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Show and four and thr onrt-hur,dretl'hai Hfiondi. White made extra lapi so a- to provld.- for pcmltlei whbb mlicbt have be-a lmpo.v-il d'jrior L'm ride. White covepfd hnlf the conro In 31 : 13.4. Iln pas-d hia thirteenth l.ir In 40:1.G7, hU average time up ( to that periol bf-ln;; a uCU a mliuKv , He t jrne1 his llth lap in 4t;:i:.2.' and i j LU 1'Uh 1n 45:11.H. L- LCanr flniib- I ed Tjlt elKhth Ia:. In 22:12. .0. i-lower j tint than that made by Whue. ' The Fr iiCh alator. hoeer. I"-- j KJtn ti rut his crctTs better and tan Cit;irjjr clo-o to a world's record. II-paafr.d II-paafr.d utoth lap in 2H.01 and nm- I tl cued t" make fa.-t tlrr.". When l? 1 Mlane was on the 2'h ar) he met I with an accident that put him ut of 1 the race. LcMni: control, he ran Into a telf fihone y.de and his machine was wrecked li:anc wa t'ke:i to a lio-pital but his hurts confined o slight cuts on th face. I Dlanc'n J fat time. It M thought hy many, would have won him tt-.t. Gordon Ivn- ! nett trophy. 1 1.4 time for th l'jth ! lap wan ."2:43.71. Ojrtllvlo, the sec-ocl sec-ocl niember of the Kni?l!0i team o Ftart, wa early out of th- rac-. The ; niejn for hH defo-nt wa not at onci- apparent. Americans Hopeful. New York, Oct. 2. Today, the b', 1 day of the International aviation meet 1 nt lielmor.r I'ark was 0 bk' in the nilnd of the ofildnls that the op'-n- I In; hoir was scheJu'vd for c'cloi k In tho momlnc. In th- morn-j In? th- airmen and spectator! alike j rr-nter on tb content for the Int-'-r-natloinl trophy and the chuncc of j the various entr.''s were crlcula'ed j &h carefully as were ever tboce of j tiny card of thorourhbreds entire! for i the futur'ty or the P.iookiyn handicap, j The crowd, hopeful of American vie- I 'cry. picked Walter ESrooUni In tho Wrkht "Baby Grand" as IU favorite, i re-ardlrn: l- Elanc of tb.' French ! t-am and Grahame-Whlte of the Knc- I llihnien as the mocl formidable contenders. con-tenders. I. HIaiic and Grahame- j White wire toth with It''rlot mono- planes, ! Ulanc'a b inp a'raclnl nio.jid of KK)-horae joer. Th Fr nchii'.an yrtterday covered one round of the phort cour?'-, l 5 mllei i !n l minute and 20 secondH, tho mo.-t (Continue PJl Pne Six.) i La Blanc Strikes a Tree While Making j Record Time j Belmont Park. N. Y.. Oft. 2' T'n-rs T'n-rs an aviator more daring and skll-f skll-f il than Claude Graliatao-vS'hlti can prove he I a worthy today, tho Gordon Bennett lEteraAUotai fpe.-d trophy will pas f'ut of Arut-ri,A to rout in F.r.gl'h hands. The pick of the French t Lall-'i: i;ers and American defenders are 1 the hospital and tho fat.te.-t time for the cure Is Graliam White's by a large margin. 'pnxAlua of Uje Wright, team lo't roatrol of hH machine 20o feet ui und shot to the canh. whirling nl ever ej.d at terrJCe speed. Ill-, taa-fblr.e taa-fblr.e Is a wrvck inl the WrhLs are out of the oont-st for tfood. lyMlauc, tin- ch&'upln of the French team, wa tossc-d frmi his oarse In a guAt of wind, cut Lis machine ma-chine In two galnt a telegraph pole and was hurled to th ground. Both Bri-okl'i and I-Blajic were ru.