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RUTH LAW-Famous aviatrice, after whom President George Bentel of the New Ascot Speedway has named the Ruth Law sweepstakes race, which she will personally start. Miss Law is here shown starting Fred Lecklider on a trial spin around the dirt track.
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LOS ANGELES
ons and Los Angeles Atheltic Club Qu
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Comes Down to Earth
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Ruth Law to Wag Flag at Ascot Speedway
Here is the famous aviatrix of Liberty Loan fame who has offered a prize for the winner of a twenty-lap affair to be run at Bentel's new course next Sunday. She is standing beside the car of Frank Lickleider.
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CHAMPIONS
AND CHANCE-
THE STORY OF THE WORLD'S
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turn without being
square between the eyes.
Undoubtedly the thriller of thrillers is the passage of Lieut. Louis James, 19 years old, from auto to airplane inf ront of the grandstand, each after
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hangs suspended by one foot, then two feet. He hangs by his teeth from the rope, and does all those unbelievable things which only a few aviators are ever born to do. This is the biggest
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crowd when she stands straight up on top of a plane while it loops the loop under the skillful piloting of Lieutenant Verne Treat, Lieutenant Treat also loops the loop at night with a
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RUTH LAW TO START SPEEDERS
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Famous Aviatrix Presents Victor of Ascot Event With Cup Sunday
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The Ruth Law Sweepstakes, titled in honor of the most famous woman flier in the world, is carded as the feature event at Ascot Speedway next Sunday afternoon. Miss Law, retired from the hazardous sport of aviation, now a resident of Beverly Hills, will not only present the winner of the twenty-laps event with a handsome silver trophy, but, garbed in the Army aviator's uniform which she wore in her flights during the Liberty Loan campaigns, will wield the starter's flag when the field, headed by Ralph De Palma, Fred Horey, Fred Lickleider, Arthur Davidson and other noted pilots, is sent away. A $5000 cash purse also will be distributed among the first five to finish.
Nine events are on Sunday's program, with the one-lap Ascot Helmet Dash being the shortest and the Ruth Law Sweepstakes the longest. Four of the contests will show the motor-bike speed kings in action.
The bitter rivalry between Fred Lickleider and Fred Frame as a result of the hairline decision of the judges in the ill-fated Garbutt Stakes on Sunday being given Lickleider when 90 per cent of the crowd, not on the finishing line, thought Frame had won by an inch or so, has rolled up as big as a snowball down a mountain. Frame's backer, Harry Hooker, is out to force the Detroit star into a match race next Sunday. "Lick" is ready, but his Deusenberg eight-in-a-row is not. He drove an eight-cylinder Miller last Sunday, but hopes to have his "Deusie" in shape by Friday.
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NEW RECORD IS
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HEARN
SPEEDWAY C
B
Eddie Hearne,
nounced his mount
racing season which
way Frebruary 24,
debut on the Beverl
pion will team with
Special.
It was rumored
would drive a Fren
dianapolis in May
American mount in
24 meet on Beverly.
opening on the Due
for a time and it
that he would take
cars for the coming
was all changed whe
ant arrived in town
York and had a tall
at his apartments at
Hearne left Durant
contract in his pocket
surance of one of the
ing cars in the world
ing speed year.
HARTZ ENTERS
The racing team
Durant last year w
of these cars were
Harry Hartz and are
for the February 24
classic. Another on
racers was purchased
Wonderlich, who is
the coming speed m
cars to be driven by
Durant this year are
and believed to be fa
other racer complet
ant at the last of l
When the veteran
chant captured the 19
ship Durant was so
that he decided to
new car for the 192
after the car was un
millionaire sportman
nized patron of raci
withstand the tempta
himself so the team d
with the champion
the sole wearers of
speedway colors whi
changed from cardi
to blue and silver.
MURPHY WITH
Jimmy Murphy, w
the Durant team in
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RUNNING RACES, IN ROMAN HIPPOD
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DARE DEVIL LOUIS JAMES
"ONE FOOT FROM DEATH"
RUTH LAW LAYS A WING OF PLANE ON AUTO DRIVERS HEAD
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Diving Horse and His Rider Evoke Gasps
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Auto Polo Games Expected to Provide Many Exciting Spills.
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Fireworks Display Perhaps Most Popular Number on the Program.
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And so it goes on the entire afternoon until they rise wearily to their feet at the end of the afternoon's entertainment, and drag their way out to some dining hall to get an early supper.
The thrill was when they climbed into the stand; it was a sort of anti-
