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Show Tthe chute. First I had to take a header with the prfwer off, and when the wind began to carry me out of control I would point up n bit, get a little headway, run level for a hundred hun-dred yards and then dip ngiln. Scared After Trip. I was not much scared uutil I got down to earth and saw what a gale there was. Then I was frightened fright-ened for fair. The only spot I could find to land in was a little patch not three times bigger across than the stretch of my wings from tip to tip. "Whllo I was tossing pennies with myself the wind turned me clean around and landed me front end backwards, back-wards, but that was just what aved me. "If I had come down head first the wind would have picked ine up, tipped nie over and smashed mo to pieces." Select American Team. What fluttered the hangars far more than a new record or than Johnstone's narrative was the selection selec-tion by the Aero Club of America j of an American team to defend the Gordon Bennett International speed , trophy. It had been Intended to narrow nar-row the choice by elimination trials, but windy weather forbade, nnd when the limit named under the International Interna-tional rule for the try of a team approached It was necessary to substitute sub-stitute an election. Hamilton, with his 110. hore power ILaralltonlan; Dract, with a 50 horse power Blerl-ot, Blerl-ot, and Brookin3, in the new Wright racer, were named. Defenders of the Cup. Curtlss, who brought the cup to this country, thus has no part in de-lending de-lending It. and his new racer remained remain-ed untried. It and other dark horses will have a chance to show what thc-y can do in the speed trials, which carry prizes of $3,000 for first place and $1,000 for second place. There was some chagrin over this outcome, but on the whole the American Am-erican aviators acquiesced In the action ac-tion of the aero club and took Its ceclslon as a necessity. The American Amer-ican substitutes are Mars of the Curtlss Cur-tlss team. Molsan with a Blerlot, and Hoxsey of the Wright team. The French Team. The French team consists of Ivi-tham Ivi-tham with a 100 horse power Antoinette, An-toinette, Leblanc with a 100 horse power Rleriot, Aubrnn with a GO horse power Blerlot, and Simon and Barrier, each with a f0 horse power pow-er Blerlot, for substitutes. For Great Britain. Orahnme White with a 100 horse power Blerlot. Rad-ley Rad-ley with a f.O horse power Blerlot, and the team with Ogihie of the Wright company of Great Britain, and McArdle In a Bleriot as the substitutes sub-stitutes against the high power foreign for-eign ii)oiin.l.ines America has but one machine nf equal power. Hamilton's Hamil-ton's 110 horse power biplane, but the new Wright racer has been clocked clock-ed in exceptionally fast time, and so good a Judge as Radley thinks it ought to retain the cup by virtue of its superior steadiness In banking the curves. There was iu Might to the Statue Stat-ue of Liberty today because the wind was too high. Moisant and He Les-fcops Les-fcops both tried, but neither finished. finish-ed. Moisam took up Fred Thompson, Thomp-son, a theatrical manager, and left him four miles away In a cabbage patch. .Thompson carib-d a gold elephant ele-phant for a watch charm. Wind Too Much for Butterfly. "That elephant was too much for tL.e," explained Moisnut. Count De Lessepy took up his brother and landed unhurt in Garden Gar-den City. He had engine trouble. ' Audemar, one of the two men in the worid who dares to drive a tinq Demoiselle, took h!s butterfly out In too strong a wind and was caii-fcbied caii-fcbied In attempting to land from a height of not more than ten feet he struck the earth with his iront wheels, bounced into the air and ended by turning a somersault. For a moment the machine sto?, tail uppermost on the tip of its "nose and then turneJ slowly over on its back. As the crowd jumped to its feet in horror Audemar leaped out unhurt. un-hurt. He broke the propeller of bis machine, smashed the ribs of one wing and threw his engine out ol true, but the repairs will not be expensive. The Liberty flight is still open tomorrow to-morrow and Mights for the Gordon Bennett cup may begin at anv time alt-M- S:C0 a m First hourly distance, won by Latham La-tham (Antoinette , four laps; time. II minutes. 