-hl to te field hospital, atid & n-a--urlng na'"ujent a- to their condition wa.s ten out by tho management, l,at-hain. In Lis lCHMiorepowrr Antoinette. An-toinette. t"t such a fright when the wind almost blew him Into the crowd that be quit precipitately in the jif (tenth round. Tho tips A the, great wligs cttrart cot ten fe-t from the heiJs of the people who lined the turn Icto tb fax itretch. As the bjcklcg aeroplaxo btarted toward thf-m, a cry of terror went up. Bnk-Jrw Bnk-Jrw '.Jigel dow-Q rn front of the grand hUnd with a crank that cr-uld b.i heHrd half a rrdle away, ka his blplan shot d.mnward. the tail lifted higher and higher In th air until It flnnlly swept ' hrojnd In a full half clrcb and banged bottom tipwanJs on tLo ' irf. I The crowd feared that Urookina has been pinned undiarneafh his engine but ;t was mwin E-n that the tnotor i v had dun to Its bed, for the prf'l"-l ; ler nas till churning furiously, lk- glng up bll of turf and earth, whlc'i ; flew about the wreck In a shower, j Broikms wormed hU way out from tinder th collapsed framework anil 'agered for about 20 foet, holding Ms brad In his hands as If In terrlbl pain. Thn he tottered and fell. An autoir.ob le u driven to bis fide. He ..was picked up and rushed to the field "hospital. There It won fald later tha he bad no broken bones, and Fu far :ov (oiib be lcarmd no Internal In- j.rl,-. I Blanc has three ugly scratches cro.-n his face nnd on the side of his lead, but aldo from brules be Is nrt f'thrTltie injured and 1 able t hobble about. So gTent was l-Plane l-Plane .! ped, driven by his II rv Under Un-der P'U horsepower motor that v.h'ii he ururk he r.ot only cnt his plam-s In Un, but f napped off the teWgrapS pole as If it had been a toothpick. 1 I Ilelmont Park. Oct. 29 Two con-t. con-t. M nts Alfred ! Blanc 01 the 1Y. tuh team and Walter S. Brooklns j of th.- American team were Injured l j ihe wrecking of their aeroplanes hortlv after Ue nrt today of O10 j race for the Jame Gordon Bennett I 'H. In thu Jnlrntlonal event of the 10 replant me't hold here. N"i'her s.n to-rlously Injnresi. "la ide Grahame-Whlte of tie Fn-1'i-h teatn. Covered the court of CM miles, or 20 times around the Belmont rwe, In one hour, otin mliiute ati.l - I I "ton Is, flying In a northwest wind tha' varied from tea to fifteen mlN-A ! 11 ho jr. Meinnder Oglllvle of the Knull.ui enni ecsayi'd the flight but give ir) after covrlur several lap". At 11: 00 o'clock none -f the other elu-1i.!,. rontetantn hail started, evl-d evl-d fitly prefrrlnr to nvralt mlld'T airs. While was the first of the compe'1-t compe'1-t rs in j-t oav. f(l!e ro 'd te .trilr.,: line at S:2').42. He fbw at the level of nbout 1" (fit and was mvUng a mile a minute m he cro-h.-d the mark The rule irovlde that m trts i!iy bo made nt any time a'ler 1 .s :u o'clock. n aviator once sianlng te.t to be allowed to descend tor an- ' other trial. Contestant mu-t finish l-fiT p. m. ' e 1 - v .e. '. in. 1 Faeh contentant must fir tw-n'y j U: o.er the long courn-, it toial of Z n.llep. eirie utart only Is uliowed providing the aviators rroe -I the, s'arllng I'ne. "Ihe fitrnn'- w.r-- Aarican tenm: "Waiter Brooklns! (': horvpow.r Wrlrhti. C. K , , Hvin'.lvn (llo-K') Hac.lllonian 1 : J . j rm'ront Dreirl t r,o hors. jowir' 1 Pleilot Siit.uMtu", Mm, Mo! -ant and I lolIU ) , ; KrurUml: Claude Graham Whit.