| Show 1 1 I J I ONLY SIX HAD THE F t 1 NECESSARY AR t NER NERVE VE VEt f i it t Fine tRine Rain Kept Most of the thet i Aviators Out of Contest at ati atI t I i 1 i New York Yorki I NO RECORDS WERE BROKEN f if I I I Claude Q t e Gr the English Englishman J I t map man Took First Ii t Place in int t 1 f Jop Distance t I I I twY tw 2 Claude Ora Ham Whit the Englishman took 4 first place to In the distance contest and andIn 4 In Ift the Ui U oa of at duration at the tha aviation meet at Belmont k an American Hone Horsey of e Wright team soaring highest Into the u scudding E mist inlet atM and another Amer American ican lian John B of ot Chicago i i t I wu W the only on I who cared to toI I take uti j a twentymile cross crossI I I country night into the teeth of the 11 wind and anti Ith the tha fog tog so 50 SO thick that 1 he cock u i v et 0 the ground after atter he hero roe ro 1 feet teft t Mei ain flight was WAil a second dem demonstration r t i both hl own of the fact mat tRat an aIrman like Ilka a seaman sea can cani cant ft t i I ste ateer r by h without regard to toi 1 the time of ot day or night foul toul weather i t i or fair fait Aa As II on his trip from Paris to toi i h he steered wholly by com corn comIn comi i va pa f 1 In point ot of tact fact as ob observed obi I I i served covered probably three miles snore more than the course OUlI although he Is IB isS S t not credited with the lS C No 0 Broken i I No record were ere broken today It Itt t waa wes tnt triumph to fly 6 at all in ina Ina 9 a persistent persi fine Ane rain driven by bf a ast steady st twelvemile MIlt east wind Only t I air lix of ot the t twentynine aviators at the I park attempted to toi fly y yI i In a steady ady Far Farman Fart FarI t I san man n keeping kE close elOCH to the pound ground and cutting the corners earners with workmanlike precision piled up twenty twenty l ty tJ lap laps In two to hours flying C fr tor dW ne only Be Ik was waR just two hours in th ih air and the official otnel acer scorer r rt 4 t er era en credited him with Att tty kilometers I miles for each hour hourI t I was a Dd with fourteen taps laps for tor the t e fir firt t hour hoW and fifteen for forthe forthe forthe the second II respectively 2171 and miles mibs He started late sate and al aI although although t though tho he h gained In the straightaways I he loat o at nt th tho t r and in the first hour was Yo wa penalized four tour laps lap for cut cutting cutt t r ting hag corn i 4 inside the pylons Ur 11 Wild I Il l None on of if Ue tl It Wright tem team tried for tor I distance and Johnstone both j went up for altitude attitude but hut Johnstone r I had engine trouble and Hoxsey Hox ey evi eJ evidently dently found the currents up above the ther r r fog tog too wild for tor he lie quickly settled I 1 I from a height of or 7 74 U feet teet to mere more modest levels level Ely of the Cantles team i c J abw also tried his I jck ick at height and took toot tooti i second place for tor the first hour with 4 4 feet Hesey tried it again in the second hour hout and did worse fe feet tet t this time Ume COURt Count da do Leasers Lesseps made feet feat J 1 Armstrong Drexel 19 feet teet and 1 Bly on another hr trial da OS feet None n of them liked It much up above In the main it was as a contest be between between between tween the monoplane and the biplane with the monoplane the and the biplane the steadier None one of or the gnome revolving engines missed once during the day whereas the American vertical and oblique thrust four and engines e were all more or less troubled with faulty Ignition The altitude distance e and duration figures made today entitle the first second and third place men to 10 o dally daIly cash prizes and will count in the tho per percentage percentage Cen distribution of or the profits at atthe atthe atthe the end of at the nine days meet |
