Show FAST 3 PLANES IN DERBY REACH MINEO LA FIELD HELD Sergt Coombs American 1 Fj Flying g Under Liberty Lib Motor l Power Ter First I. I 1 Mineola X N. Y Au Aug Aue 23 23 fast fasl airplanes swooped down on on Roosevelt Roose I Ifield tonight completing the tho first field hero leg of f their round trip flight bet between Toronto and Mineola lIncola In the th thi first In International in- in tern 1 aerial derby Frank Coombs an American r flying a DH 0 with horsepower Liberty motor was the first arrival at landing handing at o'clock Just six hours hourS' time tinie he hc and eleven elc minutes from tho the started the course at on Toronto His actual l flying time hocer however however how how- ever er was wa only three hours and thirty thirty- five minutes stops having been made at Buffalo Syracuse arid and Albany If rom l Spill i n Roland famous American merican test pilot who was the tho first t flier filer to hop off ocr at Toronto despite th the tho fact that he c had previously suffered Buffered a n spill when his plane turned turtle landed at it o'clock and nd MaJ R. R M I der another American flyer who had elected to start the race raco at nl tho the Toronto Toron Toron- to nd arrived cd four Cour minutes later pave gave o a hi his time from front start to torl rl finish as ns sIx sK houry hourt and twenty eight minutes and anti Major Schroeder gave c a his as six ix hours and two twenty minutes minutes- but neither r announced their tUne time in actual flight The three fliers hope to start tho the re- re turn turI urn trip t to Toronto between noon and 1 J 1 u t cloel lock t tomorrow morrow pro provided their machines machines ma nm- chines can be given a a. through overhauling overruling over over- ruling hauling b by that thal time Cro l for A large crowd which had turned out outto outto to o greet the thc racers remained for or soy so oral eral hours after their arrival al hoping to o witness oth other r arrivals li or to get Jet word vord of the landing at Toronto of some of or the thc twenty eight planes nes which left eft hero here during durin tho the afternoon on the Toronto Mineola-Toronto le leg of oC tho the race UI Up I to o a late laic hour houi however howo no more fliers had lad put in appearance nor 1101 was an any re report rc- rc port received of oC landings t at Toronto The start from rom the Roosevelt c field end crid o of tho the route was wai scheduled for or 9 I o'clock this morning but It was o'clock before MaJ laj Gen len Charles Charle 1 T. T 1 chief of oC th the United States arm army all all' service air gave o a tho the signal that sent ent the tho plan s off oct Bad Dad weather n nc nc- nc postponement |