights here for several weeks. Neither is engaged by any organiza-tion or individual; both own their Wright-biplanes and each is determined to outdo the other in altitude flights and daring manipulation of the machines in the air. This rivalry is proving a rare treat to the people here and the flying exhibitions are daily drawing immense crowds to the beach.

Among the pleasant social affairs of the past week at the Ridgewood Hotel was a progressive bridge party Thursday evening. Miss W. Webster of Galesburg, Ill., won first prize for women and Miss Ella Raising of Brooklyn took second prize. The first gentlemen’s prize was taken by F.C. Shel-don of Chicago and the second gentlemen’s prize went to Dr. Moore of Lawrence, Mass.

PICTURE OF A PLANE TO RIGHT

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CAPTION UNDERNEATH: MISS RUTH LAW AND COL. C.M BINGHAM, RETIRED, ABOUT TO START A FLIGHT AT DAYTONA, FLA.

PICTURE OF RUTH LAW AND MAN ON PLANE.

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PICTURE OF RUTH LAW NEXT TO A PLANE.

PICTURE OF A BEACH WITH THE WAVES COMING FROM THE RIGHT. TAKEN PRESUMABLY FROM THE PLANE.

NEW YORK HERALD SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1913.

Weaker Sex Crowding Men in Hazardous Employments and Sports.

Ruth Law, Who Will Try to Cross Ocean in Aeroplane.

PICTURE OF RUTH LAW.

Miss Ruth Bancroft Law of Lynn, aviatrix, and her brother, F. Rodman Law, the parachute jumper who missed death by a hair when he at-tempted a trip to the clouds inside of a big skyrocket a few weeks ago, are to try a flight across the Atlantic ocean in a biplane.

“We expect to make the trip in 18 hours,” said Miss Law, who is a Lynn girl and in private life is Mrs. Charles a Oliver, to a Telegram reporter yesterday.

Caption: Will Start in July

“The flight will be from Newfound-land to the Irish coast. The plan is to go across some time in July. My brother does not know how to fly and that is why I am going. I shall try to teach him how to handle the aeroplane the way over. 

I do not think there is the slightest doubt that we can do it. We shall(BREAK) carry no pontoons or boats but under the wings of our machine we will have three floats, so in case of a fall the apparatus will float. The floats will probably be hollow tins.

Caption: Boats Too Heavy

“Boats would be too heavy to carry and in case we fell they would be of no use in the ocean. Then, again, by not carrying them we get away from just so much weight. We shall have to carry from 90 to 100 gallons of gaso-lene and this will be quite heavy enough. With 100 gallons we will have enough for about 30 hours’ flying.

We expect to make 100 miles an hour on our way across. Lord North-cliffe of the London Mail has offered a prize of $150,000 for the first success-ful flight across the Atlantic, and we are after that money.”

DRAWING OF RUTH LAW. TO THE RIGHT ANOTHER DRAWING IN AN OVAL WITH HER SITTING ON THE PLANE.

Caption underneath: Ruth Bancroft Law.,

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