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3. The Women's Race, Event No. 4, will be limited to eight entries. Entries for this event will close August 15, and no entries will be accepted after this date. The first eight entries which meet the entry requirements will have priority. Postmark on envelope will be considered official time of mailing.

4. Pilots may enter Events Nos. 1 and 7 after closing date, August 15, and up to twenty-four hours before the race is scheduled to be run by paying the original $15.00 entry fee and an additional entry fee of $10.00 for each event, none of which will be returned.

H - Division of Prizes

1. There will be five prizes for each closed course race, prizes to be awarded as follows: 1st place 45%, 2nd place - 25%; 3rd place - 15%; 4th place - 10%; 5th place - 5%. In the event there is not the required number of entrants for the race and the Contest Committee decodes to run the race, only the number of prizes that there are ships in the race will be paid.

2. Prize money will be paid at the pilots' meeting on the day following the event or after an equivalent length of time in case no protests have been filed. If protests have been filed in this period, see (L 4) below.

3. There will be no duplication of prizes.

I - Women's Race

1. The Women's Race will be a handicap event limited to eight planes, each of a maximum speed not o exceed 150 miles per hour. A special handicap committee decided upon by the Committee for Women's Contests of the National Aeronautics Association will establish a time handicap for each plane entered. All handicaps will be absorbed at the starting line. In determining handicaps, the Committee will have the right to have its test pilot or pilots fly the planes entered.

2. No changes of any kind in a plane or its engine, will be allowed after the handicap has been established. Such special rules as a handicapping committee may draft, shall apply and must be observed. Fractions of such rules shall be the basis for disqualification.

J - Rejection and Exclusion of Entrants

1. The Air Race Committee specifically reserves the right to reject any entrant or exclude any entrant for cause at any time, and without any obligation to rejected or excluded entrant or to anyone because of rejection or exclusion.

2. Among grounds for rejection or exclusion will be:

(a) Fraud in representing, by his or her entry or attempted entry, that the plane, motor or pilot is qualified to compete in that specific event when facts are otherwise.

(b) Flying over grandstands at any time.