25 seconds; second. Aude. mai3 ( Demonifclle). one lap. two minutes. min-utes. 21 3 seconds; third, lessens (Bleriot), one lap, two minutes, 30.33 seconds. Second hourly distance Won. hv Latham (Antoinette), 12 laps, forty minutes, "I I seconds; penalized thro? laps for fouling pvlon, no second or third. First hourly altitude Won by Hoxsey Hox-sey ( Wright). 0 703 feet; second. Par-nuibe Par-nuibe (Wright). 2.S10 feet, no third. Second hourly alt'Mide Won by Parmalee (Wright), Z,GU) feet; second, sec-ond, Drcxcl (Blerlot), 3.210 feet, no third. Yesterday's second hourh altitude Won by Johnstone (Wright). S.471 feet; new American record; second. Hoxsey (Wright), C.907 feet; no third Totalization of duration for the dav Won by Hoxsey (Wright), one hour, G7 minutes, 33.25 seconds; second, Parmalee (Wright), one hour. 10 minutes. min-utes. 2" 1 seconds; third. Latham (Antoinette), (An-toinette), one hour, 11 minutes, 0.C seconds. Grand totalization of distance for the meet (uot including today). Gra-hame-White. fifi laps; Latham 54; Au-brun, Au-brun, -17; Hoxsey, 39: Johnstone, 39; Drexcl, 3S; Molsant. 2S; Mrs, 12; Mc-Curdy. Mc-Curdy. 12; Leblanc. 3; Brooklns, 3. Radley. 2. Totalization of durition (not including includ-ing today and not Including yesterday's altitude flights by Hoxsey and Johnstone, John-stone, which will probably be figured in the grand-total fur the meet at one hour each) Grnhame-Wbltc. 4 houra, 37 minutes. 5.80 seconds; Hoxsey. 4 hours, 31 minutes 4S.0 seconds: Johnstone. John-stone. 3 hours. 47 minutes, 44.4 seconds; sec-onds; Latham, 2 hours. 59 minutes, 10.fi seconds; Molsant. 1 hour, 42 minutes, min-utes, 10.S seconds; Auhrum 1 hour, 25 minutes. I1.15 seconds: Drexcl, 1 hour, 22 minutes. 17 seconds; De Lessens, Les-sens, 1 hour, 17 minutes, IS. 4 seconds All others under one hour. Fastest four round flight (10 klloni- etres) of the meet, not Including todav Aubrun (Brcliot). 5 minutes. GO. 23 ! seconds; Drexel ( Blerlot , 6 minutes. 1 50 seconds; Simon. 7 m'nutes. 23.3 seconds; sec-onds; McCurdy (Curtlss), 7 minutes, 19 25 seconds. 1 Standing of the prize winners: Hoxsey (Wright), first in hourly al-tftudo, al-tftudo, $250; rst In dally duration' ?5iii; second iu second hourly altitude alti-tude yesterday $100; total winning-'yesterday winning-'yesterday and' todav, $Sr'. previous winnings, $l$-,.v total winnings, $2,-075. JOHNSTONE MAKES ANOTHER RECORD NEW YORK, Oct. 2$. The crowd at I'.elmont Park today was all for Ralph Johnstone when, from Middle Island Village, L. 1., 55 miles off the course, he brought back a new American Am-erican record of S.471 feet for alti-ti:dei alti-ti:dei the second he has added to the string In tbe international aviation avia-tion meet. But the interest of the aviators was centered on the action of the Aero Club of America, which after a midnight session chose Hamilton, Drexel and Brooklns early this morning morn-ing to deieud the Gordon Benuelt international in-ternational speed trophy. Audemars in Accident. Andemars in a Demoiselle suffer-' suffer-' cd the first accident of the tournament tourna-ment today, but came off with no hurt himself and only minor dam ages to his machine. I Just before the passenger-carrying cross country race was started at 1 o'clock this afternoon a mole In the paling sky was seen far to the southeast. south-east. It was Johnstone, icappearing just where he had vanished in yesterday's yes-terday's gale. He circled the field and settled In front of the judges' stand, while the grand stand waved, cheered and stamped. Johnstone's Close Call; "Tell you what, boys." Johnstone said when -he lauded, "it was Just the mercy of Providence that saved my neck. When I thought I was within touching distance fjf the new world's record I kind of forgot all about the wind and began to reach out for more height. Then I suddenly sudden-ly said to myself. 'Young man, you better sec how much gas you have got.' "It's the truth, I had just enough to turn over the two propellers. When I kept her nose up the Juice ran dowu Ir.to the engine and she coughed. The minute I pointed down I loxt my fuel and she began to miss. 'It was just about like shooting |
