Show T TI I St rt of f. f International Balloon Race Pictured I I I t f t e I Rent in American Gas Bag Caused Pilot Trouble i r l COUPE DES A AT STUTTGART J JI I I t 4 4 4 4 t 2 S S fe B BIN THE RENT IN THE BALLOON II ti 4 i TEE fm COMPETING BM READY TO The Tho photographs herewith were taken tak talc en cn at the time start of oC the tho international balloon balloon bal bal- balloon loon race for the Gordon Bennett cup cupat cupat cupat at Stuttgart tutt art Germany German Twenty balloons balloons bal bal- loons Joons competed The race was won by Maurice who vho piloted a French balloon Just before tho the start of ot the therace race raco the Ians Kansas s CIl City II met with an accident When the filling tilling of the balloon balloon bal hal loon was nearly completed it was discovered dis covered erel that there thero were rents in the envelope which rendered ascent sible aible The Germans In a a. sportsmanlike mint n l D tho the Dusseldorf II at me disposal of ot Mr 11 Watts the tile American pilot who originally arranged to pilot the Kansas City II |