- ' ' b .r... power B'trloti; .'.im. Rid-by Rid-by l'-be.m i,.-r Blerlotl; Aletan-j Aletan-j J'-r I'cliMe (4 cylinder Wright r.ou Prim: Alfred BUnc (l"l..-r--! l"or of 5Lcr. roer BL-rlo ; Hu-"l Hu-"l ' ert U-.tfcaru, K-ohors power Anton- j nette ) I j Whit- rrado hi, fir.t round In ?13 i ri r "', rrU,t r;..d w.i lii fn.nl 1 j .f t,e stand over which he w.v drl.'t- I I ly ttp DcrthvrM'rriv wind. Il- ' .e; t g-!ng up to vold th.. dm.-. r. u" j :jtti and pa.'.l t,a i,H r,,,,r j i n 1, 2 1. ' -"' I'i-tnc dec lde.l to u... I I, Bl.-n.jt o.r or.i. .ftrr a iral ar.rjnd the i . jre at l.iir rxl-lLk- si-r-d, ta".-d j -ftl.lillT and n d.. th,. f.. Tlr of I : r.u 1 1 ftrt row, i m, nt. j I '' '1--1 wa Cib-MUvd a, 7,, ,,)e ,.; i-n to-ir. a re world's rro-i ' , W-.n "A life had f.r.h.-1 tu M-vm-i J ft l.i.i h' t:ni.- .- taken a," 22 '.'' ' h 5l.t- r, i!r!'!i-i or-,tte M.i.l bT rri.t'l. th.lr hoi ,i;rl;l t;,. J r.J ilr,-)!, at t,i4 . r K'vr-r a. from li t., ;i a!4 ' f'i t J'ia-i'1er t'o'.ilc. r:.,. i fi!,- I'n-''v-.i t' . - tM-.l r. n: .uV 'rt He d-oie th tvl ,.'-r ''r',-:.' I)(!.v.n ,Uid n !. 1 -T ' 't'i In 3 21 K2 arid 1 --vj-d in "-ri tnr Y:t t- rir!v.,l p, '),e ''"" '1 ti:..c if cae L"i: oce niGjte 3 I ALR-MEN IN ACCIDENT. (Continued from Page One.) phenomenal time so far made over this distance at Belmont Park. I The entrants, in the international I race are as follows: Amerla Walter Brookins (Wright) sixty horse power iacer. Charles K. Hamilton (110-borse power Hamiltoniau). J. Armsctroug Drexcl (50-horse power Blerlot.) England Claude Grahamc-White (50-horse power Bleiiot.) James Radley (50-horse power ; Blcrlot.) Alexander Ogilvio (10-horse power, ! Wright.) France Alfred Ie Blanc (100 horse' power Bleriot racer.) I Hubert Latham (100 horse power Anlionttte.) The French team was reduced to two members by yesterday by the announcement an-nouncement that neither Auburn nor I Simon would enter. Both men were informed by J. C. McCoy, chairman of the aviation committee com-mittee that it they competed they would forfeit their guarantees, which w ill be given I hem on the stipulation that they would not enter the cup rac?. Besides the big race and the grand ; altitude event at 4 o'clock this after- noon two Important events the Mlche-lln Mlche-lln cup and the scientific American ' trophy races were also scheduled to , begin any time after S:.10 o'clock Tho MIchelin trophy in awarded at the end of each year to the aviator who at a meeting during the year shall have made the longest flight on a closed circuit without touching the ground. A prize of $1,000 in cash goes J with the trophy. To win the Miche-I Miche-I Hn prize this year it is necessary for a flier to exceed 197 miles, the dis-I dis-I tance made on September 13, last, Iat Bordeaux by Emllo Auburn. The Scientific Americau trophy goes to the aviator who, during thin year. I makes the longest cross-country 1 flight. I |