FLYING CLUB PILOTS TO COMPETE IN AIR RACES AT NEW YORK THIS JUNE

Three pilots from the Harvard Flying Club will enter the intercollegiate air races at Mitchell Field sponsored by the National Aeronautical Association next June, according to an announcement made last night by W. M. Bump '28 president of the Club. The entrants will be in competition for $5,000 in cash prizes and trophies donated by Grover C. Loening, designer of the Loening amphibian plane.

The announcement says that Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, C. O. Whitney, R. L. Brooks, H. P. Davison, and Thomas Hitchcock Jr., will act as judges of the contest.

Bump has been cooperating during the last two months with Mr. Loening in an effort to arouse interest in the competition throughout the country. He stated positively last night that Harvard would be represented and that the subject of choosing the entrants would be discussed at the annual meeting which will take place in the near future.

Plans for the contest state that each college flying club will be allowed to enter one plane and three pilots. The planes will be of a standard speed and power class which will be determined later.

Final details of the race are to be determined at a meeting of representatives of the Aeronautical Association, which is sponsoring it, and the various college flying groups, to be held in New York on April 9.

Prizes will be awarded on the basis of individual and team competition. A trophy cup and medals will be awarded to the winning pilots and cash prizes, payable to the clubs, of $500, $300, and $200, will be awarded to the three institutions having the highest scores.