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12. Pilots entering the Bendix Trophy Race must be qualified to fly the type of airplane they have entered and must be qualified in the type of cross-country flying in-volved. In case of question on eligibility qualifications, final decision rests with the Contest Committee for the Bendix Race. This Committee reserves the right to require any pilot to prov he is qualified to fly the airplane he has entered under the conditions required by the Race.

13. Entrants 9airplane owners not holding a National Aeronautic Association Sporting License for their airplane should procure this from the National Aeronautic Associ-ation, Dupont Circle, Washington, D. C. before submitting entry. In case the pilot is the entrant, his pilot Sporting license will suffice for both himself and his airplane, ex-cept that he must file with the National Aeronautic Asso-ciation an airplane owner's registration form which will be supplied upon request. An insert for the pilot's Sporting License will then be supplied indication sports registraion of his airplane.

E-ENTIRIES AND ENTRY FEES

1. Entries must be made on the official entry blanks supplied by the Contest Committee of the National Air Races. Closing date for all entries will be midnight, Ausgust 15, 1937. Postmark on envelope will be considered official time of mailing.

2. On entry blanks filed before closing date, midnight August 15th, 1937, an entry fee of $10.00 for each air-plane is required. This will cover all races any one airplane is eligible for. Entry fee will not be returned.

3. Pilots entering an airplane after the closing date must pay an entry fee of $25.00 for each airplane they enter-none of which will be returned.

4. No entry will be accepted later than 24 hours before a race is scheduled to be run. Under no circumstances will an airplane be permitted to start in a race unless it has been qualified.

5. In all closed course races where there are less than six entrants in the class on the starting line and ready to start, the Contest Committee reserve the right to cancel that race and no prize will be awarded. However, should the Contest Committee decide to run a race where there are less than six entrants on the line ready to start, only the same number of prizes that there are airplanes in the race, will be paid. No race will be run with less than four starters.

6. An entry which contains a false statement shall be considered null and void and the entry fee shall be for-feited.

7. In case an entrant will not personally pilot the air-plane entered, the name of the pilot and his license number must be filled out in entry blank.

8. The women's race will be limited to eight entries. Entries for this event will close on August 15th 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.

9. Entry blanks will not be officially accepted by the Contest Committee unless complete information specified thereon, is given. The Contest Committee reserve the right to accept or reject all entries.

NOTE: ALL ENTRY FEES COLLECTED AT THE 1937 NATIONAL AIR RACES WILL BE TURNED OVER TO A PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION NOW BEING FORMED BY THE NATIONAL AIR RACES OF CLEVELAND, INC. FOR THE BENEFIT OF CONTESTANTS IN NATIONAL AIR RACES STAGED BY THE NATIONAL AIR RACES OF CLEVELAND WILL RECEIVE ADDITIONAL IN-FORMATION CONCERNING THIS ASSOCIATION AT THE TIME THEIR ENTRY IS FILED FOR THE 1937 NATIONAL AIR RACES.

F-PAYMENT OF PRIZES

1. Prize money will be paid at the Pilots Meeting on the day following the race, or after an equivalent length of time, in case no protests have been filed. It protests have been filed in this period, see J-4 below.

2. There will be no duplication of prizes.

G-WOMEN'S RACES

1. The women's race will be a handicap race limited to eight airplanes, each of a maximum speed not to exceed 175 miles per hours. A special handicap committee decided upon by the Committee for Women's Contests of the National Aeronautic Association will establish a time handicap for each airplane entered. All handicaps will be ab-sorbed at the starting line. In determining handicaps, the Handicap Committee will have the right to have its test pilot or pilots fly the airplanes entered.

2. All airplanes entered in the Women's Race must make a minimum qualifying speed of 100 miles per hours over the 5-mile course.

3. No changes of any kind in an airplane or its motor will be allowed after a handicap has been established. Such special rules as the Handicapping Committee may draft, shall apply and must be observed. Violations of such rules shall be the basis for disqualification.

H-REJECTION AND EXCLUSION OF ENTRANTS

1. The Contest Committee specifically reserve the right to reject any entrant or exclude any entrant for cause, at any time, and without obligation to rejected or excluded entrant or to anyone because of rejection or ex-clusion.

2. Among grounds for rejection or exclusion will be:

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