Show PAULHAN FAilS TO BEAT THE CUP TIME Curtiss More Fortunate Low Lowers Lowers ers His Own Record for forTen forTen Ten Lapse Laps BIG alG cROWDS AS USUAL FRANCE AND GERMANY CHAL CHA CHALLENGES LENGES Aviation Field Los Loll Angeles Cat CaL Jan you were paced In tM the center of at ata ofa a whopping big you and around you a c panorama and plain and river and mountain all painted In the vivid blUe bius and green and white of the peripatetic buzzing around you Instead of the an ancient cleat hobby horse and the wObbly swan then you would realize the sight at ML Avi Aviation atlon field today tOlay That wonderful ride that you took was not more entrancing than the sight that the blue sky gave In the main part of the program as Paulhan and and Curtiss rode round and round Fuel Tank Leaked Paulhan kept It up for tor near nearly y two hours 1 hour 58 53 minutes and 27 25 seconds to be in that time 76 miles Had he kept up the speed for fol two hours more be would have beaten Henry Farmans cup record dis distance distance tance ot of lU ms a feat which the Va Frenchman to do tomorrow Paulhan on account of n a leak leakIn In hl h fuel tank down after his eleventh lap the course He was called from the air by one of his machan who discovered that a part of the machine was out of place In their air Marathon the biplanes passed under and over oer each other many times without mishap Paulhan kept the high Hamilton rode the lower Curtiss Beats His Own Record Curtiss went out to beat his own rE ree ord for ten laps lap round the course He succeeded In doing this His time Was wan 2304 35 His fastest lap was made in Paulhan tried to beat Curtiss In this race but his time was regIstered as 2506 2505 15 President Cortland F Bishop of the Aero Club of America received a cable cablegram gram during the afternoon announcing that both Germany and France had sent nt challenges for a balloon flight for tor dura duration Von tion and altitude during 1910 France also announced that an attempt would he be made to lift the Gordon Bennett cUp Up won by Curtiss at for speed Cpr Cir Cirtiss covered 1242 miles in 1560 1550 35 Each country will enter three balloons There are eleven countries In the federa federation federation tion to be heard from Mr Bishop wilt will leave for New York at the end of the meet and the time and place for the con contests contests tests will be announced there |