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The Women's Patriotic Aerial League offered a silver trophy (shown in the photograph here) and L1000 for a flight across the Atlantic. Victoria Woodhull (Mrs. Martin) put up the prize--is she one of the women pictured?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Woodhull She would have been 75+ in 1914. Corbis has a picture of her and her sister dated "1910s" www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/IH176261.html Both women in the front of the Corbis picture are much skinnier than the women on the left in this picture. An obituary, at www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0923.html , doe not include the "Patriotic" in the league's name.

Yeah, I think you're right. Ah well. Maybe her daughter Zula Woodhull is in there. ;) (I have four or five biographies of Woodhull on my office shelf right here, but only one of them has a later-life photo of VCW, and it wouldn't have been as late as the 1910s.)

Definitely looks like the same trophy as in this photo: books.google.com/books?id=qaIAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA691&l...

New York Times story from February 5, 1914, says that announcement of the $5,000 prize was made in London on February 4: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C00E5D71F3BE6... I recently read about Woodhull in Barbara Goldsmith's book, "Other Powers." It's an amazing story. Goldsmith, Barbara. Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull. New York: Harper Perennial, 1998,

Pat Maloney played one season (1912) for the New York Highlanders. www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=malonpa01

Patrick Maloney was my grandfather..... I did not grow up around him, and I was in high school when I found out that he had played pro baseball..... When I enlisted in the US Air Force in 1967, my grandfather (Pat Maloney) told me that wounds he received; plusbeing gassed by the Germans in WW1, ended all hope of ever playing major league baseball again......

" Lancelot Beaumont "Lance" Todd (1874–1942) was a New Zealand-born rugby league footballer and manager of the early 20th century. As a player he represented his country in 1907 and 1908 and played in England for the Wigan and Dewsbury clubs. He later became the manager at Salford and led the club to three League Championships and one Challenge Cup victory. " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Todd From the wiki article, I think he was at Wigan from 1908-14, when he transferred to Dewsbury. Also "In 1933, as well his work at Salford, he became the Rugby League commentator for BBC Radio."

More about Lance Todd and the Trophy named in his memory - blog.salfordredsheritage.org.uk/post/9996951465/lance-tod...

Wondering just how personal is the signature "Faithfully yours" ? 'Yours faithfully' is or was the standard business sign-off, but somehow this seems more intimate.