AMERICAN AIR RACE
WIN BY FRACTION OF A
SECOND
(Received September 7, '2.10 p.m.) CLEVELAND, September 6.
After the closest finish in the history of national air races, Rudy Kling won the 24,000 dollars Thompson Trophy Race, a fraction of a second ahead of Earl Ortman. The winner averaged 256.9 miles an hour.
SPEED-BOAT CONTEST
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 12
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