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Fliers from Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Williams, and the University will this afternoon compete for supremacy in the air when "The College Flying Day" opens at Mineola with a 100-mile cross-country race. E. H. Kelton, Occ., captain of the University fliers, and D. Gregg, 4 E.S., are entered by the Aeronautical Society in this race, the first of the six events on the program...
...Flying Day for Reserve Officers to be held Friday afternoon at Mineola, Long Island, has been announced. The choice comes as the result of the trials held at the Army Flying Field in Framingham by Lieutenant-Colonel Drennan. The team is made up as follows: First Lieutenant E. H. Kelton, Occ.; First Lieutenant R. Blynn Varnum, Unc.; First Lieutenant D. Gregg, 4ES.; First Lieutenant J. B. Garver, 1L.; Second Lieutenant L. T. Lanman '20, Second Lieutenant R. Tuckerman '20. All of these officers served as pilots during the war, either in flying fields in the country or in France...
There are six events on the schedule Friday afternoon, all of which are designed to test above all the proficiency of the fliers. The events and the men entered in them follow: 100-mile cross-country race, Kelton, Gregg; acrobatic and manoeuvring, Varnum; landing to a mark, Lanman; alert competition, Garver; altitude flight, Tuckerman; manoeuvres, Varnum. At a meeting of the Intercollegiate Flying Association Saturday prizes will be awarded the winners...
...Kelton, Occ., was yesterday chosen to be captain of the University fliers who are to be entered in the College Flying Day at Mineola, L. I., next Friday. During the war Kelton was a pilot attached to the 185th Squadron of the American Expeditionary Forces. He will fly in the 100-mile cross-country race which is one of the six events on the schedule. L. T. Lanman '20 will also be on the team, flying in the take-off and landing event. The third member of the team chosen yesterday was R. Blinn Varnum '21, who will enter...
...there are over 150 qualified pilots in the University, the competition for the six places will be extremely close. R. B. Varnum Unc., E. H. Kelton '20, T. G. Ames '20, and C. R. Steedman '20, are airmen who are expected to stand well in the competition. No officers of the Aeronautical Society will race...