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Show I' UHlffl HEIR J FOR BELMONT PARK Iiifcrnalioiial Contests Will Be Held at Famous Racing Center. ! NEW YORK, Aug. 4. With the ititcr- nntlonal, aviation meet, only two months away, a" sudden shifting of arrangements on the pari of the millionaire promoters of the event lias Just been announced here. All work on the aviation field at Garden City, where 11 was planned to hold the tournament, lias neon abandoned, and tho meet will tako place instead at lJclmont. park. Coupled with this announcement comes the information that Gago Tarbell. rucentlv appointed general manager or the meet, has withdrawn from that position posi-tion and has refused to be connected with tho proposed tournament. Friends of Mr. Tarbell say that his retirement resulted from the continued failure of tho subscribers' sub-scribers' committee of the Aero Club of America to furnish any funds with which to work; to draw up uny programme of events or to annnunco a prlzo list so that American and European aeronauts might know what tho proposed International meet held for them In the way of compensation. com-pensation. It has been declared frequently fre-quently that tho subscribers commlttco has raised $175,000 of tho ?2i".0,000 needed to finance the tournament, but Mr. Tar-I Tar-I bell's friends claim that none of this money has been paid in. I) Bclmout for President. No successor to Mr. Tarbell as general ' manager lias been appointed as yet, but It Is announced that August Belmont has been prevailed upon to accept the presidency presi-dency of the mccL The dale for the Belmont Bel-mont nark tournament will be that originally origi-nally llxcd for the Garden City meet October Oc-tober 15 to 2.1. Tho effect of the removal of the tournament tourna-ment to Belmont park will bo far-rcach-ing. According to oNpcrts. It will apparently ap-parently make impossible the holding of the only really International contest on the programme, the race for iho international interna-tional speed prize, won by Glenn 31. Cur-tiss Cur-tiss at Rhelms last year. The rules of tho International Aeronautic Federation governing contests for this trophy arc that tho eontost must be held "on a: closed clrcln having a perimeter of not less than live kilometers (.'1.1 miles)." Tho contest for ifllO is to be 100 kilometers (G2.1 miles) long, or twenty circuits of a llvc-kllomcter llvc-kllomcter "course The longest distance thai could be laid out in a closed clrclo at Belmont park is only a mile and a half and flying over it would bo hazardous for speed machines, because trees, fences and roada cut. up tho grounds. Tho subscribers' committee, in a statement state-ment regarding tho change in plan, says, however, that tho international speed competition mav be held on the Garden i-Ity field, although all the other events will be brought to Belmont park. Destiny of Park. The choice of Belmont park as a scene for aviation contests solves tho problem of the future of tho magnificent racing f grounds, built at a cost of $l,r.00.000 and I opened to thft public on May f", 1905. Willi the knell of racing In the state, tho destiny of Belmont park ha. been a matter mat-ter of considerable, speculation. The committee says that tho chango from Garden City to Belmont park was made because of the greater accessibility of tho hitler place and also because tho short time at the disposal of the pro-motors pro-motors made it doubtful whether tho necessary nec-essary grand stands and other structures could ho completed on the Garden City Hold In time for the meet, Tho selection selec-tion of Belmont park will, or course, save a largo expense, as few changes In buildings or seating facilities will be necessary. |