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The Toronto Daily News
FINAL SPORTING EDITION

VOL. 38--NO. 136. NEW SERIES   TORONTO, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1918  PRICE TWO CENTS

BRITISH CRAFT IN LONG-RANGE NAVAL FLIGHT---
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Premier Hearst Addressed 'Blue Devils'--Ruth Law Performs Thrillers in Airplane--Leafs v. Orioles at Island

Ruth Law, Famous Flyer, Here
BATTLE-SCARRED FRENCH POLICE DOG GUARDS GIRL WHO HOLDS AMERICAN LONG DISTANCE RECORD

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MISS RUTH LAW.
  A HUGE, ferocious-looking dog which barked at timid ladies and hotel porters  was in the rotunda of the King Edward Hotel this morning, guarding a slim girlish figure in a well cut khaki aviation uniform. He came in for almost more attention than his mistress, who is Miss Ruth Law, the pioneer woman aviator of the United States.
  "Boileau doesn't seen to to understand that he must wait this morning," said the youthful flier as she patted the dogs head.
  "Boileau" is a French police dog who has been doing his bit among the soldiers in the trenches.    He has been wounded on his nose, but skillful surgery mended him successfully, and he is without any scar to show that he has been in the thick of things.
  But it was Miss Ruth Law, not the French war dog, who was to be interviewed.
  Looking fresh and youthful, with a wonderfully clear pink and white complexion, like a child's, Miss Law gives the impression of being self possessed and level headed. She has blue eyes, finely cut features, an unusually pleasant smile, and is very attractive in the military costume. 
FIRST FLIGHT IN 1912,
WAS MADE IN BAY STATE.
  Miss Ruth Law has been flying since 1912. Her first flight was at Marblehead, the military aviation school just outside Boston. The school in those days was not under Government control. her instructor was the famous American yachtsman Mr. W. Starling Burgess.  She has flown from Chicago to New York, a distance of 950 miles, in nine hours and one minute. This is a record-breaker, and Miss Law still holds the palm for the American long distance flight.  This was  made in a Wright...

Work is Recipe of Ruth Law
By Ruth Law
Will women make good in aviation? The question has been asked so many times, I suppose because I am a woman and an aviatrix. People think I should be able to answer that question better than any one else. How many times have you been asked if women will make good in your line of endeavor? Can you answer the question fairly? I can't. Don't you begin to think at once of the seemingly insurmountable difficulties that you were able to overcome just by a stroke of 

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Ruth Law.

luck? Of the hardships that you put up with before you knew success? Of the disappointments and the steady plugging required to get on top?
I think of these things when a girl comes for advice on  aviation as a profession. I think of how easy it would have been for me to fail and I am about to advise her not to try flying, even as you have perhaps advised some novice not to enter your profession. Then I realize that perhaps this or that girl is capable and willing to work just as hard as I did. What one woman can do there are bound to be other women who can do the same thing. What right have I to discourage them, even if I do know that learning - really learning to fly from the inside out - is a tough job for a woman. But I loved it and liking a thing goes a long way toward making it successful.
In the early days of flying when I couldn't afford the best mechanics and even the best were none too good, I realized the importance of learning to overhaul my own motor, to set up or take apart the airplane, to make my own repairs. Even now it isn't safe to pilot your own airplane unless you thoroughly know the mechanical working of the machine. Haven't you often heard an auto go chug-kerchug-chug down the street with the cylinder missing fire, the driver apparently oblivious of any defects in the performance of the machinery. You can get by with that sort of thing in an automobile but not in an airplane. I...

T... [[line cutoff]] ...TAR, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1918.
RUTH LAW WOULD TRY FLIGHT ACROSS OCEAN
American Aviatrix Arrives in the City to Race Auto and Do Stunts.
SHE LOVES FLYING
While Racing She Travels Just Few Feet Over Head of Chauffeur in Auto.
"I have always wanted to come to Toronto, because I understand that it is a real flying city," said Miss Ruth Law, pioneer American aviatrix, who arrived in the city this morning from New York, and will fly a race with an automobile here on Saturday.
Miss Law commenced flying in 1912. "I used to fly in an old Wright machine with a propeller on each side of me, but we have gone a long way since then. Now I fly a Curtis exhibition machine, which I have brought with me. I do exhibition stunts on it," she said.
"This little gold wing which you see was given to me in Paris, where I was flying between January and April last year. They would not let me go anywhere near the front, but they did give me this war dog." Miss Law has with her a French sheepdog, which is fully trained in trench warfare, and was employed on listening posts in No Man's Land in the war.
"I am very interested in the mail delivery between Montreal and Toronto, and I think in the future mail will be regularly delivered in this way. The service between New York and Washington has not lost a single day yet."
"What do you think of the proposal to fly over the Atlantic? Do you think that it will be a successful venture?" asked The Star. "Oh, yes, it will be sure to succeed if the proper precautions are taken. I would not like to try anything foolhardy such as depending on a favorable wind, but I would not mind trying the flight myself if I had a machine which was built for the purpose and carried enough fuel to make me independent of the weather," she replied.
Speaking of long-distance flying, Miss Law remarked that her flight of 950 miles from Chicago to New York, which is still the American record for 950 miles, she said that for the transatlantic flight a landing raft in mid-ocean appeared to her a possible solution of the difficulty.
"They say that they cannot do that, though,' she remarked. "But would it not be terrible if the aviator could not find it? The wind and the tides and everything might make this very difficult."
In regard to her race against an automobile she said that if she were flying the machine which she used in France, there would be no difficulty at all. That machine went at 140 miles an hour, but her own exhibition plane can do but eighty. "Sometimes I win and sometimes the car wins. It all depends on the weather and the "bumbs." If the day is calm I can usually win," she said. "I fly just a few feet over the driver's head and am disqualified if I rise too high."
"I have been flying now for seven summers and I love it. I think there is no sport like being in the air and I don't think that I could live without it now."
Miss Law was dressed in an aviator, costume and wore on her head a smart cap similar to those worn by the men of the Royal Air Force. Much of her attention was taken up with her dog "Poilu" who understood only French when she first got him but who understand English now. "He just had to learn because I do not speak French at all," she said.
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AUTOMOBILE SPEED FANS STORM FAIR GROUNDS FOR BIG EVENT
Kings of Motor Racing World Meet to Contest Laurels
MISS RUTH LAW IN AERIAL STUNTS
Automobile speed fans literally stormed the Exhibition grand stand this afternoon for the automobile races of the International Motor Contest Association at the local mile track, under the auspices of the Aportsmen's Patriotic Association.
The event was something unique in the annals of sport in Toronto, and the people turned out in thousands to see the barn-storming speed kings in action, with Miss Ruth Law, the famous aviatrix, performing her overhead stunts as an added attraction.
The morning's shower helped rather than detracted from the success of the races from a sporting standpoint, for the track was in excellent condition when the first race was called. In fact, before the arrival of the miniature cloudburst this morning the officials were seriously considering watering the track with fire hose in order to lay the dust
Officials on Track.
The referee of the races was Col. H. C. Bickford, general officer commanding Military District No. 2, who was aided by Capt. Lou Scholes as starter and P. J. Mulqueen, Fred Lyonde, and James Norris as judges. Robert Falconer, Charles Soady, and James Murphy as timers, W. A. Hewett as representative of the Sportsmen's Patriotic Association,. W. M. Gladish as announcer, and others.
Exactly at 3 o'clock the convalescent soldiers at local hospitals paraded on the track in their blue and khaki uniforms, and were greeted by a cheer from the crowded stand.
There were eight events on the card, the first being a three-mile match race, between Louis Disbrow and Gaston Chevrolet.
A happy feature of the meet was the presence of hundreds of disabled Canadian warriors, who were the guests of the Sportsmen's Patriotic Association, and a number of the French "Blue Devils."

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Transcription Notes:
"Ruth Law, Famous Flyer, Here" blurb includes a full-body photo of Law, clad in her flight-suit and several medals, at the controls of an airplane. "Work is Recipe of Ruth Law" blurb includes a photo portrait of Law in an aviation cap, goggles, and a sailor's neckerchief, grinning and looking to her right, away from the camera.